Abominable

Abominable
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Directed by	Ryan Schifrin
Produced by	Donna Cockrell Theresa Eastman Paul Spadone
Written by	James Morrison Ryan Schifrin
Starring	Matt McCoy Jeffrey Combs Haley Joel Christien Tinsley Ashley Hartman Karin Anna Cheung Michael Deak
Music by	Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography	Neal Fredericks
Editing by	Chris Conlee
Distributed by	Sci-Fi Channel
Release date(s)	October 3, 2006
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Abominable is a 2006 Sci Fi Horror Channel original movie, directed and written by Ryan Schifrin. The film stars Matt McCoy, Jeffrey Combs, Lance Henriksen, Rex Linn, Dee Wallace, Phil Morris, Paul Gleason and Haley Joel. The film features the cryptid Bigfoot as the main antagonist, despite the title. It premiered on April 10, 2006 in New York City. The music is scored by Lalo Schifrin, which patterned on Les Baxter's score to The Beast Within.

Plot

The film begins with a farmer named Billy Hoss and his wife Ethel waking up in the middle of the night to unusual noises. They and their dog Sparky go outside to investigate, where they find a horse lying dead on the ground, violently ripped open. Their dog runs into the dark, and is attacked (and presumably killed off-screen), causing Billy and Ethel to run back in the house where they see a mysterious giant figure behind their home. Once the creature is gone, they come out again only to find large footprints on the ground.

Six months later, a man bound in a wheelchair named Preston Rogers stays in a cottage in the local woods while being watched and nursed by Otis Wilhelm. On the other hand, a group of city girls, Karen, Michelle, C.J., Tracy, and Amanda, arrive in a jeep and move in the house next door for a weekend vacation to celebrate Karen's upcoming marriage. However, things may look peaceful as they seem but then Preston, who lost his wife in the climbing accident that crippled him, begins to see something mysterious happening in these woods.

As night falls, a group of hunters, including Billy and a gas station clerk named Buddy who has met Otis and Preston earlier, are out looking for the same monster that came to Billy's home, which they believe to be a deranged Sasquatch. Ziegler Dane, the third of the party, investigates and looks around after Buddy claims to have heard noises. He finds a cave and discovers Karen, who went missing when Preston seemingly saw something grab her, mortally wounded with her stomach torn open. When she is dragged away and killed, Dane runs out, warns the others and they fire. Unfortunately, one by one, the hunters are grabbed by the hiding monster and killed.

Preston, after trying to send messages to the local police after what happened to Karen, sees that the remaining girls are looking for her. After trying to call the police, they head inside and promise to go after her later on. However, the Sasquatch returns and attacks Tracy who had just finished taking a shower. As the monster pulls Tracy through a small window, snapping her in half and killing her, Preston tries to get Otis to see the creature but it leaves. A disbelieving Otis attempts to sedate Preston to calm him down but gets tranquilized himself. After that stumble, Preston looks out a window and the creature appears, roaring at him.

After fainting in terror from seeing the beast up close, Preston gets up, sees that the cops have replied with a threat to jail him for his "prank", and tries to call out the girls, who discover Tracy gone and blood in the bathroom. The Sasquatch appears again and heads further into the woods. Preston gets the girls' attention and tells them about the monster. Surprisingly, they believe him after what happened to Tracy and Karen. As he urges them to stay away from the windows and try to call the police, the beast invades their cabin and they hide. Michelle hides in the upstairs bathroom, C.J. hides in the bedroom closet, and Amanda is forced to take her chances and hide downstairs.

The Sasquatch hears Michelle in the upstairs bathroom, pulls her down through the ceiling, and mauls her. As it stomps through the living room, Amanda attempts to sneak out, but C.J. runs into the room looking for her and screams at the sight of the Sasquatch, inadvertently blowing both their covers. C.J. escapes and Amanda is cornered, forcing her to leap through a window. A hysterical C.J. abandons Amanda and attempts to escape in the Jeep, but is unable to get it started and the Sasquatch overturns it. As she attempts to run back to rescue Amanda and get to Preston's cabin, the Sasquatch knocks her to the ground and stomps on her stomach, killing her and leaving Amanda as the sole survivor out of all her friends.

A traumatized Amanda runs to Preston's cabin and he quickly welcomes her in. Promising to protect her, Preston starts a plan to stop the creature from killing them both while Amanda attempts to contact police with a different message, this time about a "psycho killer", but the power goes out. The Sasquatch breaks into the cabin, and they both try to escape down the cottage's balcony using Preston's old climbing gear. The creature gets Amanda but is interrupted by an awake Otis, now knowing Preston was telling the truth, who strikes it in the back with an axe, causing it to drop Amanda. The attack does not kill it, and the enraged beast kills Otis by biting his head vertically in half. The Sasquatch continues to pursue the two remaining humans. As they get inside Preston's car, the survivors attempt to move but the creature has them and then releases the car. Amanda is ejected from the vehicle and onto the ground and knocked out. A desperate Preston then stops the monster from killing her by using his car horn which irritates the beast.

Preston then releases the brakes, causing the Sasquatch to get caught behind the car. Preston shifts gears into reverse and keeps pushing it until it is rammed to a tree, causing the axe from Otis' attack still in its back to impale it. Preston goes after Amanda as the creature dies, and the police finally arrive. After confirming dead bodies, Preston and Amanda are off to a hospital. However, the victims of the Sasquatch are not seen and the creature itself is somehow gone. On the other hand, Sheriff Halderman and his deputies then hear noises after a short search. He and his crew turn around to discover a group of Sasquatches growling at them from the bushes.

Cast

• Matt McCoy as Preston Rogers
• Haley Joel as Amanda
• Christien Tinsley as Otis Wilhelm
• Ashley Hartman as Karen Herdberger
• Tiffany Shepis as Tracy
• Karin Anna Cheung as C.J.
• Natalie Compagno as Michelle
• Lance Henriksen as Ziegler Dane
• Rex Linn as Farmer Hoss
• Jeffrey Combs as Colin Dunlap, The Clerk
• Michael Deak as Abominable Snowman

Reception

Although not released in theaters, it is shown that on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes that 62% percent of 13 critics gave the film a positive review.

See also

• Merlin and the Book of Beasts (2009)
• Beyond Loch Ness
• Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon
• Beowulf & Grendel

External links

• Abominable
• Abominable at the Internet Movie Database
• Abominable at AllRovi
• Analysis of the film by Critical-film.com reviewer Jason Pitt
• Interview with Abominable Director Ryan Schifrin conducted by Pat Ferrara at Mania.com. (December 2006)