31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 7 - Abominable

Abominable

94 mins.

Dir. Ryan Schifrin

2006/USA

I am a sucker for Bigfoot movies.  I have a soft spot for them and sea creature flicks. I will sit through just about anything with hope and usually wind up disappointed, but on to the next one I go.  However, with Abominable, chalk that one up in the win column.  It is far from the greatest Bigfoot movie, but if you want a no frills, cut right to the chase monster movie.  Abominable delivers.

A bunch of genre favorites pop up in this one starting off with Dee Wallace Stone as her and her husband investigate a noise outside in the woods surrounding their home.  They find a slaughtered horse and see a silhouette of a giant creature.  They run back to their house lock the doors and listen as a giant creature stalks around the perimeter of their home.  Once all is quiet, they head out only to find giant foot prints in the ground.  This film wastes no time letting you know this is a monster movie and from the beginning it looks like this is the kind of shit I eat up in a monster movie.  I am psyched.

From there our story unfolds with our lead Preston, played by Matt McCoy, who you will recognize, he has been in a ton of TV things, but I couldn’t place my finger on any of them.  And while a good actor, to me he just didn’t fit this role very well and was kind of annoying.  Anyway, seems Matt took a spill off a cliff with his wife when they were mountain climbing, killed her and left him in a wheelchair.  With his Nurse/Therapist Otis, seems like they thought it would be a good to go back to the scene of the accident and spend some time in the cabin.  Really that whole back story is kind of pointless and unnecessary.  You just need to know Preston can’t walk.

What is a helpless wheelchair bound guy to do stuck in the woods.  Oh wait, what is this?  Four young girls rented the cabin right across the street?  And one of the them Is Tiffany Shepis? Well alright, alright, alright.  Do I really need to go on about how the rest of this movie is going to turn out?

The bigfoot in Abominable hates people.  Down right hates them.  Don’t know if it is because we fuck up the environment or don’t leave him alone or what, but he is pissed.  He just wants to tear people apart and eat their face, which he does in a crazy ass scene where with one chomp he bites a guy’s face off.  And bigfoot isn’t no dummy either.  He knows to knock out the phones lines before he attacks, so no one can make any calls and this high in the mountains cell reception sucks.

One by one Bigfoot picks off the girls in the house as Preston watches from afar helpless because he is bound in his wheelchair.  Bigfoot doesn’t give two fucks and just mangles everything in his path, you can’t escape him, this motherfucker will even smash through your ceiling to pull you down from the second floor.

Abominable isn’t really afraid to show you what bigfoot looks like either, like I said, he doesn’t give a fuck.  Not completely realistic looking, slightly Harry in a Harry and the Hendersons kind of way.  In fact imagine the bigfoot from that movie, with a more pissed off face and loads of teeth that I don’t know how all fit into his mouth.  Want a no brains monster movie that is simply entertaining?  Abominable is it.  Want to watch another bigfoot movie, where the bigfoot just goes on a killing spree?  Abominable is it.  Want to watch Tiffany Shepis get naked again?  Abominable is it.  And if none of that convinced you, how about cameos from Paul Gleeson as the sheriff, who was the teacher in the Breakfast Club and Lance Henrikson and Jefferry Combs as two hunters out looking for Bigfoot.