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Yes. This movie is HORRIBLE. Most people aren't going to sit down and watch this. But for those horror movie fans who seek out the best of the worst, this is pure GOLD.
The bad: The monotone, monotonous narration throughout most of the movie. The acting. The cheesy effects and keeping them on camera for way too long. The sound (the foley was seriously obsessed with footsteps in parts of this thing. It's ridiculous.)
The good: The camera work. The editing. The cheesy effects (some of them are actually pretty good, but most are laugh out loud funny). The music wasn't that bad.
I think that gives most people a rundown of whether they'll be able to handle it or not.
Imagine a film student in the 80s making a no budget horror movie about a man-eating tumor and maybe you'll give it a tiny bit more respect. Just a tiny bit.
I'm honestly not sure whether it's unintentionally hilarious or whether they meant it to be as funny as it is in parts. Definitely good to riff on. Good luck.
The bad: The monotone, monotonous narration throughout most of the movie. The acting. The cheesy effects and keeping them on camera for way too long. The sound (the foley was seriously obsessed with footsteps in parts of this thing. It's ridiculous.)
The good: The camera work. The editing. The cheesy effects (some of them are actually pretty good, but most are laugh out loud funny). The music wasn't that bad.
I think that gives most people a rundown of whether they'll be able to handle it or not.
Imagine a film student in the 80s making a no budget horror movie about a man-eating tumor and maybe you'll give it a tiny bit more respect. Just a tiny bit.
I'm honestly not sure whether it's unintentionally hilarious or whether they meant it to be as funny as it is in parts. Definitely good to riff on. Good luck.
- WisdomsHammer
- Jun 16, 2017
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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.
The abomination (1986) is a ultra cheap and rare horror movie!!! It's about this young man called Cody who lives with his religious mother, the mum coughs up this tumour which starts turning into a monster, the monster controls Cody to kill his friends and bring it food to make it stronger, can Cody fight the monster or will he be just become another victim!!! The film is so bizarre, ultra low budget, it throws in some really fake gore and there's this music that keeps turning up during the movie, music that seems to stay in your head for ages!!! The Abomination is very bad, no doubt about it, but it's really funny and has entertainment value, it's in the "so bad it's good" bracket, and therefore i'll give this Abomination 5/10.
- cool_cool_1
- Feb 16, 2006
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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 something resembling a gooey hard-luck 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 bewildering that this unquantifiable Super-8 morceau-de-merde actually made it off the drawing board to materialize as something vaguely similar to a motion picture. It's as if some guy took a good, long look at his tatty old bean-bag chair, and thought to himself... "I could totally make a movie about this thing." Good God, it's the most rubbish excuse for a monster since THE CREEPING TERROR, which is a marvel of FX wizardry next to the *cough*..."ABOMINATION"...*cough*.
Hopelessly deficient at every juncture of production, and beyond...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 like a kid who eats crayons. Prepare to pee your pants in a fit of insuppressible laughter.
If you enjoy THE ABOMINATION, you might also like GUZOO: THE THING FORSAKEN BY GOD, a similar, but more proficiently made Japanese gorefest about a formless monster chowing down on girls like they're acid at Woodstock.
It's bewildering that this unquantifiable Super-8 morceau-de-merde actually made it off the drawing board to materialize as something vaguely similar to a motion picture. It's as if some guy took a good, long look at his tatty old bean-bag chair, and thought to himself... "I could totally make a movie about this thing." Good God, it's the most rubbish excuse for a monster since THE CREEPING TERROR, which is a marvel of FX wizardry next to the *cough*..."ABOMINATION"...*cough*.
Hopelessly deficient at every juncture of production, and beyond...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 like a kid who eats crayons. Prepare to pee your pants in a fit of insuppressible laughter.
If you enjoy THE ABOMINATION, you might also like GUZOO: THE THING FORSAKEN BY GOD, a similar, but more proficiently made Japanese gorefest about a formless monster chowing down on girls like they're acid at Woodstock.
- EyeAskance
- Aug 16, 2003
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If anyone is reading this review, it means one of two possible things.
