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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <p>Dr Wilson (Robert Burton) and Erik Engström (Sten Gester) lead an expedition to a meteor that crashed somewhere in Lapland, and that eventually turns out to be a spaceship, a spaceship that has brought a giant hairy beast to earth that does what all these giant hairy beasts seem to do: Kill.<p>Soon enough, the beast has destroyed the expedition's airplane, and with it its radio, and now they are truly cut off from the outside world - which leaves it to Erik and Doctor Wilson's niece Diane (Barbara Wilson) to go for help by ski. Yet on the way to wherever, Diane has a nasty skiing accident, and she and Erik only just make it to a rescue hut - that is attacked though by the beast. And while Erik is knocked out and buried under the rubble, only to be saved a short time later by some Lapps who also save the other expedition members, Diane makes a getaway, but is soon captured by the beast and brought to a safe place it seems, where she soon meets 3 spacemen (who have no further funcion in the story, they just meet her and are never seen again) while the beast is out to attack the next village where the members of the expedition are currently presiding. Erik notices the scarf the beast is holding is Diane's, and he and a mob of locals follow the beast to bring it down. The beast has since picked up Diane again, but drops her just in time before the mob sets fire to it and pushes it off some cliffs to its death. After that, everybody sees the alien spacecraft taking off again ...<p> <p>A 1950's giant monster film, done the Swedish way, and actually filmed in the Arctic. And that all said, the film is not very good: The story is a bit too clichéd, the interwoven lovestory between Erik and Diane seriously hampers the film's pacing, a few too many skiing scenes don't help the film's pace much either, and the monster looks rather ridiculous and seems to change in scale repeatedly. That all said, the film is on the other hand beautifully shot, and the Arctic locations are as unusual as they are breathtaking and do bring an extra value to the movie. As a whole though, the film is more of a science fiction oddity than a bona fide classic - and genre fans will have to see it for exactly that reason.<p>In 1962, schlock producer/director Jerry Warren got hold of the film, recut and redubbed it, added extra scenes and turned into <b>Invasion of the Animal People</b>. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2010"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>