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Venomous

PG-13 2002 1h 37m Horror Mystery & Thriller List
Reviews 41% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings
Doctors (Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller) try to find a cure for a deadly virus inflicted by rattlesnake bites. Read More Read Less
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 11, 2005 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...feels like one of those cheesy TBS disaster movies. Rated: 1/4 Aug 1, 2003 Full Review Walter Chaw Film Freak Central It looks like Tremors proceeds like Outbreak, and stops in Slither territory, with all the tissue rejection such a union predicts. Rated: 0.5/4 Feb 25, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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Robert Austin E I think the late Treat Williams did a great job in this. This is in one of my favorite killer snake films. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/28/23 Full Review Josh G The snakes are evil, the government is evil, And this movie is a wonderful garbage fire of poorly written script and tax payers, It's a stupid good time. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Somehow, someway, Iraqi commandos once broke into a secret American government lab and released the genetically modified rattlesnakes which go under the ground and wait ten years before they emerged in a small town and start biting everyone, which creates a pandemic and man, did I want to watch a pandemic movie when I thought I was watching a snake movie to forget about the pandemic? No, I sure did not. Santa Mira again gets used in a Fred Old Ray movie and man, this town gets really decimated here and nearly nuked off the face of the Earth so that the government spooks can keep their disease snakes a secret. I can totally see that happening. Treat Williams and Mary Page Keller play the doctors struggling to stop the disease, all while Marc McClure and Andrew Stevens get cameos. Give Fred Olen Ray credit. It was once science fiction that the government would totally screw up its response to a pandemic and now it's science fact. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review dave j Monday, October 21, 2013 (2001) Venomous HORROR/ SOCIAL COMMENTARY Low budget, straight-to-rental film which starts off with a couple of media reporters who are really terrorists successfully blowing up a government facility full of experimental infected snakes. Washington doesn't do anything about it nor try to destroy the so-called evidence -not even a cover up since these snakes are much more deadlier than average snakes. A small town is nearby with Treat Williams playing a doctor of the local hospital. And while he's getting patients with snake bites, he's unaware about the severity of the problem until some of his patients started dying on him after finding out that people with snake bites also contaminate other people by means of saliva and can also die in the same amount of time. There's also a silly gov't cover up thing too involving the American army keeping everyone in town since there's no cure and is being treated as an epidemic. Quarantined the entire town by allowing the town to die by itself without media reporters and the President labelling it as collateral damage. Because the movie is like almost 2 hours, it's all very low budget and very relative. 1 star out of 4 Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member It's interesting, though maybe not fully executed the right way. It has a neat concept, though there are parts that get out of hand, and other parts seem slow. A few familiar faces but not the best acting. A bit anti-climatic, but overall, a fun snake thriller. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member A disturbing horrible story film with bad acting should I say anymore Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Doctors (Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller) try to find a cure for a deadly virus inflicted by rattlesnake bites.
Director
Fred Olen Ray
Producer
Alison Semenza King, Jim Wynorski
Screenwriter
Dan Golden, Sean McGinly
Production Co
Phoenician Entertainment
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 19, 2017
Runtime
1h 37m
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