One- You are one of the few poor souls who sat through all 90 excruciating minutes of this grade-Z garbage about a mutant lung tumor that transforms itself into a large rubbery creature with teeth, who then resides in a young hick's kitchen cabinets, where it hypnotizes him into killing people for food. If this is the case, there isn't much I can do for you except for to say how sorry I am that your taste in cinema led you to this film. At least your aren't alone. Along with myself, I have three friends who watched this with me, who probably aren't my friends anymore.
Two- You are a horror movie fan who saw this film sitting on your local video store shelves, just begging you to rent it, and you have come to this most excellent site to get some information on it before whipping out your rental card and a couple of dollars. Unlike above, THIS I can do something about. PLEASE. I BEG OF YOU. DO NOT RENT THIS MOVIE!!! Let it lie unwatched on the shelf, where hopefully, it will gather enough dust that the cleaning staff will mistake it for an overgrown dustbunny, and quickly place it in the trash, where it may one day find it's way to the local landfill. Once there, with just a little luck, it will degrade and provide nourishment for some bottom-feeding life form who cant find any thing else better to feed on, like used coffee filters.
If I can only save one person from the fate I suffered because of this movie, my torment will all seem worthwhile. Friends are important in this day and age.
One- You are one of the few poor souls who sat through all 90 excruciating minutes of this grade-Z garbage about a mutant lung tumor that transforms itself into a large rubbery creature with teeth, who then resides in a young hick's kitchen cabinets, where it hypnotizes him into killing people for food. If this is the case, there isn't much I can do for you except for to say how sorry I am that your taste in cinema led you to this film. At least your aren't alone. Along with myself, I have three friends who watched this with me, who probably aren't my friends anymore.
Two- You are a horror movie fan who saw this film sitting on your local video store shelves, just begging you to rent it, and you have come to this most excellent site to get some information on it before whipping out your rental card and a couple of dollars. Unlike above, THIS I can do something about. PLEASE. I BEG OF YOU. DO NOT RENT THIS MOVIE!!! Let it lie unwatched on the shelf, where hopefully, it will gather enough dust that the cleaning staff will mistake it for an overgrown dustbunny, and quickly place it in the trash, where it may one day find it's way to the local landfill. Once there, with just a little luck, it will degrade and provide nourishment for some bottom-feeding life form who cant find any thing else better to feed on, like used coffee filters.
If I can only save one person from the fate I suffered because of this movie, my torment will all seem worthwhile. Friends are important in this day and age.
I have seen a lot of movies, but this is definitely the worst without a doubt. DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. It begins with a quick summary of all things that will happen in the movie(then why keep watching?) and a lot of scenes that are duplicated over and over again. And besides that we have a ULTRA weak story, REALLY BAD music that will never go out of your head(I saw this movie a year ago, only one time). Then we have several scenes(OF A HORSE!!!) that has nothing to do with the story at all. And at last there's a scene in which a cat are forced into a toilet with a massive amount of violence... horrible This movie is a abomination itself and IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE.....AND I MEAN IT. It has passed a year since a saw it, and still I'm getting horrible flashbacks...at any time!
You should not call this a movie...instead torture of worst kind invented on earth.
You cannot describe how awful this movie is... it's an experience...and you should classify it as unhealthy.
I give it 1 out of 10, but if it was possible I would give it minus 10000
You should not call this a movie...instead torture of worst kind invented on earth.
You cannot describe how awful this movie is... it's an experience...and you should classify it as unhealthy.
