Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Movie Report: "Venom"


Wow ... This movie is dumb.

Crawling out of the depths of my DV-R is this 2005 anti-classic. Stupid teenagers march in lock-step to their stupid deaths.

The creepy tow-truck driver in a backwater Louisiana town was apparently a nice guy -- until he was attacked and killed by a suitcase full of snakes infected by a voodoo curse. Or something like that. Whatever.

There's not a single character in the mess to root for -- even the "smart girl" has a stripper name. The teenage apprentice voodoo priestess is chillin' in a house warded against evil, but somehow, that doesn't stop people from running out the doors *or* stop the bad zombie guy from crashing into the front room with a truck.

Then there's some more blood, and something about a tomb. I don't know. I stopped caring. Even the deaths were boring in this snoozefest.

Interesting trivia: According to imdb.com, the working title for "Snakes on a Plane" was "Venom." Maybe that's what this movie needed -- more snakes. On a plane. With Samuel L. Jackson.

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