The Abominable Snowman (DVD)

Background: Hammer has previously purchased the film rights for The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2 from the BBC when they concluded negotiations to buy the rights to a TV play entitled "The Creature". Like the two Quatermass stories this had been scripted by Nigel Kneale. By the time "The Abominable Snowman" (the new name for "The Creature" went into production however Kneale had left the BBC which meant that he was free to adapt his TV play for Hammer to film. There were a number of changes between the BBC version of Kneale's script and the version that was finally filmed by Hammer but the basic story remained the ...  Read the complete review

The title of this film, together with the fact that it is now shown under the ‘Hammer’ label as a horror film, might immediately place a picture in your mind of huge rampaging monsters roaring across the mountains and ruthlessly tracking down and killing a small group of relatively defenceless human explorers. Well, in ‘The Abominable Snowman’ the explorers exist, and there are one or two gunshots fired, but there the similarity between this film and the common expectation of it ends. The Abominable Snowman is a British film, and to me it more closely resembles the British scientific romance tale with its scientist hero, intellectual ...  Read the complete review