I give it 1 out of 10, but if it was possible I would give it minus 10000
- johan_norberg
- Aug 5, 2001
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I feel they should have honored this movie which a much more appealing title
Something like "The touching tale of a boy and his tumor", for example
or maybe even "The barf that ate my friends and family"! Either way you look at it, this has got to be one of the sickest and most demented movies someone ever thought up! Following the good old 80's splatter rules, "The Abomination" totally ignores atmosphere and substance, going straight for an immeasurable amount of gore. The opening sequence alone already contains more blood and guts than a hundred other horror films and easily offended people will immediately stop watching. This vicious intro is a compilation of the film' grossest moments and for some incomprehensible reason it completely spoils the rest of the movie before it even properly begun. "The Abomination" introduces us to a family of white trash in the wastelands of America. An adolescent boy with a dead end job and a mother whose obsessed by a TV-guru. One day, mommy pukes out a tumor and it immediately takes possession of the boy. The constantly growing tumor forces the boy to kill people and serve their bodies as lunch! Call me insane but I somewhat like basic idea
It's more or less a very perverted update of the "Little Shop of Horrors" premise, directed by Roger Corman in 1960. The budget is extremely low and the cast is a bunch of amateur hillbillies with nothing better to do. In case your horror-standards are low, this is perfect gory entertainment. We're talking axes, chainsaws, slit throats, severed limbs, pitchfork-killings and entire buckets of human guts (literally). In the film's most redundant sequence, we witness how the infamous TV-guru takes a dump in his office toilet
. Talking about tastelessness! One piece of advice: this movie goes well with beer. Loads and loads of beer
.and vomit bags.
There is NO reason to see this film. Not only are the effects super cheesy, but the acting is horrible, the 'suspenseful' parts are lame, and the film has little to no continuity. The Abomination makes 'Bloody New Year' look like a Scorsese film. I recommend watching paint dry over this movie.
I actually enjoyed this movie to an extent. I mean, the gore was actually very decent. The acting, however, was the exact opposite. It was horrible. It did indeed suck crap from a straw, but it had it's moments. What I want to know is why it showed all of the killings and stuff at the beginning? That was really my only complaint. I love the idea of the movie. A guy is mad at his mother because she is believing everything a TV evangelist is saying and all that. Then, she coughs up this weird little tumor. Then, it miraculously makes it into her son. It turns into a big funny looking monster and it's habitat is his cabinets and washing machine. Anyways, he is possessed, and the thing supposedly makes him kill people so he can feed "The Abomination!" What's really funny is the overrunning commentary where he's talking to a psychologist or whatever kind of doctor it is. I really don't recommend this movie at all. I just strive on total cheesefests.
- facesofdeath333
- Jul 14, 2006
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If you are reading this, you have probably already read the review given by Clint Walker. In it he mentioned his three friends who sat through this grueling ordeal along side him. I, unfortunately, was one of those cursed souls. I have seen some bad movies in my time, but this movie is at the top my list. I pray that God have pity on my soul for wasting what seemed like hours on this thing (I can't even call it a movie). I also need to know who gave this movie a 10. Once I find out who you are, and I will find out, may God have mercy on your soul as well.
- alistair-campbell7
- Jul 12, 2006
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A young man becomes possessed by THE ABOMINATION, unleashing unholy vengeance upon the unsuspecting. His hyper-religious mum is the most memorable victim of THE ABOMINATION. Her preacher's death is equally magnificent, though far too short.
In spite of this being an ultra-schlock, penniless non-production, the practical effects are nonetheless glorious! The monsters are -somewhat- reminiscent of the alien creatures in DEADLY SPAWN: Big rubber mouths full of big sharp teeth.
Gorehounds will shout with joy! Blood spurts, sprays, and oozes just about everywhere! The chainsaw / brain sequence alone should be enough to bring the love! There's also a grim, cruel atmosphere of ultimate doom! The sporadic camerawork, scattershot editing, and bonkers "plot" all have a role in achieving this miracle!
ADDED ANTI-BONUS: For reasons unknown, the makers of this film decided to include a seemingly endless montage of all the goriest, gushiest bits of the movie... At the beginning! They spoil their own movie!...
In spite of this being an ultra-schlock, penniless non-production, the practical effects are nonetheless glorious! The monsters are -somewhat- reminiscent of the alien creatures in DEADLY SPAWN: Big rubber mouths full of big sharp teeth.
Gorehounds will shout with joy! Blood spurts, sprays, and oozes just about everywhere! The chainsaw / brain sequence alone should be enough to bring the love! There's also a grim, cruel atmosphere of ultimate doom! The sporadic camerawork, scattershot editing, and bonkers "plot" all have a role in achieving this miracle!
