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.
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06/24/06
Venom (2005)
10 %
Reviews Counted: 61 Fresh: 6 Rotten:55 Average Rating: 3.1/10
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.
Runtime: 85 mins
Synopsis: Director Jim Gillespie's hit slasher film from 1997, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, saw four teens being stalked by a shadowy figure. In 2005, Gillespie helms VENOM, a further entry into the stalk-and-slash genre that sees the director returning to familiar ground. The plot is basic, and... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Rick Cramer, Bijou Phillips, Method Man
Director: Jim Gillespie
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce, Kevin Williamson
Composer: John Debney, James Venable
Producer: Jennifer Breslow, Scott Faye
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce, Kevin Williamson
Composer: John Debney, James Venable
Producer: Jennifer Breslow, Scott Faye
Reviews
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08/29/07
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This straight-up slasher flick probably should have gone straight to video for the cheesy-looking, computer-generated snakes alone.
03/07/07
None of the actors is identified until the very end of the credits; in fact, it would have been a kindness not to name them at all, so I won’t here.
05/12/06
Gillespie consegue criar momentos eficientes de tensão a partir de um roteiro que, mesmo absurdo, sabe explorar bem as convenções do gênero. E, de brinde, o filme ainda conta com uma ótima fotografia.
05/09/06
Never strays from the mainstream slasher genre's long-decayed bylaws.
03/19/06
In reality, Venom is nothing more than the teenage slasher formula applied to the swamp.
02/19/06
...the film eventually degenerates into a conventional and hackneyed mess.
01/15/06
Venom is about as animated as Ray the zombie; they're both still up and walking, not realizing they're dead and gone.
01/12/06
Venom is too darn familiar to become anyone's dark-horse favorite, but I'd say it's worthy of a rental if you love the horror stuff.
01/07/06
... even by the logistically malleable standards of the horror genre, Venom lacks even the barest rudiments of the form ...
12/11/05
The death scenes are so unimaginative and the gore is so minimal that you might miss it if you blink.
12/06/05
If you've seen many schlock shockers, you won't have any trouble seeing where this one's slithering to long before it gets there.
10/17/05
The final showdown between sole survivor and killer is sufficiently well-done that you wonder why the rest of the film didn’t measure up.
10/08/05
Yet for all of its retro charm, the movie is ultimately too routine to recommend.
10/06/05
After The Skeleton Key, another lifeless Deep South horror movie charting the myriad frights of costumed black people performing defense rituals.
09/22/05
A lot of fun on the so-bad-it's-good level of unintentional hilarity.
09/22/05
A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models.
09/21/05
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