The Abominable Snowman (DVD)

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 ...