ADDED ANTI-BONUS: For reasons unknown, the makers of this film decided to include a seemingly endless montage of all the goriest, gushiest bits of the movie... At the beginning! They spoil their own movie!...
- azathothpwiggins
- Aug 23, 2021
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This is one horrible movie! The "plot" is as follows: Little tumor-like organisms grow inside of human bodies. After living in the body for awile, these organisms come out (via the mouth) and turn into bloodthirsty, man-eating plants who have telepathic control over humans.
Being the gorehound that I am, I was immediately attracted to this movie by its cover (and, after reading the back of its box, its plot). Unfortunately, this movie wasn't even satisfying in the gore respect due to the gore's overall fakeness. In fact, the only thing that is satisfying about the movie is the unintensional humor derived from abysmally bad acting.
Skip this one or you'll just be wasting your time. My rating: 1 star out of 10 (somebody gave this ten stars???!!!)
Being the gorehound that I am, I was immediately attracted to this movie by its cover (and, after reading the back of its box, its plot). Unfortunately, this movie wasn't even satisfying in the gore respect due to the gore's overall fakeness. In fact, the only thing that is satisfying about the movie is the unintensional humor derived from abysmally bad acting.
Skip this one or you'll just be wasting your time. My rating: 1 star out of 10 (somebody gave this ten stars???!!!)
- Woodyanders
- Oct 3, 2006
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Why is it that so many horrors are lost and this garbage is out there for the world to see? It is shot on what would appear to be 16mm silent stock and everything is dubbed in. This makes the voices comical. Sadly, even the voice actors didn't know what they were doing. You may be able to laugh at it. Maybe. And the wash tub full of animal entrails being dipped up with a pitchfork might disgust you. Perhaps you'll laugh when Brother Fogg gets attacked while on the throne. You may even find amusement at the fact that there is probably half as much footage as the total length of this film, which means you get to see plenty of what our local b-movie devotees call "same-ing." Near the beginning we have what is known as the "Seven times wake up," in which character Cody is shown being jolted from his nightmare...yep, seven times. Remember, no sync sound, so the grunts and moans of Cody's 7 are enough to bring tears. Actually, I really enjoyed this movie. Who am I kidding?
- Bloodfeast
- Apr 19, 2000
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The Abomination has everything a gore-hound looks for, yet it is an absolute disaster. It starts off with a dream that looks more like a trailer, showing the goriest parts of the film. This makes it look cool and interesting, and you expect an entertaining gore-fest. However once the real film starts you will be praying for it to end.
There is tons of cheap gore and blood on display, but everything is let down by the acting (amongst other things!). The "actors" have no energy whatsoever - they're not even "so bad they're good". Some bad films can actually be hilarious to watch, such as The Suckling or They Don't Cut The Grass Anymore, but The Abomination is just dull and lifeless. The creature itself looks quite similar to The Deadly Spawn, and had more thought gone into the film itself this could have been a cult classic.
Never mind. The music is quite cool in a cheesy way, and gets stuck in your head. It's like something from an old computer game. As bad as it is, I would give The Abomination a watch if you can find it cheap (it's on DVD would you believe!) as it may be the most bizarre film you will ever see.
There is tons of cheap gore and blood on display, but everything is let down by the acting (amongst other things!). The "actors" have no energy whatsoever - they're not even "so bad they're good". Some bad films can actually be hilarious to watch, such as The Suckling or They Don't Cut The Grass Anymore, but The Abomination is just dull and lifeless. The creature itself looks quite similar to The Deadly Spawn, and had more thought gone into the film itself this could have been a cult classic.
Never mind. The music is quite cool in a cheesy way, and gets stuck in your head. It's like something from an old computer game. As bad as it is, I would give The Abomination a watch if you can find it cheap (it's on DVD would you believe!) as it may be the most bizarre film you will ever see.
An early offering of the kind of no-budget gore-filled American horror movies that would later fill the STV market in the '90s, THE ABOMINATION is a thoroughly tasteless offering which goes out of its way to offend and disgust at every opportunity. The film is extraordinarily cheap, so all acting, directing and camera-work is of an amateur standard, whilst the special effects are so phony as to be unbelievable – the fakeness of the whole thing is what makes the gore seem palatable.
