To say that "Abominable" is the best movie ever to premiere on a basic cable channel is degrading both to the movie and to Bigfoot.
04/19/08 08:58 AM
Abominable (2006)
55 %
Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 6 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis:
After being hunted and mythologized for centuries, the monstrous creature known by such names as Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch turns the tables around, unleashing his wrath upon a cabin full of hot young coeds, a paraplegic mountain climber, and a host of others unlucky enough to cross his... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Matt McCoy, Jeffrey Combs, Paul Gleason, Michael S. Deak
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
Reviews
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Abominable is a rip-roaring monster movie, and it doesn't try to be anything else.
09/29/06 05:26 PM
Top Critic
You keep looking for a sign that its young writer-director, Ryan Schifrin, is going for a tongue-in-cheek romp. But no, he seems to be deadly earnest.
04/20/06 11:35 AM
Top Critic It has the requisite number of scary moments, but, as is often the case, keeps the jeopardy up by having people behave inexplicably stupidly.
04/20/06 12:51 AM
An entirely familiar yet slyly entertaining little throwback to the days of Grizzly, Pumpkinhead, and Prophecy -- with a big dose of Rear Window tossed in, just to amp the tension up a little.
04/15/06 09:10 PM
One of those fright fests that isn't so much frightening as it is funny... and not in a good way.
04/13/06 05:41 PM
Not only are slasher/horror/splatter films enjoying a sharp spike in popularity, right now they're also where one can find the best comedy.
04/12/06 06:27 PM
Top Critic Schifrin's modest thriller delivers some gross-out gore in the last third, but spends most of its running time building up a tidy atmosphere of mounting dread.
04/12/06 06:10 PM
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