Not a Hammer movie although surely the producers were inspired by The Abominable Snowman - which I didn't think had been that big a hit, but anyway we've got Hammer writer Jimmy Sangster doing the script, a TV show origin (many of Hammers early films were based on TV shows) and Snowman's star Forrest Tucker again hanging around the Alps looking into mysterious goings ons.
I saw this right after Fiend Without a Face and the movies seemed to have a fair bit in common, including it's American star, undeveloped love interest, mad scientist support actor (here played by Warren Mitchell), indistinguishable minor parts, baddie creatures that practice mind control, a climax where the creatures (here aliens from outerspace) attack the goodies in an enclosed location (in this case a cable car) and fight them off.
It doesn't make sense and there are logic holes you could drive a truck through but it's a lot of fun, there's plenty of action (the opening scene has someone fall off a mountain), Janet Munro is effective as a psychic, there is lots of violence (decapitations, hackings) which they get around censor wise by describing them.
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