Venomous (2001) (V)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Fred Olen Ray

Writers:

Dan Golden (writer)
Sean McGinly (writer)

Release Date:

29 November 2001 (Germany)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs...

Plot Keywords:

Snake | Virus | Physician | Epidemic | Maryland

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Treat Williams	...	Dr. David Henning
Mary Page Keller	...	Dr. Christine Edmonton Henning
Hannes Jaenicke	...	Dr. Eric Foreman
Catherine Dent	...	Susan Edmonton
Anthony John Denison	...	Maj. Gen. Thomas Sparks (as Tony Denison)
Geoffrey Pierson	...	Gen. Arthur Manchek (as Geoff Pierson)
Brian Poth	...	Billy Sanderson
Nicole Nieth	...	Cindy Sanderson
Christal Chacon	...	Nurse Josie Randall
Jim Storm	...	Sheriff Jack Crowley
Rick Hurst	...	Edgar Williams
Melissa J. Hayden	...	Katy
Marc McClure	...	Dr. Dutton
Andrew Stevens	...	Daniel Andrews
Chas. Allan	...	Orderly (as Chas Allan)

Also Known As:

Eclipse (USA) (working title)
Venom (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and brief language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 (video premiere) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #38202) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Singapore:PG

Company:

Phoenician Entertainment

Trivia:

The deadly snake-transmitted virus created by the military in this movie is later revealed to be "The Satan Bug", which is also the name of a 1965 germ warfare movie starring Richard Basehart.

Goofs:

Continuity: The woman who uses pepper spray on the guard goes down the hill in a different car. The headlights give it away.

Quotes:

General Tony Sparks: Not entirely original, I'm afraid.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Species (1995)

.... If you lived in a hole

This is one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. It is completley unbelievable, the actors are terrible, and the plot is dumb. Not to mention horribly written.

On to the good stuff: Rattlesnakes, mutant or not, DO NOT STRIKE OR SEEK OUT HUMAN PREY. Ever. Nor can they kill you with a bite to the ankle. Also they do not rattle non-stop. That is a defensive mechinism. On the box there is a boa constrictor, and there were no boa constrictors in the entire movie. I find that very misleading. There were, however, corn snakes and vipers within the movie that are A) Not poisonous and B) not a rattlesnake!

This movie was a lot more fun to comment on, then to watch. I wasted $3.25 I will never get back, and two hours of my precious years I have eternally lost.