While Otis goes back into town for some soy-milk, five young women arrive at a cabin across the way for a weekend bachelorette party. Preston starts to notice strange occurrences in the woods, and with the use of his binoculars, he witnesses the girls getting picked off by the legendary Big Foot.

Abominable aired on the Sci-Fi channel, which seemed appropriate because it played like a made-for-tv movie. Schifrin's direction appeared as if he were reading straight out of a film-school text book entitled "How To Direct A Horror Movie". The scares were predictable, and for the most part, unoriginal. The concept of the Rear Window homage was clever. Unfortunately, the plot was basic and remained undeveloped. Indeed, the scenes in-between the monster attacks were nothing more than "filler" until the next Big Foot sighting. Moreover, Schifrin will need to study a few more Hitchcock films before he ever comes close to achieving Hitchcock's level of suspense.

He would have also done well to show the monster a little less frequently - or at least in a darker light. Big Foot looked like a dude in a monster suit, and the more they showed him, the faker he looked.

There are a few redeeming qualities to the movie, however. The acting was fairly well-done, particularly for a low-budget monster movie. Jeffery Combs (The Re-Animator, Castle Freak), plays the part of an odd-ball gas station attendant "Buddy" and puts on a very amusing performance.

There are also a couple good scenes of gore, with a "face biting" bit that's particularly memorable. And any film that has a gratuitous nude scene with scream-queen Tiffany Shepis gets bonus points in my book. Notwithstanding, Schifrin wrote and directed an average and ordinary monster movie (hence the "C" grade). He does show some promise, if only he would just ditch his old film-school text books, and venture a little ways outside the box.