Abominable – Entsetzlich (2006)

Abominable – Entsetzlich: Directed by Ryan Schifrin. With Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley, Karin Anna Cheung. A man, crippled in a climbing accident, returns to his cabin in the woods as part of his rehabilitation, but he wasn’t prepared for the immanent onslaught.

“Up until recently i was always disappointed in the lack of true monster movies, some of my best early memories were of staying up late to watch such films as u0026quot;Snowbeastu0026quot;, u0026quot;the abominable snowmanu0026quot;, the hammer movies, abbot and Costello and a little more recently u0026quot;the howlingu0026quot; and u0026quot;Dog Soldiersu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTodays monster movies (i.e u0026quot;cursedu0026quot; and u0026quot;the relicu0026quot;) are little more than a barrel of poor cgi effects and some throwaway supernatural plot, Long gone were the days of prosthetics and make up effects. Monsters that you could reach out and touch and not soon to be dated computer generated beasties.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut just a few weeks ago i discovered u0026quot;Abominableu0026quot; and was genuinely excited at the prospect of a yeti tearing around a mountain side resort.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story taking on a more unconventional form of viewing, revolves around a crippled ex mountain climber u0026quot;Prestonu0026quot; released from a mental institution and left in the care of orderly u0026quot;Otisu0026quot;, Together they stay in Prestonu0026#39;s mountain home not far from the mountain were he was crippled and his wife killed in a climbing accident.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNaturaly Preston unable to leave his accommodation due to his condition starts to witness the grisly acts of the local yeti, with Otis naturally believing him to be a nut job and trying to sedate him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is were the film works best, with our hero unable to leave his home he as to find resourceful ways of warning his neighbours ( a house full of nubile young ladies. Yummy.) and nearly all the action taking place from his perspective out of his window.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is enormous fun through-out and has great twist ending ( maybe a little predictable, but if you plan on taking a monster film seriously, you shouldnu0026#39;t be watching one) The film as some great cameos from the likes of Lance Henricksen, Jeffrey Combs and Dee Wallace Stone and is directed by Ryan Schifrin son of Lalo Schifrin (The man behind the Enter the Dragon theme) who also provides the excellent score to the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo if you miss the good old days of monster movies give u0026quot;Abominableu0026quot; a whirl and relive those classic monster memories!”