The basic storyline involves a malignant devil-obsessed tumour which grows in cupboards and leads our wooden antagonist on a crime spree, as he saws through throats, chainsaws heads and generally gets blood and goo all over himself. Surprisingly the film lasts for the whole 1 ½ standard running time, which means there's a hell of a lot of padding (flowers, horses, etc.) and plenty of boredom as you wait around for something to happen.
Two things I liked about the film: the music, which was annoyingly catchy and repetitive, but I loved it, and the monster in the cupboard, which reminded me of the creature in THE DEADLY SPAWN, in a good way. Sadly, somebody decided to show all the best bits in the film's opening 'nightmare' sequence which must be seen to be believed; I thought I was watching a trailer. Otherwise you get just what you expect with this movie; a lot of cheapness, fakery and splashing blood and body bits. Weird and gruesome and thoroughly unrecommendable.
The basic storyline involves a malignant devil-obsessed tumour which grows in cupboards and leads our wooden antagonist on a crime spree, as he saws through throats, chainsaws heads and generally gets blood and goo all over himself. Surprisingly the film lasts for the whole 1 ½ standard running time, which means there's a hell of a lot of padding (flowers, horses, etc.) and plenty of boredom as you wait around for something to happen.
Two things I liked about the film: the music, which was annoyingly catchy and repetitive, but I loved it, and the monster in the cupboard, which reminded me of the creature in THE DEADLY SPAWN, in a good way. Sadly, somebody decided to show all the best bits in the film's opening 'nightmare' sequence which must be seen to be believed; I thought I was watching a trailer. Otherwise you get just what you expect with this movie; a lot of cheapness, fakery and splashing blood and body bits. Weird and gruesome and thoroughly unrecommendable.
- Leofwine_draca
- Jan 15, 2015
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This is a fun no-budget, direct-to-video amateur horror that's energetic, outrageous, and just competent enough technically to be watchable. The creature that materializes for no obvious reason (because the hero's mother watches TV evangelists too much?) is sort of a toothy puppet like the monster in "Little Shop of Horrors," and there is a lot of enthusiastic bloodletting.
The only thing that keeps it from being a minor classic of nonprofessional schlock filmmaking is that the film reaches a logical, full-circle end point, but just keeps going for another 20 minutes, outstaying its welcome. It's rare that a movie of this nature needs to be more than 80 minutes, and "The Abomination" doesn't have enough ideas to plow on to the 100-minute point--it remains lively but starts getting repetitious after a while.
Still, most movies like this are tolerable only in campy excerpt, or if watched with the benefit of a lot of alcohol, and by comparison this one is quite enjoyable if you can handle the extremely low production values and obviously less-than-serious intent.
The only thing that keeps it from being a minor classic of nonprofessional schlock filmmaking is that the film reaches a logical, full-circle end point, but just keeps going for another 20 minutes, outstaying its welcome. It's rare that a movie of this nature needs to be more than 80 minutes, and "The Abomination" doesn't have enough ideas to plow on to the 100-minute point--it remains lively but starts getting repetitious after a while.
Still, most movies like this are tolerable only in campy excerpt, or if watched with the benefit of a lot of alcohol, and by comparison this one is quite enjoyable if you can handle the extremely low production values and obviously less-than-serious intent.
- smellthecult-com-1
- Sep 17, 2009
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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.
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.
- alistairc_2000
- Oct 8, 2011
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OK I love bad horror , really bad Z horror..really bad "so horrible it's funny" type movies...but this movie is BORING....The thing is this movie has some hillarious moments of bad acting and dialogue "i'm feeling extra poorly"..or "IT WAS THE ABOMINATION"..but god this movie was a 90 minute bore fest...the movie drags drags drags..and all the good parts are in the very begining..including Cody waking up at least 10 x's on repeat...don't waste your time even to see gore...it's too damn boring...I fell asleep..I didnt even see the rest of it
- chaosnbeer
- Nov 30, 2002
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