Abominable
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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
.
named Billy Hoss and his wife Ethel wake up in the middle of the night to unusual noise. They and their dog Sparky go outside to investigate, where they find a horse
lying dead on the ground and 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 was gone, they came 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 things as something mysterious is 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, 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, who now knows that Preston was telling the truth all along, 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 beast 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.
Matt McCoy (actor)
Matt McCoy is an American actor.McCoy was born in Ohio. Since starring as Sgt. Nick Lassard in two Police Academy films, his motion picture credits have included the Curtis Hanson films The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and L.A. Confidential , as well as the action comedy National Security ...
, Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Alan Combs is an American actor known for his horror film roles and his appearances playing a number of characters in the Star Trek franchise.-Early life:...
, Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen
Lance James Henriksen is an American actor and artist best known to film and television audiences for his roles in science fiction, action, and horror films such as the Alien film franchise, and on television shows such as Millennium....
, Rex Linn
Rex Linn
Rex Maynard Linn is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami.-Early life:...
, Dee Wallace, Phil Morris
Phil Morris
Phillip Morris is an American television and movie actor most famous for his portrayal of Jackie Chiles in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and John Jones in The CW sci-fi series Smallville.-Personal life:...
, Paul Gleason
Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on TV series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places and Die Hard.-Early life:...
and Haley Joel. The film features the cryptid Bigfoot
Bigfoot
Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is an ape-like cryptid that purportedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid...
as the main antagonist, despite the title. It premiered on April 10, 2006 in New York City. The music is scored by Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...
, which patterned on Les Baxter
Les Baxter
Les Baxter was an American musician and composer.Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer...
's score to The Beast Within
The Beast Within
The Beast Within is a 1982 horror film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, L. Q. Jones, Don Gordon, R. G. Armstrong, Katherine Moffat, and Meshach Taylor....
.
Plot
The film begins with a scene where a farmerFarmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...
named Billy Hoss and his wife Ethel wake up in the middle of the night to unusual noise. They and their dog Sparky go outside to investigate, where they find a horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
lying dead on the ground and 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 was gone, they came out again only to find large footprints on the ground.
Six months later, a man bound in a wheelchair
Wheelchair
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking. The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand. Often there are handles behind the seat for someone else to do the pushing...
named Preston Rogers stays in a cottage
Cottage
__toc__In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cozy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. However there are cottage-style dwellings in cities, and in places such as Canada the term exists with no connotations of size at all...
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
Jeep
Jeep is an automobile marque of Chrysler . The first Willys Jeeps were produced in 1941 with the first civilian models in 1945, making it the oldest off-road vehicle and sport utility vehicle brand. It inspired a number of other light utility vehicles, such as the Land Rover which is the second...
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 things as something mysterious is 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, 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
Balcony
Balcony , a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade.-Types:The traditional Maltese balcony is a wooden closed balcony projecting from a...
using Preston's old climbing gear. The creature gets Amanda but is interrupted by an awake Otis, who now knows that Preston was telling the truth all along, who strikes it in the back with an axe
Axe
The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol...
, 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 beast 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
Impalement
Impalement is the traumatic penetration of an organism by an elongated foreign object such as a stake, pole, or spear, and this usually implies complete perforation of the central mass of the impaled body...
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 McCoyMatt McCoy (actor)Matt McCoy is an American actor.McCoy was born in Ohio. Since starring as Sgt. Nick Lassard in two Police Academy films, his motion picture credits have included the Curtis Hanson films The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and L.A. Confidential , as well as the action comedy National Security ...
as Preston Rogers - Haley Joel as Amanda
- Christien TinsleyChristien TinsleyChristien Tinsley is a make-up artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Makeup for his work in The Passion of the Christ . He won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2008 "for the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as Tinsley...
as Otis Wilhelm - Ashley HartmanAshley HartmanAshley Christina Hartman is an American actress and fashion model.-Early life:Hartman was born to Michele Knutsen and Kip Hartman in Orange County, California. When she was four years of age, her parents divorced and Hartman lived with Knutsen and her two sisters...
as Karen Herdberger - Tiffany ShepisTiffany Shepis- External links :...
as Tracy - Karin Anna CheungKarin Anna CheungKarin Anna Cheung is an American actress, singer/songwriter, and artist. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Her first audition for feature films landed her the female lead role in Better Luck Tomorrow directed by Justin Lin...
as C.J. - Natalie Compagno as Michelle
- Lance HenriksenLance HenriksenLance James Henriksen is an American actor and artist best known to film and television audiences for his roles in science fiction, action, and horror films such as the Alien film franchise, and on television shows such as Millennium....
as Ziegler Dane - Rex LinnRex LinnRex Maynard Linn is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami.-Early life:...
as Farmer Hoss - Jeffrey CombsJeffrey CombsJeffrey Alan Combs is an American actor known for his horror film roles and his appearances playing a number of characters in the Star Trek franchise.-Early life:...
as Colin Dunlap, The Clerk - Michael Deak as Abominable Snowman
See also
- Merlin and the Book of BeastsMerlin and the Book of Beasts-Plot:An evil sorcerer Mordred takes over Camelot leaving destruction and death in his path with his Book of Beast...
(2009) - Beyond Loch NessBeyond Loch NessBeyond Loch Ness is a 2008 horror television movie directed by Paul Ziller and written from Ziller and Jason Bourque.-Plot:James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed...
- Yeti: Curse of the Snow DemonYeti: Curse of the Snow DemonYeti: Curse of the Snow Demon is a 2008, made-for-television horror film broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on June 9, 2008. Starring Carly Pope, Peter DeLuise, Ona Grauer, and Crystal Lowe, the film centers around a group of people whom, after crashing their plane into the Himalayan Mountains,...
- Beowulf & GrendelBeowulf & GrendelBeowulf & Grendel is a 2005 film loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. Filmed in Iceland and directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, it stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma...
External links
- 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)