Product Details

• Actors: Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, Jack Scalia, David Spielberg, Patty McCormack
• Directors: Noel Nosseck
• Writers: Fred Brown, John Carpenter, Matt Dorff, Patricia Arrigoni, William S. Gilmore
• Producers: Erik Storey, Frank von Zerneck
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: August 19, 2003
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009YXGZ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #46,411 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Greed, power and denial cover a deadly truth lying beneath the small California town of San Catalano. Explosions on a construction site operated by real estate developer, Max Farrington (Jack Scalia), suddenly awaken a deadly swarm of Silent Predators, mutant rattlesnakes armed with needle-sharp fangs oozing a poisonous venom for which there is no antidote. It is up to the town's new fire chief, Vic Rondelli (Harry Hamlin), to protect the town from falling prey to the slithering killers.

Product Description
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/19/2003 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars RATTLE MY CHAINS, February 24, 2004

By	Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The snakes in SILENT PREDATORS are some nasty critters, to say the least. We first meet them twenty years earlier, when a truck carrying this genetically bred rattlesnake wrecks, and the snake kills its two passengers. Fast forward 20 years and we meet Harry Hamlin as the new fire chief in a small town. Jack Scalia and Shannon Sturges portray the greedy land developer and his assistant who refuse to stop their bombing in spite of unleashing thousands of this newly bred snake. Suffice to say, the snakes do get loose, Scalia usurps Hamlin's power by bringing up a shady past, and veteranarian and Oscar-nominee Patty McCormack spouts out the balance of nature speech. A tense ending in a deserted mine shaft has sufficient chills and overall the cast and crew perform yeomanly. An above average TV movie.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars When Rattlesnakes Attack!, September 13, 2001

By	Biff Fearless "World Reknowned Adventurer" (Cape Coral, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Predators [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I believe this was originally a tv movie aired on WTBS but it is well acted and staged. Harry Hamlin takes on the role of a fire chief in a small but growing Southern California town. A massive housing development has disturbed the territory of a lethal new hybrid of Rattle Snakes with dire consequences for the new residents. Hamlin takes charge of the campaign to save the town. It seems in films it always falls to the fire department to handle animal attacks. I suppose that's why they call it Fire & Rescue. It has a suspenseful ending that makes this a notch above most films of this type. It borrows much of its premise from 'JAWS' but I suppose there are only so many different ways an outbreak of animal hostility can be displayed. The science is fuzzy in the film, as outrageous circumstances are needed to keep up the action.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, February 22, 2006

By	Ted E. Kissel "Ted Kissel" (Greencastle IN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie was great it scared the pants off of me. It has a great plot it is about a tropical rattle snake a made up deadly one what got loose in the United States a few years ago and began breeding with the western diamondback species of rattle snake. Then someone does some blasting were the cross bread rattle snakes live and it causes them to haunt the town were all the people live and there are tons of them that come. Varry scarry film one of the scarriest I have seen.