Marincho We're in front of our typical slasher film; good guy dies in a freak accident, then comes back to life turned into an evil killing machine. The plot is really simple, so I'm pretty sure you're not going to miss anything and get lost/confused in the middle of the flick.We also have our group of characters; the girl who is recovering from several traumatic experiences, the guy who's trying to win said girl's love back, the bimbo, the tough guy, the funny guy and the Regina George wannabe. It's a pretty overused formula, but in this case it works; the characters are likable and you find yourself rooting for them but at the same time, thinking about which one of them is going to get the nastiest demise next.Even though I'm not the kind of guy who gets scared by slasher movies, I did with this one. The atmosphere was great, it was dark and intriguing; the surroundings were obscure (with the exception of the party at the lagoon and the gas station scene where the girls go for some fuel), those aspects helped the movie a lot and honestly, I can't think of any other place better for the story than the swamps of Louisiana; they nailed it at this one.The killings were really gruesome (as expected), the sequences were mostly intense, like the one at the grandmother's house and the last fight between our leading lady and the villain. The acting was really good for this kind of film and the effects were nicely done; oh! and the addition of Rob Zombie's ''Two Lane Blacktop'' was good, because let's be honest, at the end of the day what is a slasher movie without rock music? All things said, it's a really entertaining flick with a good dose of gore, creepy imagery and good looking actors. If you're looking for an intelligent, mind-blowing, original kind of film, stay away from this; but if you're in it just for the blood and guts, this is for you!If you find yourself with some free time in your hands and don't know what to do, ignore the ratings and go for it! I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

metalrage666 I won't harp on too much about this as Venom is genuinely an unremarkable stalk and slash fare with a bit of voodoo mysticism thrown in to try and add spice to an otherwise dehydrated dish. A man gets attacked by a suitcase full of demonic snakes, comes back to life and begins a random killing spree using any means necessary until settling for a crowbar. Most of the death scenes are obviously trying to emulate some of the inventive and gruesome deaths done in the Friday the 13th movies 30 years earlier, but just seem unnecessary in this. A bunch of panicky, and mostly twenty- something pretending to be teenage cast, take refuge in a voodoo protected house until snake man finds a way to break the seal. After a few more ho-hum deaths, only one remains and with the inevitable - "he's dead now - oh no he's not" moments, our crowbar wielding villain gets crushed between a large tree stump and a tow-truck therefore rendering his body too useless to be effective as a vessel. As the torso lay across the front of the truck, 2 snakes emerge in search of some other body to inhabit. This is fairly standard fare and if you've seen any horror movie in the last 25 years then you've already seen this, you just don't realise it yet. There's no need to rent or buy this and it's one of those "only if there's nothing better on TV" movies. None of the cast is memorable, every death is forgettable and if you haven't fallen asleep before the end, you deserve some kind of reward. Venom is one for the dumpster.

utgard14 Venom isn't a great movie. It's a slasher film and it follows a formula we're all familiar with. It is, however, somewhat original considering the slasher genre was mined of most originality two decades before. The killer in this is a dirty mechanic killed by some voodoofied snakes and turned into a monster.A lot of the comments I've read seem to be primarily slamming the cast. It is a cast of pretty young people and, as is usually the case with slasher films, most of them are annoying. This cast does look like it belongs on a WB/CW show. But they do just fine playing the stereotypical characters they play. The exception possibly being Meagan Good, who is not a strong actress yet the role requires her to have a little more range than the others. Agnes Bruckner is the Final Girl, likable and pretty.They do good on the budget they have. It certainly doesn't look cheap or like it was made for TV to me. It's a perfectly serviceable slasher film. Give it a shot if you don't expect too much.

MartianOctocretr5 Yet another Freddie Kruger/Michael Myers/Jason rip off look alike goes on a rampage in a cheap looking set. It's the same old rehashed story with a lineup of screaming teenage victims-in-waiting pursued and exterminated one by one by a mindless, ruthless serial slasher who feels nothing, yet somehow has a really bad attitude about things.No character development at all; you don't care what happens to these people any more than the brute who chops them up and drags their corpses around slowly. If anything, you hope he puts an end to all of them, as well as their rotten acting. They're in Lousiana somewhere at what looks like an old auto parts yard. It was probably the director's back yard. There's a feeble attempt at giving the movie a plot line, something about voodoo and really mean spirits. None of this is developed at all, nor will you care, anyway. The writer simply tossed it in as an excuse for the high body count and hemoglobin spraying around.The screaming and killing goes on and on, and if you manage to sit through this whole thing, you'll see an ending which is just as poor as everything else in the film. It's all plain lousy, and not even in a funny sort of way. Dull and stale.