jmbwithcats
This movie had elements of House of the Dead, especially with Ray and the crypt at the end and was actually even worse then House of the Dead which I didn't even think was possible! Especially the ending which was the most unintelligent crap I have ever witnessed in my life.There were no good kills, no satisfying resolutions or character development, no sympathizing relationships, just a really stupid movie.This was not horror, this was just horrible.Great horror movies are out there, many from South Korea and these days actually literally blow this crap to dust.Two words sum up this movie and the latest horror movie trend from Hollywood: So dumb.I miss Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 3, where a plot was built and the creepiness unreality was an atmosphere unto itself! Halloween 1 and 2. Friday the 13th's very early beginnings had the right mood to really freak ya out. A Tale of Two Sisters, the original Dark Water not the remake, the original Ring 0 and even verbinski's The Ring was nice. Where have all the scary movies gone? Theonly scary movie I've been looking forward to in the last 2 years is SAW II. Though for sheer fun, The Hazing was pretty good.
utgard14
Venom isn't a great movie. It's a slasher film and it follows a formula we're all familiar with. It is, however, somewhat original considering the slasher genre was mined of most originality two decades before. The killer in this is a dirty mechanic killed by some voodoofied snakes and turned into a monster.A lot of the comments I've read seem to be primarily slamming the cast. It is a cast of pretty young people and, as is usually the case with slasher films, most of them are annoying. This cast does look like it belongs on a WB/CW show. But they do just fine playing the stereotypical characters they play. The exception possibly being Meagan Good, who is not a strong actress yet the role requires her to have a little more range than the others. Agnes Bruckner is the Final Girl, likable and pretty.They do good on the budget they have. It certainly doesn't look cheap or like it was made for TV to me. It's a perfectly serviceable slasher film. Give it a shot if you don't expect too much.
murnank
Venom tells the tale of Ray Sawyer. A lonely man in a sleepy town who everyone whispers about yet no one really knows where that jagged scar down his face came from. Nothing really happens in Rays life, nothing really happens in this small Louisiana town until one night while driving home Ray rescues an old Creole lady from her car that dangles precariously from a bridge. While in the car Ray is suddenly attacked by a suitcase full of venomous snakes which are rumoured to contain the evil souls of the criminally insane. As the car crashes into the river below so does poor Ray and his kind act is rewarded with a car full of snakes striking him with deadly painful bites in his last few moments of life. The following night Rays body disappears from the morgue and what follows is 24 hours of pure terror as this small town is held hostage to an unstoppable Ray Sawyer back from the dead and possessed by the evil spirits of the insane intent on claiming more souls from this towns locals. This is a supernatural slasher with a high body count and a twist. You can spot the trademarks of Producer/Screen-Writer Kevin Williamson ("Scream", "Dawsons Creek", "I know what you did last summer", "The Faculty", "Cursed") everywhere in this very enjoyable movie. From the dialogue savvy Teens to the tension filled chase scenes and the genuinely creepy killer that is Ray Sawyer, who nick-named "Mr. Jangles" because he collects the keys of his victims, could be the new Jason Voorhees/Michael Myers. Murderous highlights include a graphic throat slashing with a wrench, a death by sand blaster, a character ripped in two while caught between driving cars and a memorable nerve-racking chase scene through the eerie swamps of the bayou. Forget the negative reviews, leave your brain at the door and enjoy this superior atmospheric throw-back to the slasher genre.
ctomvelu1
If the purpose in making VENOM was to create a new franchise, it obviously didn't work. A nasty-looking maniac full of evil spirits pursues a bunch of youths through the Louisiana swamps. He kills them in various, blood-drenched ways. Probem is, the killer is uninteresting and we've seen better kills in a half-dozen other slasher flicks. So VENOM became a one-off. The final confrontation, between a young woman (Bruckner) and the reptilian killer was a lift from both JASON and FREDDY films, although here it seems to take forever here. For true believers only. Oh, and fans of big, ugly CGI snakes, which have something to do with the creation of the killer (see the movie).
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