In a small town redneck Ray Sawyer rescues a voodoo lady when her car is about to fall of a bridge. He manages to get the lady out but she also wants him to bring a suitcase that's inside the car so he goes back to get it but then the car falls into the water with him inside and the suitcase contains snakes that attacks and kills Ray. Apparently all those snakes were used to suck out the evil from tons of bad men so when they bit Ray, all evil got tranferred into his body and now he's to out to do evil deeds and some teens gets trapped in the middle of it.
I cannot say that I've been longing for this movie to come out but still I was kinda interested to see it and to see what they had made out of it.
Just before viewing it I saw that it said -"from the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer" on the cover and that kinda put me off right then and there since that movie was a crap feast.
Now after watching Venom which is a totally different movie from I Know What You Did Last Summer I must say that Venom was better but still not a very strong horror movie.
A bit entertaining but in the end nothing that you'll remember and nothing that I would really recommend either.
Ok, first off all this movie has all this voodoo stuff in it that doesn't interest me one bit and I recently just saw The Skeleton Key which also had all this voodoo in it so that kinda sucked having to go through that twice in a short period of time.
Venom is actually your typical teen horror movie and for teenagers who haven't seen that many horror movies and are not so into the genre, for them I guess it would work like a charm.
But for people who have seen tons then this is just a new commersial horror flick with nothing special to offer. You get your typical teen actors which are not that bad but nothing special either and we get to see some gore but I wish there would have been more, loads more.
I can't say that it is a really bad movie, it's just nothing special at all, you've probably seen it before, similar stuff that is. It's a little bit entertaining if you're bored and the actors aren't that bad. Also we get to see all teens die except for one so the movie gets a little credit for the low survival count.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Backwater
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Jim Gillespie
WRITING CREDITS: Flint Dille, John Zuur Platten
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Agnes Bruckner, Laura Ramsey, Jonathan Jackson
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 85 min
RATING: 4/10
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