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Venomous

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The career of Treat Williams has certainly been a circular one. After a brilliant start in the awesome "Prince of the City" and "Hair," this fine actor has gone from real bombs to mediocre material like "Venomous." Williams plays a loveably crusty middle-aged town doctor who is plunged into terror when a strange virus overtakes his small town. His estranged wife (Mary Page Keller) is a viral specialist in Washington and he is forced to bring her in as an assistant. The virus is caused by the bite of genetically mutated rattlesnakes, who escaped during a terrorist attack in 1990; of course the government wants their blunder kept secret. So the nasty government (under the auspices of the delightfully cool Tony Denison) decides to get rid of the town. There is some reasonably good suspense and the acting is above average. Hannes Jaeneke has a nice turn as Williams' studly assistant, who gets shot and we don't see any evidence of the shot in the following scene, but the bandage grows in the next two times we see him. It's directed by the prolific pseudonymned Fred Olen Ray (this time he's Ed Howard). It's not a bad movie, per se, just average and mildly entertaining.

This is an interesting film about an outbreak of a deadly virus in the same town that Invasion of the Body Snatchers is supposed to take place in. As our hero follows the clues he discovers the poisonous snakes are the villains. As the town is quarantined and about to be nuked by the presidents orders, Treat Williams must act fast to find a way to stop the mayhem that's going down. There's a nice commentary on the DVD, which helps explain various things. It's a nice effort.

Sure, it is very similar to Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak, about deadly virus carried by rattlesnakes. But the stars, Treat Williams and Mary Page Keller make this movie fairly entertaining. Director Fred Olen ray provides a great audio commentary throughout the movie that is very informative and entertaining. The DVD itself is OK. Sharp and clear picture and quite good Dolby 5.1. Too bad, Fox charges way too high for this B movie DVD but it worths at least a rental.

A small town doctor (Treat Williams from Deep Rising) and his geneticist ex-wife (Mary Page Keller) are thrust into the middle of a disastrous military cover-up after genetically enhanced rattlesnakes begin infecting people w/ a lethal virus. The military, in its infinite wisdom, decides that the best way to solve the problem (i.e. hide the truth) is to do away w/ the whole town! Can our heroes figure out a way to contain the virus, that doesn't involve obliterating the populace? Good, fang-y fun!...

I own this movie and bought it because I'm a snake lover and will watch any movie or program with snakes in it! This movie was good. It's about a small town that gets invaded by very deadly genetically altered snakes. Once bitten, the victims die very quickly. Things get so bad that the army is sent to quarantine both the surviving victims and the snakes themselves. With the virus spreading so quickly, the race is on to save lives. Good suspense film. Cool snakes. A good movie to watch even though rated PG-13 and not being a horror movie. Good movie for snake lovers to watch also. I'd recommend renting this film if you haven't seen it yet. It's worth it.

When you look at this DVD you may think that this is going to be one of those movies where there's a giant mutated snake that eats people. If you do, you're wrong. This is what you can call a "Realistic" movie. It is about when some rattlesnakes in a laboratory/workshop are left alive when two people blow the building up. The snakes make a den in the ground and there are small earthquakes from time to time so the snakes are forced to come to the surface. When they get there, one snake bites a farmer and he dies in the hospital. All the snakes start biting everyone in Sana Mira, California and they wipe out almost the entire population. One of the nurses claim in her studies that the desease is echoeli. It was sad w hen the dog and the little kitten and the elderly couple get killed. To me, it felt like the movie was way too short. There could have been more to the story. I'd like to see waht happens next if they come out with a Venomous 2. This movie is almost like a documentary. To my surprise there wasn't any gore. Otherwise, this movie is a pretty good scifi movie.

If you've seen the 1995 movie "Outbreak" this movie will seem very similar to you. Instead a cute little monkey spreading the virus, we get snakes instead. The film's main star Treat Williams plays a doctor in small town that is going though a number of snake bites. What Treat Williams does not know is these are government bred snakes which escaped from a top sceret government lab in the mid-1990. To add to this mess Willaims character is going though some marial problems.

The miltary eventually seals off the town and wants to blow it up(along with the people not sick). But Treat Williams saves the day. If you've seen "Outbreak" you've seen this movie before!

The DVD is is widescreen and has a trailer and scene selection . this movie was a little bit better than Treat Williams last movie with Fox "Extreme Limits". It is rated PG-13 for swearing,violence and some hospital scenes.

Rent this movie first before you buy it! If you are a fan of Treat Williams you might like this movie!

WoW!! I can say that this movie totaly copies the orignal movie called Outbreak (1995) .
Except its not about a monkey, instead its about bio chemical rattlers (snakes). The movies totaly mocks Outbreak (1995)
in every way. The setting is in a small town and then the army gets involved to stop the spreading hazardous chemical rattlers when they bite a person and its very contageous. Theres even a seen where people try to excape the town and of course just like in Outbreak (1995) the military stops them by blowing the runners away with gunfire.
This movie is good and has the same plot as Outbreak (1995)
, I say its worth an rental, but I would not buy it for 25.00. I really like Outbreak better becasue its an orignal and these one is a mock. But the action, acting and plot of the movie is good. The director did a good job and just watch it. You will not be dissapointed about it,,,, but I will gurantee that you will say Quote: This movie is a mock of: Outbreak (1995)
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well i really wasn't expecting much , definely a D- movie good in spots but never a great one at that . the effects are cool in places , but if you're looking for a real horror movie then go somewhere else the actress that plays the doctor so much more capable of better roles then this sorry one, i wish they would have spend more time on it,starts off cool then loses steam.

P.S. if you just want to see snakes moving around then rent it.

What do you get when you put nameless terrorists who easily invade top secret military facilities, snakes(which coincidentally often look like rope coiled up) that are smarter than your average actor, and Treat Williams as your biggest star? The only possible answer is this movie. Actually calling it a movie would justify it in some sense. Whatever you do don't rent, buy, or borrow this trash. It isn't even a movie you can laugh at most of the time. The belief that this is filmmaking (even bad filmmaking) saddens me.