Abominable

Abominable (2006): Here is a first time effort by the son of legendary movie scorer, Lalo Schifrin that actually works pretty well. The director described the movie as ‘Bigfoot meets Rear Window’ and he hits his target pretty well. The flick goes for old fashioned suspense for the first two thirds or so of the film and then goes for the jugular in the final third. It seems that the lead character (Matt McCoy) lost his wife and became paralyzed from the waist down after an accident while climbing a local mountain. He now questions why he is still alive and has been under a doctor’s care (the type that mess with your head) and has been sent home for therapeutic reasons. He is coming home under the care of a callous care giver for the first time since his rock bouncing incident. Soon a gaggle of giggling college gals arrives at the home next store for a fun week-end. As in Rear Window, he soon starts using binoculars to voyeur the surroundings and sees a big hairy thing make off with one of the gals. The remaining gals think his is a peeping Tom pervert and his care giver thinks he’s crazy. Much of the movie builds suspense as things get more desperate until finally the hairy beast attacks with gusto. Cast depopulation is appalling. However, this is really an old fashioned movie with real people instead of brainless greasy teens as leads and there are few CGI effects. What you do get is a big man in a big hairy rubber suit, but this is done pretty well. And there are great cameos by genre veterans Lance Hendriksen and Jeffrey Coombs. The movie is rated R for: multiple ripping entrails, Bigfoot, big hand, big claw, gratuitous shower scene with orbulation and bumulation, gratuitous snatching naked shower gal though a window while folded the wrong way (gal, not window), smoking while on oxygen, sheriff sarcasm, death by Chevrolet, face chewing, neck chewing, and for the excessive bone litter found in Bigfoot’s home.