‘Yeti/Abominable’ wastes no time with build-up or character development; we can deal with all that once the threat has been established – which it is, straight away. We catch up later with the various personalities and back-stories of the characters later on during a lull in the varied attacks from the white furred central character.
The soundtrack is very exciting, even if it is so far over-the-top compared to some of the action/gore scenes, it threatens to drift into parody. For all his low-budget scariness, there are moments where the audience is invited to empathise with the Yeti, and there are some good twists in the story.
Whilst never attempting to reinvent the shaggy monster myth, this is a commendable production, featuring some good, crisp location filming and moments of gut-wrenching gore. Despite some occasionally dodgy acting, I enjoyed it. My score is 7 out of 10.
If you are a horror aficionado and like genuinely scary, maybe creepy or unsettlingly great well done films, look elsewhere....
A plastic hairy suit is as good as it gets with the usual excuse for a trip to the snow..a couple of poor quality gory moments and we are done
Avoid if you can