Python (TV 2000)

After a military plane crash near a small American town, a giant man-eating snake set off on a killing spree. The locals must find a way to eliminate the snake with the help of a scientist who knows about the snake and terminates it.

Director:

Richard Clabaugh

Writers:

Phillip J. Roth (story), Chris Neal (screenplay),

Stars:

Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Frayne Rosanoff	...	John Cooper
Robert Englund	...	Dr. Anton Rudolph
Casper Van Dien	...	Bart Parker
William Zabka	...	Greg Larsen
Dana Barron	...	Kristin
Sara Mornell	...	Theresa
Wil Wheaton	...	Tommy
Jenny McCarthy	...	Francesca Garibaldi
Chris Owens	...	Brian Cooper
Sean Whalen	...	Deputy Lewis Ross
Gary Grubbs	...	Sheriff Griffin Wade
Theo Nicholas Pagones	...	Dootsen (as Theo Pagones)
Scott Williamson	...	Kenny Summers
David Bowe	...	Boone
Keith Coogan	...	Lenny

Storyline

After a military plane crash near a small American town, a giant man-eating snake set off on a killing spree. The locals must find a way to eliminate the snake with the help of a scientist who knows about the snake and terminates it.

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Plot Keywords:

bicycle | black humor | fight | explosion | first part | 

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Taglines:

This year's Lake Placid!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence and gore, some strong sexuality and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 August 2001 (Kuwait)

Also Known As:

Piton

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Python Productions LLC, Unified Film Organization (UFO)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A full-scale python head was constructed and used during filming, but never once is seen on-screen in the final cut.

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Quotes

Kristin: Look, let's just wait it out. Sooner or later it's bound to get hungry.
Dr. Anton Rudolph: You must understand, it's still basically a snake. Even at its size, it can go without a month without feeding right outside that door.
John Cooper: There's not enough food in here to wait that long. And if it did decide to leave, where do you think it would go?
Kristin: Ruby. Oh, my God. The whole town is like an all-you-can-eat special.
John Cooper: And I sure don't want to wait around here to see what's gonna happen. So what do you say? How about it?
Theresa: Well...

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Connections

References Friday the 13th (1980)

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Soundtracks

"Clean"
Prefromed by Evan Olson

User Reviews

just plain awful, a waste of two hours of your life

Out of all of the bad giant snake flicks, "Python" is definitely ranking on my list as THE worst of them all. It could very well be THE worst of the low-budget made-for-television sci-fi flicks of them all. And what's more, it's a low-budget mindless adventure that's trying to be a big popular classic action movie. As a result, it became one of the most boring and tasteless excuses for a film.

The snake is one problem of the film. Most films like this show the monster on a regular basis. Here, the snake is showed on a very limited basis and if the director was hoping that would make it more suspenseful and frightening, like the shark from "Jaws", well, it didn't work out very well. The snake was created using both a rubber tail and a full-body snake created through bad computer graphics. Heck, the illustration of the snake on the DVD cover is ten times better than the CGI from the action movie. It might have been better using an entire rubber snake. Then the snake's structural appearance wouldn't change in between each time the CGI was swapped for the rubber tail. There was something I noticed about the tail. The tail is suppose to be some razor-sharp object capable of slicing a person's head off (a dumb idea). In the CGI version, it has that kind of tail. But when the rubber tail is shown, it's knubbed and round, definitely not capable of cutting anything. The snake also sounds like a crazy, berserk bird, and I don't recall it ever hissing.

Like I said earlier, the snake isn't shown often. A lot of the story seems to focus on these bland, tasteless and just plain annoying characters that you either don't care about or just plain want to die. Seriously, we have the most pathetic cast ever. And there were plenty of sequences that were all but necessary, even for a flick such as this. Not only are the characters annoying, and many times disgusting, such as the first camping victims the snake eats, but they lack intelligence. Many times, they perform actions that a real person would not stop to do. If you were running from a killer snake and you pull out a mountain bike to escape on, would you bother to stop and look for a helmet? And if you try to hide in a structure, why would you leave the door open? And then take your time walking through the place? And besides, if this snake is so mighty and powerful, why would you transport it in a wooden crate? "Python" is a film that should never have come into being. I would much rather take "Anaconda" or "Boa" over this piece of trash. It is just an example to follow. If you are going to make a low-budget sci-fi flick, make sure the story focuses on your creature. Even if its a total fake creature and totally bland and uninteresting, well, it'll be a lot better than focusing seventy percent of the screen time on the even more bland and uninteresting cast. This is one of the worst films ever made.