the leading man is my tpye

Brilliant and touching

Blistering performances.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

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

I searched a long time to find an uncut version of this flick, unavailable here were I am living and on the net you could only find VHS versions but in the NTSC format. Luckily I met a guy who could deliver me the DVD of it. This is odd, the editing is weird, some shots are used a few times again and again. Then suddenly he's running after the girl again he killed earlier, same sequence. But somehow the movie didn't bored me like it did with others. i have seen worser then this, count on that. it's up to you to choose. You can watch the 2 minutes before the starting credits. They have edited all the gore in it, just like a trailer or teaser. Or you can watch the movie and see all the gore again. The storyline is easy to understand, mom has a tumor and by coughing it comes out, but somehow the tumor lives, made me think of brain damage only here they used real effect, brain damage was stop motion. The tumor find his way to her kid, he swallows it and start becoming a killer. But before he kills the movie is half way, before that it's blah blah and driving around, only 2 killings, the gore appears in the second part. The blood flows frequently and in a gory way. Any how, i was happy to see this cult flick and I even had to laugh with it sometime, wait until the preacher is in the toilet-room. Be sure to have a decent copy because it's a transfer from NTSC VHS to PAL DVD.

Pious Catholic lady watches a TV sermon given by a shady televangelist, which apparently causes her to hack up a bloody lung cookie. The slimy little tumor wanders about for some time, and ultimately grows into an absurd looking thing which resembles a gooey cousin of H.R. Pufnstuff with long spiked teeth. The flesh hungry beast takes residence within her kitchen cabinets and telepathically enslaves her son, forcing him to commit murders to feed it. It's really hard to believe that this preposterous storyline actually made it off the drawing board to materialize as something somewhat similar to a motion picture. Bear in mind, THE ABOMINATION is entirely under-the-barrel in countless ways, but to think that someone believed they could make a legit feature about this huge, lumpy puppet is bewildering...it's the most rubbish excuse for a monster since THE CREEPING TERROR(and even THAT one looks good next to THE...*cough*...ABOMINATION). Mercy, there are SO many things to mention(yes...all bad)...the cottage cheese rolling out of the headless neck...the ultrasubminimalist Casio score...the montage at the start of the film that shows you everything you're about to see...the actress named GAYE BOTTOMS(poor girl... *snicker). In short, this is something SPECIAL, folks. Oh, yes it is. Special in that magical "short-bus kid" sort of way. Bear it and grin...this is a die-laughing experience.