Product Details

• Actors: Nicholas Brendon, Sandrine Holt, Randolph Mantooth, Robert Beltran, Lisa Langlois
• Directors: John Terlesky
• Writers: Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens, William Shatner
• Producers: Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Gordon Yang, Josée Bernard, Judith Reeves-Stevens
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: June 19, 2007
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000OY9V8E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,573 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Fire Serpent" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better Than I Expected, September 8, 2007

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Serpent (DVD)

From the bad cover art and the story description I was not expecting a whole lot from this film but the reality was better than the packaging.

Two firefighters have their paths cross after an accident at a forest fire site. The older firefighter is a fugitive and been declared nuts. He has ideas about living fire that can think and plan. The younger firefighter doesn't believe a word of it. Then the government gets involved as they have been following the older firefighter for years. Reasonable characters, hidden agendas, and religious zeal abound in this tale.

This story is mor complex than the packaging suggests. Occasionally a solar flare will through off a fire creature and sometimes they land on Earth. This has been going on for a long time. This film is about tracking the creatures while keeping their existence secret from the public and other Government entities. All in all the story was quite enjoyable with a decent cast supporting it. If you like monsters and conspiracy theories you might get a kick out of this one. Check it out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It Ain't Fire Shakespeare..., January 3, 2011

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Serpent (DVD)

Like most Syfy movies where the name of the monster is the title of the movie, Fire Serpent involves some kind of snake like creature on fire. It's actually got a dragon-like head made of flames and two flaming tendrils. It also has the ability to possess people, forcing them to shuffle about in zombie-like fashion with glowing red eyes. The effect went out of style back in the 70s, so your perspective on Fire Serpent is likely predicated on your opinion of glowing red eyes.

Taking a turn as a villain, our beloved Chakotay (Robert Beltran as Cook) is a government agent turned cultist. It turns out he's a believer in carrying "the fire" from biblical times and that the alien he's hunting, the titular fire serpent, is his key to bringing about the end of the world. Opposing the serpent and Cook is Jake Relm (Nicholas Brendon), a firefighter and investigative journalist Christina Andrews (tasty Sandrine Holt). There's also a grizzled old firefighter named Dutch Fallon (Randolph Mantooth) who has a grudge against this particular invader. He's also part of the organization hunting the aliens, or he was before Cook got all biblical.

I'll give creator William Shanter this much - he never lacks for ideas. What would normally be a standard monster movie is filled with all sorts of interesting twists and turns. This is as much a "don't trust government" tale as it is "don't trust fundamentalists" tale.

The CG is competently rendered, with a few audio effects repeated. The fact that the serpent can possess people keeps it from becoming a one-note Godzilla-style movie. The acting isn't particularly good, but then this movie ain't named Fire Shakespeare.

There's lots of dodgy logic as to how to defeat the fire serpent, including some dubious theories about how to put out a fire that I'm not planning to put into practice any time soon. There also is some kind of super HALON-cartridge weapon, continuing the Syfy tradition that all these monster movies must feature a high-tech weapon. And yes, there's a Fire Serpent cam.

But that said, this is actually an entertaining monster flick. It's hardly high art, but it's enough to keep you warm for a few hours.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth 3 stars.........., November 9, 2007

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Andre Villemaire (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Serpent (DVD)

This movie plays like a episode of outer limits or the twilight zone.
I even think William Shatner had some direction in this film.
Anyway, the film is interesting, the acting is pretty good in most cases,
and the film will keep you interested to the end.
The movie could have earned a 3.5 stars if they would have worked on the
creature's sound effects more. The creature sounds like a monster from
a 1970 cartoon. Not scary and could have been improved a lot to give
you a bit of the chills when hearing it through your 5.1 system...
Worth a view ...