Venom 4K 1981

The sweetest classic British horror film on the favorite theme of animal-killers, momentarily extracting from the depths of memory memories of the famous Lewis Liosse's “Anaconda”, and David Ellis's “Snakes on a Plane”, which has already become a modern classic. If anyone does not remember, there the main role played by Samuel Jackson. In the same picture, as it is not surprising, rabid reptile opposes the cult Klaus Kinski, who, incidentally, refused to play a role in “Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark” in favor of this horror. Special effects “Venom”, of course, is far from the level that the above two pictures, and humor on a couple of a lot of “meat” in contrast to the tape Ellis, here is not observed at all. But there is one very unpleasant scene of a reptile crawling right into the pants of one of the heroes of the movie, which ended very badly for the poor guy.

Of course, the budget of this, undoubtedly, inexpensive production was meager: but it is clear that the authors of “Venom” did not aim to make a large-scale movie. They just had fun as they could - and then decided to entertain fans of zoological horror. Special effects were made on the principle of home-made hodgepodge - you know, when you use everything in the fridge to cook a dish. The snake used for filming was the most alive, but when it comes to scenes of attack on people, the use of props, which is not good. At the same time the final battle of Klaus Kinski with the viper attacking him looks very nice, and the blood on it obviously was not spared, which surprised me even a bit, because the plot itself did not have much to it.

The action develops quickly, you barely have time to follow it, the actors cope with the tasks assigned to them quite adequately, and the quality of the “picture” so and so - “pro”. Beautiful camerawork only adds even more pluses to the movie, what is only worth shooting through the eyes of the reptile itself. The atmosphere is beautiful. The initial scene alone, in which the boy scrutinizes a book with pictures of various venomous snakes, is a darkness. Which sets the mood. In short, it's a good bid to win. I'm almost sure that if the same people make a sequel to this horror, it will be at least worthy of a single viewing, especially since the ending kind of hinted at it.