RATTLERS

Rattlers Movie Review

After a series of people turn up dead in the desert outside Los Angeles, snake expert Tom Parkinson (Sam Chew) teams with Sheriff Gates (Tony Ballen) and war photographer Ann Bradley (Elisabeth Chauvet) to try to stop the den of deadly reptiles. The 1970s were full of deadly snake movies, from Sssssss to Stanley to this "gem". 

This has classic written all over it

In a movie filled with absolute ineptness, it's really difficult to know where to begin...I'll start with the acting. We've all suffered through poor acting, from grindhouse films from this same era to 50s schlock to 2000s guy with a pro-am cam films--we've seen it all--and the acting in this film is as bad as in any of those. The dialogue is mind-numbing. The "action" is largely a person writhing about, cut to a snake, cut back to the person, and so on, until the person quickly dies. In one scene a trained military dude fires his rifle repeatedly at a snake that is within inches of him...and misses...over and over. Naturally, a romance arises between Tom and Ann, and, for whatever reason, they decide to head off to Las Vegas in the middle of all this, and, yes, the snakes follow. The reason the snakes are so aggressive is absurd (you know the second you see the military they're behind it all). This all leads to an ending that is as boring as the rest of the film. I did manage to find a couple nice things to say about this movie, however; the body count is high, I love that the conversion to DVD was direct from reel (I have it on the Savage Predators collection), and it is fairly short at 82 minutes (though it feels twice as long). 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 3

Rattlers Movie Trailer