Well after 'Big Foot and the Hendersons' he kind of went off the rails...

#21 - Abominable - 2006

"Another Darwin Award comin' up."
-- Clerk

Here's a question for you. Do you like you Movie posters hand drawn? And now do you like films about oversized monsters tearing shit (Mainly people) up? Well then his is the film for you!

'Abominable' is the story of a man called Preston who returns to the Mountains with his Carer after an Accident took his Wife some years before. He heads back to his Cabin and is joined by a party of girls next door. When his Carer heads out Preston goes all 'Rear Window' style and watches the Girls, and is pretty sure he sees one get abducted.

Oh and there's a big Yeti on the loose. Or as a Scientist in the film describes it, "Bigger than Bigfoot".

'Abominable' was not the film I was expecting at all. For starters Preston is crippled, and confined to a Wheelchair for the whole film. It's basically 'Rear Window' meets...a really big murderous Yeti. Yeah that's about right. Secondly the characters are reasonably intelligent. Being as Preston is confined to a Wheelchair (And locked in while his Dickish Carer goes out), the first thing he does when he spots trouble is contact the Police. Yeah it might seem sensible to you are me but it's a refreshing change over having someone just investigate or brush it off as something else. The Devil is in the details as they say.

The film is unashamedly a B-Movie (How could it not be?) and is nicely handled by Ryan Schifrin, and if his name sounds familiar it's because he's the son of legendary Composer Lalo Schifrin (Who did the score for 'Enter The Dragon' and the 'Mission: Impossible' theme, and also provides the score here). The monster itself is of course just a guy in a suit (A very large guy too) but at the end of the day would you expect anything else? It also features appearences from Jeffrey Coombs ('Re-Animator'), Lance Henrickson ('Aliens', 'Millennium') and Paul Gleason, better known as the Principal in 'The Breakfast Club'. Also, not many films can boast the death of a Man having his face bitten off...vertically.

It also has an incredibly hokey (Yet very funny) final shot that makes me long for the sequel.