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SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Coventry It seems like writer/director Ryan Shifrin put a lot of time and energy into lobbying and trying to convince famous B-movie icons to make guest appearances in his long-feature debut film. And with great success, I must add, since "Abominable" features no less than 4 relatively big and popular names of the horror/cult movie business. It must be quite impressive to sit in a bar with your friends and be able to say that you managed to recruit Jeffrey Combs, Lance Henriksen, Paul Gleason and Dee Wallace Stone for your first film! But does it honestly matter that much, really? The roles of these four hardly qualify as cameo appearances and their added value to the plot is zilch. Instead of focusing so much on these guest appearances, Shifrin perhaps should have put even a bit more thought in the script and main character drawings. The story definitely shows potential and more depth than your average Bigfoot/Sasquatch flick (traditionally a sub genre full of hideous stinkers…), but eventually it still lacks something. The story centers on a man returning to his cabin in the Flatwoods, severely traumatized and condemned to life in a wheelchair following a terrible mountain climbing accident in which he lost his beloved wife. Quite a shame, because according to Jeffrey Combs' sleazy character she was a fox! He rapidly spots a giant hairy monster with spooky eyes amidst the trees, but his cynical male nurse doesn't believe him and the four sexy babes next door assume he's just a sick pervert when he's waving around his binoculars and trying to get their attention. Yes, "Abominable" is actually a bit of a mixture between Hitchcock's classic "Read Window" and low-budget budget backwoods horror. Three of the four babes (including Tiffany Shepis, so nudity guaranteed!) are butchered rather fast, but our crippled whiny hero teams up with the – cutest- remaining girl and makes a run for it. The plot is silly and predictable, but at least it's never boring and there even are a few notable moments of suspense if you keep your expectations low. The Bigfoot creature looks like a sleazier and trashier version of Harry (from "Harry and the Hendersons") and has the ability to swallow someone's entire face in one single gulp! Speaking as an avid blood & gore fanatic, I think "Abominable" should have shown a lot more beastly massacres and grotesque make-up effects. Maybe next time Shifrin could try to spend less of his budget on cameo appearances and more in the gore department.

