Based on a BBC television play written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, The Abominable Snowman has always lived the shadow of the two Hammer produced Quatermass films which proceeded it ? The Quatermass Experiment and Quatermass 2 ? which were also directed by Val Guest and based on Kneale-penned scripts. While it
is not in the same league as either of those two earlier sci-fi classics (or indeed Hammer?s later Quatermass film Quatermass and the Pit aka Twenty Million Miles to Earth), The Abominable Snowman is still an intriguing and worthy little film in its own right, which radiates an eerie, pervading atmosphere of impending doom which makes up for its rather measured pace and dialogue heavy screenplay. For Full review and Pictures http://dvdholocaust.com/review.php?id=221
July 5, 2008
