Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

TheLittleSongbird In fact, I was actually surprised at how surprisingly decent Abominable was. Okay, it is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, the special effects are on the cheesy side and that is including the Bigfoot(I think) monster, the pacing does have its longueurs in the middle and I do think the monster could have been utilised a little bit less than it was as well as developed more to add to the suspense factor. However, the photography is not bad considering the small budget, the moody look of it does draw you in, and I'd say the same for the scenery as well. The sound effects don't make the mistake of being bizarre or misplaced either. The scripting does have its weak spots but there is enough humour and suspense to make it a decent script at least, while the story is gripping in how scarily gripping it is, the suspenseful atmosphere and the increasingly violent killings. The characters are ones we've seen before and can be seen as clichés, but the actors ensure that there is some depth and likability to them. Matt McCoy does a quite good job carrying Abominable, and Haley Joel is much more than the all looks, no talent actress I was anticipating(and dreading). Then there are the likes of Paul Gleason, Jeffrey Combs and Lance Henrikssen who are always watchable in varying movies, and they are all very good in their roles. So overall, decent, not abominable in the slightest. 7/10 Bethany Cox

atinder I have always seen this in the shop and I never picked up before as I thought it sound like and looked like a really bad b-movie.I found this B-movie really enjoyable, the acting is not that good, however it fit in.There were some really good scare moments, that worked really well, As I did not expect ar all.I wish they showed the Bigfoot a bit less, the parts of the movie see parts of him, found it be little scary, when we finally see the whole Bigfoot.It's was too bad, i found it little to goofy and not scary. they could of made him look a lot more scary.Harry looks more scary this Bigfoot and I love Harry Hendderson 6 out of 10 good b-movie

johannes2000-1 Let's start with the (very few) positive things. The photography in the first 10 minutes was nice: some beautiful shots of the mountains. Matt McCoy as a lead could have been good: he's soft on the eyes and I do think he can act (it's just a pity that he got himself into this lame production that made him utter some of the corniest dialog I've heard in ages!). The musical score aims solely on scaring the viewers out of their wits with sudden outbursts of decibels, which (I can assure you) is very effective. Even the premise wasn't too bad, I mean, I don't mind old Bigfoot resurrected again, it could be fun, especially in a nowadays fashion. And the idea of a cripple caught in a house that's besieged by this giant predator, so that he has to use some other skills and tricks than just sheer physical strength, isn't too bad either. But that's about it on the positive side. For the rest I just don't know where to begin. Biggest disappointment: the creature. As long as it's hidden in the shadows it's (remotely) scary, and they try very hard to convince us of the creature's colossal strength and size (at the start of the movie we see a prize stallion that he's supposed to have killed). But then it come's out in the open and it's diminished to the size of an average big person. And guess what: it IS a person! This is a 2005 production, and in stead of some sophisticated CGI they make us watch a guy in a suit, for crying out loud!! Not even a decent one, but just a big bag of fluffy hair. The head is the only menacing feature, with big rolling eyes an a wide jaw with pointed teeth, and it's nicely done, but the director is apparently so proud of this, that we get to see this hideous face for long close- ups as it appears outside the window, where it's so busy rolling it's red eyes and baring it's teeth that the effect is ludicrous. Then the script. Main character McCoy has had an accident some month ago where he lost his wife and barely made it alive himself. He's now back in his old home under the guidance of some sort of male nurse (who acts more like a sadistic prison-guard). Why this elaborate back-ground? Apart from McCoy being confined to a wheel-chair, it doesn't serve any purpose. The guardian-bit neither – okay, it provides us with the most entertaining part of the movie (and by far the best acting!) but it doesn't add anything to the story-line. Although I must grant the writers that the devouring of this obnoxious man's total head by the monster was neatly done and very well deserved!!Anyway, the makers brought in a whole bundle of girls, who come up to stay in the cottage next door. I jumped up in my chair, expecting us to be treated with some traditional (for this kind of horror-flicks) nudity and making out. Alas, not so here, they just served as Bigfoot-meat within ten minutes after their arrival. The terrible Bigfoot finds the girls very appealing and we see him breaking through their doors and walls, slapping everyone around him and even pulling one of them, who hides on the first floor, right down through the ceiling (well, THAT at least was original!), all swaying arms and ferocious roars while slowly walking wide-legged like some kid in a high school play in an over-sized monkey-suit. McCoy has to witness all this havoc from behind his window and screams preposterous advice to the doomed girls ("go inside! Lock the door!!"), without much avail. The last girl finds refuge in his house. Here the silliness takes an even more amazing turn. Between McCoy (obviously forty-something) and this rosy-cheeked teenage-girl develops some kind of instant mutual attraction. He takes her in his arms and while an abominable predator threatens their lives (after having killed all 4 of her friends within the last 20 minutes) McCoy finds the time to tell the whole tear-jerking story of his wife's deadly accident and how he came out of that as a better and wiser mans, and then he reassures the girl (who's on the brink of getting devoured by an abominable beast) with this incredible wisdom: "being afraid that we're going to be killed means that we still are ALIVE and can fight". I could swear I saw a halo glisten around his angelic face and the girl is totally smitten on the spot.Well, I'm not going to give away how they managed to out-smart the monster and get away alive, but they do. And the monster? The last minute of the movie gives us the obligatory open ending: the evil didn't end, it has only just begun. Oh, you missed the prominently billed Lance Henriksen in my review?? Well, that's because he had approximately 20 seconds screen-time to utter only one sentence. He's just there to attract innocent people like me, making me believe that his name stands for at least SOME quality. Boy, was I wrong.

trashgang Ryan Schifrin, the director of this flick wasn't well known until he appeared in Hatchet 2 as a featured hunter, uncredited but still he could say he was in Hatchet 2. I guess due that reason that suddenly Abominable came available here 5 years after its release. Still you could pick it up here immediately on the sale shelves. So that means a lot. For us Europeans Bigfoot doesn't mean a thing. Okay, you had the comedy Harry and the Hendersons concerning Bigfoot. Nevertheless, this one here also had some appearances of well known horror actors. For instance, Jeffrey Combs is in it for his faces he can make, and Lance Henriksen is in it to play the tough guy. But be aware, both are only a few moments in it. Tiffany Shepis, also one of those well known actresses in the genre is in it and guess what, you can see her again in full nudity. And there are more names, too many to mention. And that's the problem, names doesn't make a movie. Scripts do and here it fails a bit. I must say that a few killings are indeed gory but when Tiffany dies watch the blood sputtering on the wall above the window, next shot, blood is gone and those mistakes tear a flick down for me. One attack by the Sasquatch is worth mentioning, won't spoil it but you will surely recognise it. But really, nothing happens for a lot here, a few attacks and that is it. You can see the end coming once it appears, you really know what's going to happen. No suspense although the effects used and make up for the Yeti were well done. If he had made it like Hatchet well, a classic it would be but for know it is what the title says, abominable.