Koosh_King01 In an era where too many horror movies are Jason Voorhees slasher types or overly-CGI infested crapfests without the slightest originality or aptness of execution, 2006's Abominable, directed by famed composer Lalo Schifrin's son Ryan, stands out. Admittedly, with the multitude of young female victims on display it does sometimes feel like a slasher, and its plot isn't entirely original either, but there's no CGI employed and the manner in which the not-too-original story is presented doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence.As the film begins, farmer Billy Hoss and his wife Ethel awake in the middle of a snowy winter's night night to discover something killed their horse. Their dog Sparky runs off into the woods and we hear a yelp and a snarl, signaling Sparky's untimely demise and the arrival of the movie's monster. Whatever it is, it chases Mr. and Mrs. Hoss back to their house where they hide out until it goes away. When it's gone, Billy and Ethel come outside to investigate after a breather, they find giant footprints in the snow...The following day, Preston Rogers is being brought back home to Flatwoods after months of rehabilitative therapy following a climbing accident at the infamous (and poorly named) Suicide Rock, an incident which killed his wife and has forever cost Preston the use of his legs; he is a paraplegic, confined to a wheelchair. His doctors have placed him in the care of Grade-A dickweed Otis Wilhelm, a sort of male nurse kind of guy (and if Otis wasn't such an asshole I'd fully recommend slashing him and Preston!). Preston really doesn't want to be here, or anywhere, really, as he is depressed over his wife's death and such. The fact his house is in the shadow of Suicide Rock isn't helping his wounded psyche any.When Otis leaves to run to the grocery store, a bored Preston decides to do some birdwatching with his binoculars when some college girls - Amanda, C.J., Karen, Tracy and Michelle - drive up to occupy the rented cabin across the road for the weekend. With little else to do that doesn't remind him of his wife, Preston alternates between watching the girls and watching the woods. And when Karen wanders off to call her boyfriend on her cell phone away from the others, Preston sees, out of the corner of his eye, something big and hairy swoop in and snatch her, and by the time he brings the binoculars up again, Karen is gone leaving only her phone behind.Preston sends a frantic E-mail off to the local sheriff's office but is told not to send prank mail. Otis returns around this time and naturally doesn't believe Preston.Meanwhile, Billy Hoss and a couple of other shotgun-toting rednecks head off into the woods as night falls to hunt what the owner of the local gas station believes is a Yeti. Hearing a noise, the doubtful Ziegler Dane heads off to investigate the woods alone (this after he just got explaining what the Darwin Awards were to his comrades) and discovers the dying Karen, who has just enough time to warn Ziegler, "It's coming back!" before it does, indeed, return, and Karen and her would-be rescuer wind up as Yeti chow in short order, with Ziegler loosing the famous Wilhelm Scream as his death cry. Billy and the gas station guy follow suit.Preston keeps insisting he saw (kind of) a monster, causing tension to build between him and the already dickish, impatient Otis, culminating in Otis attempting to sedate him after the understandably hysterical Preston further witnesses Tracy get pulled through the bathroom window across the street, which, incidentally, was far too small for her. One snapped back later and the four remaining girls have dwindled to only three.So anyway Otis tries to sedate Preston, only for his charge to grab the syringe and jam it into Otis' neck, sedating him instead. Otis will spend most of the remainder of the film lying around on the floor.Without his overbearing nurse hindering him any further, Preston begins making lengthy attempts to warn the other girls, culminating in the monster finally appearing fully (and it is indeed a Yeti, or at least a Bigfoot; the movie does offer a pseudo-science explanation for what a Yeti is doing in the United States, but it doesn't quite fly).But what's a guy who can't use his legs anymore going to do against a gigantic monster we've seen flip over cars and kill experienced hunters? Well, all I'll say is it involves an axe and a station wagon...Abominable is not a groundbreaking film by any means, and the effects aren't that great (the monster costume makes the Yeti look like what someone aptly described as "an angry Brian Dennehy that wants to rape someone"), but it is well-directed and has some really wonderful suspenseful moments, making excellent use of the claustrophobia of Preston's house and the deep, impenetrable darkness of the woods without.Scenes such as the one at the beginning where there Hoss family hides in their house while something big, unseen and nasty skulks around outside is the stuff of nightmares, and Preston's reaction to his first glimpse of the monster, which is to freeze up and slowly start wheeling his chair back inside the house (no easy task given how his arms are locked up with terror) is also really great. As for gore, well, just you wait 'till you see what happens to Otis when he finally wakes up!Abominable is a really good effort, and although it isn't great, it still stands out as a diamond in the rough amidst a sea of crappy horror films to come out in the last several years. The fact it debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel, which is a dumping ground for various crappy low-budget horror crapfests, makes the fact it's actually good even more surprising.

Ben Larson Well, what a surprise! Another Sasquatch/Yeti/Big Foot movie, and here is Lance Henriksen again. That's two in one year. Of course, he doesn't have as big a role as he did in Sasquatch Mountain. After all, he was in nine movies in 2006; he can't star in all of them.The star is Matt McCoy, who did a lot of films, including Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter in 1994, and L.A. Confidential in 1997, before focusing mostly on TV, with recent roles in "Huff" and "Carnivàle."Eye candy includes Harvard Alum Haley Joel, Karin Anna Cheung, Top Model Ashley Hartman, and Scream Queen Tiffany Shepis.This film had a goodly amount of suspense, a great score, some good humor, and some good acting by favorites like Hendiksen and Jeffrey Combs.

elliott78212 I had a hard time finding this movie but after a few tries glad I found it, who knew SyFy actually had some great horror debuts on its network. A friend told me about this movie after seeing Matt McCoy in some other film, its both suspenseful and scary the creature is convincing if not excellently rendered and for a low budget movie manages to make the best out of what its got.Genre veterans Lance Henrikson and Jeffrey Combs, make a brief but light cameo appearance as food for the monster beyond that Matt McCoy's performance carries the movie solidly thru to the end. I heard there is an unrated version which might provide some much needed gore but the movie is satisfying as a horror movie without it, 6 stars out of 10 for taking two horror film types and merging them nicely, sprinkle in a few scares and touches of comedy and you have a low budget b-movie hit. See it or buy it in the bargain bin.