Wonderful Movie

Just perfect...

Excellent but underrated film

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although this is a terrible movie, generally speaking, it's not a complete failure. Maybe the director could have done a better job with a higher budget, who knows, but the quite straightforward story line and the gore scenes make this movie watchable. The editing is horrendous and amateurish, as well as the acting, though the actress playing the mother, and also the reverend, are slightly better than the rest of the cast. Some parts of this movie look more like a comedy (i.e. the infamous toilet scene), though I suppose this was not the director's intention. Also, there were a few shots of nature that were nicely done, giving the movie an extremely weird feel, when juxtaposed with the gore. One of the few movies, along with Cannibal Holocaust and Evil Dead, that gave me nausea. (2.5/10)

The abomination which makes all things desolate... The abomination which makes all things desolate... The abomination which makes all things desolate... You know, this one has me as close to stumped as I've been by any film in a good wee while and I'm not even sure why. Yes the plot is strange, but I watch strange films all the time. Yes it's inept, but I watch inept films all the time. But few things are quite like The Abomination and its difficult to explain. Its a film I guess in its own world, with a different beat to ours. Some films aim for some facsimile of the real world, they beat the same as the viewer or near enough and its comforting. Then there are films that beat faster, or jerkier and the viewer goes on a ride, gets twisted around, the whole roller-coaster bit be it because of fast pace or just tricks in the editing suite. Then there are films like The Abomination that just don't fit, their beat isn't just off, less a beat in fact than fell subterranean pulse, a deep wrongness you can feel in your bones, that trembles you till you feel like you're near turned inside out. Pretty much everything in The Abomination has a screw loose. The plot, involving a televangelist, carnivorous tumour, possession and bloody murder, monotone acting, static photography, repeated shots of a horse occasionally varied with other cattle, lots of shots of driving (including drunk driving, naughty naughty). Then there's the music that sounds like a rip off of a fourth rate Italian horror synth score but occasionally switches to library organs, as well as awkward post dubbed sound and whiny flashback narration. The gore and monster are the highlights though, throat slicing, pitchforking and more, with lots of blood strewn about and a good portion of actual guts in one or two scenes. The monster is a suitably grotesque red and toothy beast, wisely never shown in its entirety it instead infests a kitchen, its groping tentacles and grisly maw escaping where they can. It would be awesome, except that the film opens with a scattily edited highlights reel, gore flash-forwards interspersed with a repeated shot of the protagonist waking from a bad dream. There's probably comment to be made on nested realities but I'll save my words as I doubt any such ideas were intended. Even with the spoilers and a slow first half though, this one stands up as a truly weird and warping affair, an experience ideal for serious 80's trash junkies. Strong 7/10

When some people watch a horror movie they expect it to be a slasher or it is not a horror movie. This movie is heavily influenced by Shivers. What it keeps it original is it mixes this with Christianity. The abomination features one of the most original monsters I have seen in many years.Also the music is superb and sets the movie up very well.The basic story is that a man is having problems with his mother watching an evangelist. After this the mother coughs up a tumour which turns into this monster the abomination. The son has to keep the abomination alive and to do so he needs blood, sinew and flesh. He goes around killing as many people as possible to quench the abominations thirst for blood.This is a really low budget shocker and if you like you movies really cheap and off the wall this might be for you.

Man, oh man, does the title for this horrendous hunk of low-budget gore-drenched horror junk aptly sum up the appalling dearth of quality to be found herein. A huge, toothy, tentacled carnivorous beast forces a dorky, peevish, totally unlikeable and unappealing wimpy teenage boy with dark sunglasses and a terribly unattractive shaggy hair cut (the obnoxious Scott Davis) to viciously kill a plethora of poor innocent folks so the foul thingie can ravenously devour their crunchy, scrumptious bodies. Yummy, yummy, yummy! Everything about this shot-in-Super 8 atrocity wallows in the gutter-dwelling Amateur City dumps: we've got profoundly putrid acting, ugly, grainy, static cinematography by Richard Strait, awful (non)direction by Bret McCormick (hiding behind the pseudonym Max Raven), a gruelingly draggy pace, Davis' exceptionally lame stream-of-consciousness voice over commentary (for your intense viewing displeasure Davis' trebly mewling tenor affects a piercing nasal whine that could shatter immense sets of fine china if it was cranked up a few decibels higher), an excruciatingly high-pitched, melodramatic, extremely tough-on-the-ears score by Kim and Richard Davis and John Hudek, a phony-looking monster that's a really sad sight to behold, an inane opening nightmare montage which tersely sums up the entire plot and thus robs the rest of the picture of any suspense or surprises (!), and the messy, disjointed narrative is not only hard to stomach, but also difficult to follow as well. Granted, the outrageously moist and juicy make-up effects by Dark FX LTD. are suitably gruesome -- sliced open throats emit a copious jet stream of blood, a guy gets fatally whacked upside the head with a shovel, some old bat has her hand bitten off by the monster, the sniveling limp dishrag kid uses a pitchfork to feed the beast a handy helping of gleaming guts, that sort of sweet, charming, harmless stuff -- but alas are too hokey to be remotely convincing or upsetting. Early in the flick our utterly unsympathetic passive protagonist remarks, "I thought I was gonna vomit." Yeah, I felt like puking too, buddy, primarily because this flick is so dishearteningly shoddy and ridiculous that not even a hardened bad film buff like yours truly can discern anything faintly enjoyable or entertaining about it. It's a complete, indefensible loser.