Venom

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Venom

R

2005

1h 26m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Gas station owner Ray (Rick Cramer) saves an elderly voodoo priestess trapped inside a wrecked car, but then he opens her mysterious suitcase and becomes possessed by the evil spirits it contains. Ray turns into a murderous zombie, killing anything that crosses his path and terrorizing a group of teens, including his own son, Sean (D.J. Cotrona). With the help and charms of the voodoo priestess, Sean and friends fight to stay alive as they are pursued through the bayou.

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Critics Consensus

A voodoo horror flick without the mojo, Venom is chock full of gory impalings of interchangeable teenage girls and hunky guys by an unstoppable zombie whose unimaginative rampage quickly lulls us to sleep.

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Christy Lemire

Associated Press

This straight-up slasher flick probably should have gone straight to video for the cheesy-looking, computer-generated snakes alone.

Mar 7, 2007

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Time Out

The slasher clichés on reshuffle are old enough to predate the births of most of the flick's nubile victims-to-be, including tight-T-shirt wearer Agnes Bruckner.

Jun 24, 2006

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Never strays from the mainstream slasher genre's long-decayed bylaws.

Rated: C-

Mar 19, 2006

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Paul Lê

Bloody Disgusting

The objective critiques were not unwarranted; the script has shortcomings, and the characters are underdeveloped. The silver lining, however, is Venom is a well-directed stab of teen horror punctuated with pushy violence and the highest urgency.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 20, 2023

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Mark H. Harris

Black Horror Movies

Whereas Skeleton Key was a pleasant surprise, though, there's little pleasant about this amazingly bland horror entry.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jan 6, 2020

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

A standard-issue popcorn horror pic.

Rated: C+

Mar 18, 2017

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Lúcio Leonardo P

This entertainment had some potential for the genre, but it got lost in clichés and the "freedom" that a film about a curse can bring to the story and its logic. For those who like that sort of thing, it's worth checking out; however, for those who appreciate a good film, it's pure venom!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/24/25

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Jason W

A tow truck driver saves a voodoo lady prior to getting bit by snakes and drowning. The problem is he comes back as a snake version of a Jason Voorhees wannabe and kills the teens of the town for some reason, adding a voodoo element, just because. I thought this was a 90s flick with the bad acting and lackluster cgi, but somehow this was made in the early 2000s. Some decent scenes but it's a confusing film with token annoying teen victims being murdered viciously by a snake man tow trucker.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/10/25

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Jonathan O

Is Jason in the swamp. This movie is not scary and the camera work really terrible quality and horrible editing and awful vfx.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/20/24

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steve d

Incompetent and scare free.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

no es una mala pelicula, siendo sinceros no esta nada mal, tiene una historia original y de mucho misterio

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

Sh*tty teen slasher flick that has some voodoo elements thrown in, a scary looking redneck tow truck driver is killed by a bunch of crappy CGI snakes and comes back to life as a homicidal maniac then goes after a group of teens hold up in a magically warded house, the heroine is this boring blonde chick named Eden (Agnes Bruckner) who wears tight clothes, rides a bike and has a dead dad, there's not much to the ending, the final girl mows the monster down with his truck, gets out and runs off into the woods then two snakes slither out of his body, one of them attacks the camera and that's it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Synopsis

Gas station owner Ray (Rick Cramer) saves an elderly voodoo priestess trapped inside a wrecked car, but then he opens her mysterious suitcase and becomes possessed by the evil spirits it contains. Ray turns into a murderous zombie, killing anything that crosses his path and terrorizing a group of teens, including his own son, Sean (D.J. Cotrona). With the help and charms of the voodoo priestess, Sean and friends fight to stay alive as they are pursued through the bayou.

Director: Jim Gillespie
Producer: Scott Faye, Karen Lauder, Kevin Williamson
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce, Flint Dille, John Zuur Platten
Production Co: Dimension Films
Rating: R (Strong Horror Violence|Language|Gore)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 14, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $881.7K
Runtime: 1h 26m
Sound Mix: Surround

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