therersadaly From new director Ryan Schifrin comes the Bigfoot/Yeti film, Abominable. Preston Rogers (played wonderfully by Matt McCoy) lost his wife and be came paralyzed on Suicide Rock in Flatwood. Now, he returns to Flatwood with Otis Wilhelm (who is played by newcomer Christien Tinsley) for treatment. Also arriving is a group of young women (which includes scream queen Tiffany Shepis). As time goes by Preston realizes there something is in the woods, something big. He tries to explain it to Otis and the local authorities, but no one believes him. That is until it comes out of the woods very unhappy and very hungry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although it stole a little for the Hitchcock classic Rear Window, Abominable was a pleasant surprise. Having an intelligent and original story filled with blood & guts and shocks, it had everything a creature feature needed and more. So if your looking for a scary, bloody, suspenseful evening, pop some popcorn and watch Abominable. Also starring horror legends Jeffery Combs( The Re-Animator franchise, From Beyond, and The Frighteners), Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Frighteners, Critters and The Howling), and Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Alien 3, AvP, Omen 2, Pirahna 2, Near Dark, Pumpkinhead, The Terminator, and many more). I wish they made more horror movies like this!!!

SeanJoyce The sasquatch/yeti/bigfoot/abominable snowman sub-genre is probably the most dubious in all of the horror domain. It's had its fair share of turns at bat, yet it rarely hits anything outside of foul balls.Ryan Schifrin's ABOMINABLE takes an admirable crack at the formula, and the result is a solid, mostly-respectable little effort.The most unique thing about this creature feature is its Hitchcockian set-up; a man is recommended by his doctor to revisit the mountain-site where a climbing accident killed his wife and left him a physical and emotional cripple. Confined to a wheelchair and accompanied by his male nurse, Preston (Matt McCoy) reluctantly journeys to a high-elevation cabin in an attempt to vanquish the demons that have plagued him ever since the accident.Shortly after settling in, he is all but deserted by his companion. Bored and incapable of doing much, he takes to surveying his surroundings. A group of nubile co-eds arrive to occupy the cabin next door. Armed with binoculars, Preston watches things unfold with a placid interest until he notices odd things happening. With mounting alarm, he begins to realize that someone or something is lurking in the encompassing woods, and is drawn to all of the activity. As night presses, the "something", revealed to be the fabled Sasquatch, makes its feared presence known by besieging the cabin of the girls and then stalking Preston. The incapacitated Preston must make use of limited means to thwart the creature's onslaught.ABOMINABLE is a fun little flick. Schifrin, who wrote the project as a film student, manipulates the claustrophobic and atmospheric elements well. The REAR WINDOW-bent makes for an intriguing, suspenseful concept. The movie's credibility is boosted by cameos from genre vets Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, and Lance Henriksen, while Paul Gleason (drinking from a "Don't Mess with the Bull"-engraved coffee mug) is on hand as a cynical police chief. The movie gets props for using costumes over CGI, but it also saddles it with its biggest problem. Schifrin wisely conceals the creature for the first half of the movie, only to ruin the well-earned mystique by completely overexposing it in the second half. As noted by others, the design bears a startling resemblance to iconic American character actor Jack Elam. It ceases to be terrifying, and instead starts to look plain goofy.Still, ABOMINABLE deserves a lot of credit. It's probably the best film of its type, thought I confess to not having seen the Peter Cushing vehicle THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN from the 50s. McCoy, a t.v. actor, does a serviceable job in the lead, the suspense is well-mounted, and the kills are done tastefully...shocking, but not overly-gruesome. It's good old-fashioned monster movie mayhem with a subject usually mishandled in its numerous screen attempts. IMO, the ultimate "bigfoot" flick has yet to be made, but we've got this one to keep us company while we wait.

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.