History Film / Abominable

No relation to the [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation Dreamworks]]/Pearl Studio [[WesternAnimation/{{Abominable}} film]] of the same name, nor does it have anything to do with the [[Literature/{{Abominable}} book series]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Amanda, despite a few cuts on her face from her SuperWindowJump, still looks reasonably attractive. Not even flying through the windshield later messes her face up that much, a big splash of blood aside. Even with the facial injuries—blackened left eye, scars along her right jaw and temple—in the image above, she is still gorgeous.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Amanda, despite a few cuts on her face from her SuperWindowJump, still looks reasonably attractive. Not even flying through the windshield later messes her face up that much, a big splash of blood aside.

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%%* BareYourMidriff: CJ.

No relation to the [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation Dreamworks]]/Pearl studio [[WesternAnimation/{{Abominable}} film]] of the same name, nor does it have anything to do with the [[Literature/{{Abominable}} book series]].

No relation to the Creator/DreamworksSKG [[WesternAnimation/{{Abominable}} film]] of the same name, nor does it have anything to do with the [[Literature/{{Abominable}} book series]].

No relation to the Creator/{{Dreamworks}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Abominable}} film]] of the same name, nor does it have anything to do with the [[Literature/{{Abominable}} book series]].

* AgentScully: both the sheriff and Otis.

* AwesomeMccoolname: Otis Wilhelm and Ziegler Dane.
* AnAxeToGrind: Otis attacks the beast with an axe at one point.

* CoolOldGuy: Buddy and Zeigler.

%%* HopeSpot: finding Karen alive.

* PositiveDiscrimination: The black deputy is the smartest one, and the only cop to aid the protagonists. Also, while a bit of an AsianAirhead and ScreamingWoman CJ is fairly competent and likable, and aside from Amanda the only of the girls to try and fight back.

* BBCQuarry: Bronson Canyon is used for the Yeti's lair.

* TrueLoveIsBoring: CJ and Amanda teasingly invoke this during the wedding toast, with Amanda beginning it with “to the first one of us to fall” and CJ adding “ball and chain baby”.

* MisplacedWildlife: If you go by the title and Dr. Suessmeyer's belief, the monster is not a North American sasquatch, but a yeti...which raises the question of what it's doing in a completely different continent away from its home.

* MeaningfulName:
** Billy Hoss (a word sometimes used as a slang for horse), a livestock farmer.
** “Dick” Halderman, the unpleasant Sheriff whose final line is a reference to perceived manliness.
** Tracy, who leaves behind traces of an attack when [[spoiler: the monster gets her]].
** While likely coincidental, Otis Wilhem’s initials spell ow.

* FamousLastWords:
** "[[PleaseDontLeaveMe Please don't leave me, it's coming back... It's coming for me... Please don't.]]" [[spoiler:Karen]]
** "Godammit! You gotta be shitting me!" [[spoiler:Farmer Billy Hoss]]
** "Yeah, I saw it! Jesus H. Christ! You satisfied?!" [[spoiler:Ziegler Dane]]
** "Okay, you smelly son of a bitch, you win! I'm gonna leave now! We'll pretend this never happened! Alright? Alright!" [[spoiler:Buddy the Clerk]]
** "[[DefiantToTheEnd Die, you fucker!]]" [[spoiler:CJ]]
** "Hey, ass monkey! Eat this!" [[spoiler:Otis Wilhelm]]

''Abominable'' is a 2006 horror film written and directed by Ryan Schifrin, the son of composer Music/LaloSchifrin, and starring Matt [=McCoy=], Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/JeffreyCombs, Creator/RexLinn, Creator/PhilMorris, and Creator/LanceHenriksen.

* AdaptationalVillainy: This film portrays sasquatches as ''far'' more violent and destructive than traditional folklore depicts them. The sasquatch in this film is extremely violent and dangerous, being a bloodthirsty ManEater. In contrast, most folklore depicts Bigfoot as rather [[GentleGiant timid and peaceful]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] if you take the title and Dr. Suessmeyer's belief at face value and assume this is actually a yeti, as the yeti is traditionally depicted as far more violent than a North American sasquatch.

* AnkleDrag: Twice:

* BareYourMidriff: CJ.

* BlackBraAndPanties: Tracy.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: averted, there's bpoor reception, at least inside he houses, but Karens Phoenix comes in handy a lot.
* ChekhovsGunman: Hoss and Buddy, although not in a major way.

* DroppedABridgeOnHer:[[spoiler: Michelle]] gets the most abrupt death.
* DumbBlonde: Averted with Amanda, although Karen shows a little of it.

* HopeSpot: finding Karen alive.
* HypercompetentSidekick: [=McBride=] to Sheriff Halderman.

* MassOhCrap: The sheriff and his men at the end.

* OneWordTitle

* QuirkyCurls: Michelle and Tiffany.

* SuperWindowJump: How Amanda escapes the monster at one point.

** Based on an extended take of the scene where she tries to erase the smell of her smoking in the bathroom, it might not have even been pepper spray at all, but air freshener, which would make it far less effective, but still be painful to the eyes.

* StagParty: The weekend is an engagement party for Michelle at C.J.'s uncles cabin. While Michelle half-jokingly asks if he knows they're login to wreck it for the most part it' just an afternoon and evening of friends sitting around and reminiscing, drinking occasionally but not to excess (aside from a sen where they briefly chase each other around with spray foam).

* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: The other creatures didn't join in attacks. An optimistic, although unlikely, possibility is that the one we see was a white sheep and they might have taken bodies away out of respect or to help instead of to eat them]].

''Abominable'' is not a groundbreaking film by any means, and the effects aren't that great (the monster costume makes the Yeti look like what someone aptly described as "an angry Creator/BrianDennehy that wants to rape someone"), but it is well-directed, decently acted and has some really wonderful suspenseful moments, making excellent use of the claustrophobia of Preston's house and the deep, impenetrable darkness of the woods without.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: the other creatures given how they didn’t join in attacks. An optimistic, although unlikely, possibility is that the one we see was a white sheep and they might have taken bodies away out of respect or to help instead of to eat them]].

* CoolCar: CJ's mountain keep with its flame paint job.

* CoolCar: Cj's mountain keep with its flame paint job.

* ForWantOfANail: if Michelle had hidden in the bathtub like in the deleted scenes, then the monster would have had a harder time getting at her.

* GreenAroundTheGills: the altitude and bumpy car ride leave Amanda kind of queasy. Also she vomits after narrowly escaping the creature.

* IgnoredExpert: zigzagged with Dr. Suessmeyer, the cypotozoologist on the ConvenientlyTimedBroadcast, as he does at least get on TV to talk and he certainly isn't ignored by Preston.

* MakeoutKids: dialogue implies that either Tracy or Michelle was one with a boy behind the lockers in high school as the women reminisce about their school days.