History Film / Abominable

* [[AlmostDeadGuy Almost Dead Girl]]: [[spoiler:Karen]] is found in the monster's cave by Ziegler. [[spoiler:She manages to gasp out "It's coming back!" before the monster returns and drags her away.]]

* DeathByCameo: Pretty much all of the recognizable actors have only one or two scenes before becoming monster fodder.

* DownerEnding: See TheEndOrIsIt
* TheEndOrIsIt: The monster has been slain and Preston and Amanda have been driven off in ambulances, but when the cops investigate the crashed station wagon, the monster's body is [[NeverFoundTheBody gone]]! [[spoiler:Suddenly, they find themselves surrounded by [[FromBadToWorse dozens and dozens]] of Yetis!]]

* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half the Woman She Used to Be]]: [[spoiler:Tracy gets pulled stomach-first through a window too small for her to fit. So the monster ''makes'' her fit, snapping her in half backwards.]]

* LateToTheParty: The police.

* RearWindowHomage[=/=]RearWindowWitness: See JustForFun/XMeetsY.

* SelfDefenseless: C.J. maces the monster at one point. [[spoiler:It doesn't do much more than annoy him, prompting him to utilize his GiantFootOfStomping on her.]]

* HandicappedBadass: Although he's TheLoad most of the time, anyone who can kill a Yeti despite being paralyzed below the waist is pretty {{Badass}}. Go, Preston!

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Film/RearWindow'' meets a monster movie, with an abominable snowman instead of a murderer.

* RearWindowHomage: See JustForFun/XMeetsY.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/RearWindow'' meets a monster movie, with an abominable snowman instead of a murderer.

* DudeNotFunny: Sheriff Halderman has a bunch of unsolved crimes on his hands, and then one of his deputies jokingly suggests it was the "Flatwoods Monster." The Sheriff is ''not'' happy with his flippant attitude.
-->'''Halderman''': Zip it, would, ya, dodo? I don't wanna hear no more gibberish about no Flatwoods Monster.\\
'''Parker''': It's just a joke, Sheriff.\\
'''Halderman''': Oh, yeah, real funny, hahaha. Monsters are a real hoot!

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ziegler's explanation of the Website/DarwinAwards, a very long monologue about a guy who superglues himself to a rhino.

* ActorAllusion: Sheriff Halderman's coffee mug says "Don't Mess With the Bull." He's played by Paul Gleason, who said that in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.

->"There is something out there..."

* AccidentalPervert: When Preston sees the monster outside with his binoculars, he calls Otis over. But by the time Otis gets there, the monster is gone, and Otis thinks Preston was watching Tracy taking a shower through the (surprisingly large) bathroom window across the street

* ShoutOut: Sheriff Halderman's coffee mug says "Don't Mess With the Bull." He's played by Paul Gleason, who said that in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.

-->'''Clerk''': Another Darwing Award, comin' up...

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: One of the main reasons people die in droves. Ironically, what would seem to be the most egregious example, Ziegler entering the cave, ends up being a subversion. [[spoiler:The monster isn't hom and he finds the wounded Karen, and it's ''her'' who gets killed when the Yeti returns, while he manages to escape.]]

* DeathByCameo: Pretty much all of the recognizable actors have only one or two scenes before become monster fodder.

* AnAxeToGrind: Otis attacks the beast with an axe at one point.

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

In the town of Flatwoods, Preston Rogers is being brought back home to Flatwoods after months of rehabilitative therapy following a climbing accident at the infamous (and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast poorly named]]) Suicide Rock, an incident which killed his wife and has forever cost Preston the use of his legs; he is a paraplegic, confined to a wheelchair. His doctors have placed him in the care of [[JerkAss dickweed]] physical therapist Otis Wilhelm.

When Otis leaves to run to the grocery store, a bored Preston decides to do some birdwatching with his binoculars when some college girls drive up to occupy the rented cabin across the road for the weekend. With little else to do that doesn't remind him of his wife, Preston alternates between watching the girls and watching the woods. And when one of the girls, Karen, Preston sees, out of the corner of his eye, something big and hairy swoop in and snatch her, and by the time he brings the binoculars up again, Karen is gone leaving only her phone behind.

* DudeNotFunny: Sheriff Halderman doesn't take kindly to his deputies joking around on the job.
-->'''Halderman''': I don't wanna hear no more gibberish about no Flatwoods Monster.\\

* DudeNotFunny: Sheriff Halderman doesn't like people cracking jokes about the "Flatwoods Monster" when they have ''real'' crimes to investigate.

-->'''Parker''': [''chastened''] It's just a joke, Sheriff.\\
-->'''Halderman''': Oh, yeah, real funny, hahaha. Monsters are a real hoot!

* ShowerScene: Tracy takes one [[spoiler:before the monster drags her through the [[Dangerouswindows window]]]], as part of Preston's AccidentalPervert scene.

* [[AlmostDeadGuy Almost Dead Girl]]: [[spoiler:Karen]] is found in the monster's cave by Ziegler. [[spoiler:He tries to tend to her, but then the monster returns and drags her away.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Amanda, despite a few cuts on her face from her SuperWindowJump, still looks reasonable attractive.

* MistakenForPervert: A couple of times.
** When Preston tries to yell across the street to warn the girls that Karen got taken away, C.J. sees him and calls a creep and closes the blinds.
** When Preston sees the monster outside with his binoculars, he calls Otis over. But by the time Otis gets there, the monster is gone, and Otis thinks Preston was watching Tracy taking a shower through the (surprisingly large) bathroom window across the street.