‘Tumorous parasitic beasts are nesting in the bowels of their victims… Soon, they will HATCH…’
The Abomination is a 1986 American horror film written [as Bando Glutz], produced and directed by Bret McCormick [as Max Raven] (Repligator; Children of Dracula; Highway to Hell; Tabloid). It stars Scott Davis (Witchcraft III; Ozone: Attack of the Redneck Mutants), Jude Johnson and Blue Thompson.
TV evangelist Brother Fogg unleashes a biblical plague straight out of the “Book of Daniel” into the unsuspecting home of Cody Lee and his mother. Cody is soon taking orders from the Abomination and no one is safe from the creature’s insatiable diet of human flesh…
The film was shot on Super 8mm and audio dubbed afterwards, mostly with first-person narration. The synth score was provided by Kim Davis, Richard Davis and John Hudek.
Main cast:
Scott Davis, Jude Johnson, Blue Thompson, Brad McCormick, Suzy Meyer, Rex Morton, Victoria Chaney, Gaye Bottoms, Van Connery, Bubba Moore.
Reviews:
“From a filmmaking perspective there’s hundreds of things wrong with this movie but yet they’re all so perfectly wrong in just right ways! […] The Abomination is a masterpiece of zero-budget shitty horror movies. Any worthless hack can make a terrible movie (Ax ‘Em I’m thinking about you motherf*cker!), but all the stars have to align just right to make something so unique and perfectly horrible as The Abomination. It’s truly one of a kind.” Dymon Enlow, Happyotter
“The Abomination is a genuine abomination of surreal homegrown splatter filmmaking complete with droning synthesizers, library music, monotone acting and direction, and oodles of gore. It’s fun, but at the end of the day, it’s more fun telling people you’ve seen it than the actual process of seeing it.” James Oxyer, Obscure Cinema 101
“If you can stick with the excruciatingly droning dialogue there is much joy to be had from all the stupid silliness of The Abomination. It’s like David Cronenberg designed a gore version of The Muppet Show, only to have Andy Milligan rewrite and direct it, just mind-boggling and so plain odd and entertaining. Recommended for fans of 80s cheapo gore and those of us that like a little cozy weirdness on their screens.” Rubbermonsterfetishism
“The Abomination is an ambitious, bloody, hungry-monster-in-the-kitchen movie from Texas […] There’s a chainsaw decapitation, slit throats, hands bit off, an exorcism, a cat in a toilet, and good ole fart humor.” Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide
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“It’s quite a memorable little oddity with its Bible-infused weirdness, rivers of blood and odd sound effects. Only low budget filmmaking can play with the sort of stuff we see, so we have to be prepared to live with the inevitable shortcomings of such a fringe production. At the very least, it’s a memorable, distinctive effort so I’d say give it a look if you can.” Boris Lugosi, Girls, Guns and Ghouls
” …I did not find The Abomination boring at all! An experience in madness and a control to feed this “demon’s” bloodlust for human flesh is had with all it’s gory trimmings. I enjoyed how the story pans out from it’s dream sequence beginning to its blood soaked ending. Maybe the ending could have been more insane but it was far from terrible!” Extreme Horror Cinema
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Choice dialogue:
“There is no escape from the abomination!”
“Well, you tell him that last night I choked out a tumour big enough to choke a horse!”
“You are the Whore of Babylon, mother! You are the mother of this abomination!”
Filming locations:
Poolville, Texas, USA
Related: The Deadly Spawn
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