Abominable

Release Date: October 3, 2006

Tag Line: Some things are better left unfound.

Description: It has been sighted 42,000 times in 68 countries, a vicious creature of myth and legend called Sasquatch, Yeti, and perhaps more infamously, Bigfoot. We’ve hunted it for years. But what happens when it decides to hunt us?

For newly paraplegic mountain climber Preston Rogers (Matt McCoy), the horror hits home when this ravenous beast attacks a remote forest community. Will its next hot meal be a group of knucklehead hunters (including Lance Henriksen of Aliens and Jeffrey Combs of Re-Animator), a skeptical police chief (Paul Gleason of Die Hard.), a cabin full of nubile co-eds (including Ashley Hartman of The O.C.) or a trapped Preston himself? Rex Linn (C.S.I. Miami) and Dee Wallace-Stone (Cujo) co-star in this wild and gruesome horror shocker that Fangoria calls “the best serious fright film ever made about Bigfoot!”

Running time: 94 minutes

Rating: Not Rated

Scoop Review

Plot: Bigfoot kickin' ass and not caring about names.

Acting: There’s a bunch of well-known actors and actresses in this flick, so the acting is more than adequate. Jeffrey Combs is extremely entertaining in his role. I almost didn’t recognize him, but if you’ve seen Re-Animator, it’s hard to forget him. Trust me.

Special Effects: Big thumbs up for the effects. Some of the death sequences will definitely give you the willies. (And I’m a hardened horror movie vet.)

Ridiculous Dialogue Sample:

• “Hey . . . ass monkey. Eat this!”

Keep an Eye Out For. . .

• Paul Gleason in the role of sheriff. This was his next-to-last movie before he died in May of 2006.

• Lance Hendrickson and Dee Wallace-Stone. Their total screen time amounts to something like 36 seconds.

It was Really Cool When. . .

• A woman gets pulled through a window and snapped in half at the same time. No joke.

• A guy gets his face bitten off. This was worth the price of renting the movie alone, hands-down (or more accurately, face-off).

The Straight Scoop: I had low expectations going in, but this was a pretty creepy flick. There were lapses here and there, to be sure, but there was also a fair amount of tension and suspense, too. And some of the things that happened during the movie make more sense after you see the very end. It’s not exactly a “snap ending,” or even that original, but it does set things up for . . . Abominable 2?

Recommendation: If you’ve always been fascinated by Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, or whatever you’d like to call it, and you like horror flicks, this one’s pretty good. If you’ve always been fascinated by Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, or whatever you’d like to call it, and you don’t like horror flicks, rent Harry and the Hendersons . Now that’s a classic, my friends. (“Eaten? By a vegetarian?”)

Quality Rating: Three and a half scoops (of face)

Riff Rating: Three scoops

Reviewer: Matt Deutsch

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