If you've ever said "I'd like to watch a version of Rear Window which is not the Hitchcock classic but some horrible schlock where the killer is a Bigfoot", well, I've got great news for you.
Abominable - which has at the moment an astonishingly generous IMDb rating of 5/10 - is bad. No, scratch that: it's *awful*. There are fleeting moments of "so bad it's good" amusement, but they are few and far between.
In this atrocious horror flick, wheelchair-bound Preston (Matt McCoy) spies from his cabin in the woods a group of teens hunted down by a Bigfoot, played by a man in a ludicrously cheesy costume (I spent most of his screen time looking for the zipper).
Apart for a few unintentionally hilarious scenes, Abominable is the worst kind of bad film: the flaccid one. Action is no fun, everything is cheap and lazy. It's the sloppy kind of stuff which makes every viewer think he has a shot at becoming director or writer (" Hey, I couldn't do worse!").
Just because its premise is dumb, a movie doesn't HAVE to be incompetent - see Marshall's Dog Soldiers, another horror flick set in a forest with men-eating monsters. It's not Crime and Punishment, obviously, but it shows how even this kind of silly plot can be entertaining when made with craft and care.
2/10
Abominable - which has at the moment an astonishingly generous IMDb rating of 5/10 - is bad. No, scratch that: it's *awful*. There are fleeting moments of "so bad it's good" amusement, but they are few and far between.
In this atrocious horror flick, wheelchair-bound Preston (Matt McCoy) spies from his cabin in the woods a group of teens hunted down by a Bigfoot, played by a man in a ludicrously cheesy costume (I spent most of his screen time looking for the zipper).
Apart for a few unintentionally hilarious scenes, Abominable is the worst kind of bad film: the flaccid one. Action is no fun, everything is cheap and lazy. It's the sloppy kind of stuff which makes every viewer think he has a shot at becoming director or writer (" Hey, I couldn't do worse!").
Just because its premise is dumb, a movie doesn't HAVE to be incompetent - see Marshall's Dog Soldiers, another horror flick set in a forest with men-eating monsters. It's not Crime and Punishment, obviously, but it shows how even this kind of silly plot can be entertaining when made with craft and care.
2/10