Silent Predators (TV 1999)A small town deals with an invasion of rattlesnakes. Director:Noel Nosseck |
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Silent Predators (TV 1999)A small town deals with an invasion of rattlesnakes. Director:Noel Nosseck |
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Vic Rondelli
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| Shannon Sturges | ... |
Mandy Stratford
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| David Spielberg | ... |
Mayor Parker
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| Patty McCormack | ... |
Vera Conrad
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| Beau Billingslea | ... |
George Mitchell
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| Phillip Troy Linger | ... |
Dr. Matthew Watkins
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| Jack Scalia | ... |
Max Farrington
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David Whitney | ... |
Ken
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David Webb | ... |
Sheriff Howell
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Carolyn Bock | ... | |
| Beth Champion | ... |
Karen
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Sandra Bell | ... |
Laura Holden
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Kirsty Boden | ... |
Tammy Holden
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Darce Florio | ... |
Anita's Friend
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| Paul Tassone | ... |
Stranded Motorist
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In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter. Written by DANIEL
This is standard movie fare done extremely bad. Big rattlesnakes kill people, and the people who know how dangerous the snakes are can't get anyone to listen. The writers and director try to use every cliché to further their careers. The pity is that this usually works. We're also inundated with the all American look of every man having dark hair and every woman having blonde hair, a neo-Nazi trend used to glorify the Hitler Nazi machine by many movie makers. Again, there are so many rich neo-Nazis who insist upon this being "classic", that directors and writers who use this technique go rewarded with bigger and bigger budgets. And don't be fooled. This is a big budget movie. This is expensive work. Don't ever let someone tell you some of these movies are low budget, because they aren't. You couldn't get this much capital to make a movie, unless you are rich yourself. There just isn't anything good about this movie.