Preston Rogers returns to his home that is a remote cabin in the woods to recover after have being treated for six month due to a mountain climbing accident. But things does not stay calm and quiet for long since Preston discovers a huge beast out in the forest, that is the legendary Sasquatch. Trapped in the remote location, Preston must find someone who will listen to him so they can stop the beast before it goes on a killing spree.
There has been a bunch of lousy films made that has dealt with the subject of the Sasquatch (Yeti, Bigfoot), but that all have been quite boring, so it was great to see a movie that actually did the beast justice. When I first heard about Abominable, I heard that Lance Henriksen (Pumpkinhead) were gonna be in it and I thought that he would star in the movie, so at first I was a little disappointed that that wasn't the case. He's in the movie though, but for just about 15 minutes or so, and the same goes for Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) who can also be seen in this flick. But even so, Abominable turned out to be an exciting creature-feature with the lead Matt McCoy doing an excellent job.
The story is very simple and goes something like this: Preston Rogers (Matt McCoy) who were in a mountain climbing accident that took his wife's life and paralyzed Preston returns to his home in the woods to recover from the tragic event. He has one guy named Otis (Christien Tinsley) with him who's supposed to take care of Preston, and in the house next to his are a group of girls, on vacation in the mountains. It doesn't take long before Prestons sees some kind of mysterious creature from his window, lurking out in the woods, but Otis does not believe him and thinks that he still suffers from the accident. Eventually the Sasquatch goes on a bloody rampage and Preston must do everything in his power to stop the beast.
 
The monster itself looked and acted in a pretty cool way and there were no CG in the film, so that was a big plus. It's an angry monster that goes berzerk and tries to kill all the humans around, and the film featured a couple of quite nasty scenes that even had some fine gore to offer. One guy got his face bit off and one girl was pulled through a very small window which looked extremely cool. Other than that, the film had good pacing, some fine action scenes and some pretty good tension and suspense to offer as well. There were not too much gore, but I'm quite sure gorehounds won't be disappointed.
If I'm gonna complain a little it would have to be about that the beast's weakness seemed to be car horns which came of as something that felt a bit stupid. I liked when you only got to see the Sasquatch for a very brief moment, it looked nasty but still had some mystery to it. Towards the end you got to see it up-close a number of times and it looked a bit like a huge hairy mongoloid caveman, which was more funny than scary. But even though Abominable wasn't really a scary film, it still had a lot to offer on the horror front and had some fine suspense to it at times. All that accompanied by good belivable acting from all the cast members made Abominable turn out to be an entertaining and bloody ride.
As far as I'm concerned, Abominable is definitely the best Sasquatch movie to date. The 94 minutes it lasted for went by very quickly and it ended in a very cool way. You should definitely give it a shot.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Ryan Schifrin
WRITING CREDITS: Ryan Schifrin
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 94 min
RATING: 7/10
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