Venom (2005)
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 55
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.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 19
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.
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A good Samaritan becomes the victim of voodoo spells in this horror story produced by Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson. When an aged Creole woman is caught in a car wreck in a remote section of Louisiana, Ray (Rick Cramer), the owner of a nearby filling station, speeds to the scene of the accident to help. However, Ray doesn't know that the woman is a voodoo practitioner whose vehicle holds a case full of magic talismans. The magical spirits lead Ray to an unexpected death, and then they
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This straight-up slasher flick probably should have gone straight to video for the cheesy-looking, computer-generated snakes alone.
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.
Top CriticA mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models.
Even by the standards of the current Miramax fire sale, this misbegotten horror film deserved to go direct to video. Or cable. Or oblivion.
As mindless scare machines go, Dimension Films' bayou-set slasher thriller acquits itself well enough. Gratuitously gory and derivative to the core, Venom manages to deliver some effective frights in between large swaths of voodoo gibberish.
Even the title is lame, but it does convey the movie's overall effect: numbing and toxic.
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.
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.
Never strays from the mainstream slasher genre's long-decayed bylaws.
In reality, Venom is nothing more than the teenage slasher formula applied to the swamp.
...the film eventually degenerates into a conventional and hackneyed mess.
Don't go in with high expectations, and you might enjoy yourself!
I really don't know why people in horror movies don't go to horror movies more often. If they did, they'd know to stay out of Southern swamps, especially alone and at night.
Venom is about as animated as Ray the zombie; they're both still up and walking, not realizing they're dead and gone.
Venom is an odd film to review ... It's a throwback to the heyday of the slasher film.
Venom begins as a promising vision of small-town discontent only to succumb to the worst tendencies of the slasher teen genre.
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.
... even by the logistically malleable standards of the horror genre, Venom lacks even the barest rudiments of the form ...
The death scenes are so unimaginative and the gore is so minimal that you might miss it if you blink.
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.
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Director:Jim Gillespie
Summary: Exploring the murky swamps outside New Orleans, a group of young people (including Agnes Bruckner, Method Man, Bijou Phillips, Meagan Good and Jonathan Jackson) don't expect to have company. But they meet Mr. Jangles, a madman who's possessed by 13 unlucky souls killed by a voodoo priestess and who now spends his time hunting victims. With each new body, he adds a key to his ring of death -- and an extra jangle to his calling card.
My Thoughts: "This is one of those classic low-budget scary films that delivers some jumps but no scares. The acting is as mediocre as the writing. The directing wasn't so bad. The movie really wasn't that bad either. It kept up a good pace and held my attention. It did have a creepy feel to the film which helped, and some good gore as well. I definitely jumped more then a few times. Any fan of scary flicks will appreciate the effort this film gives. Worth seeing at least once."