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An object is found that points to the secret of eternal youth so a research team is sent to find the fountain only to find it is protected by a giant snake
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you pick up this film off the shelf and read the synopsis on the back you will be seriously misled. It speaks of a scientist being attacked by hundreds of venomous snakes in a laboratory. Surviving the attack he becomes a half man half snake creature. This is NOT what happens in this film. The front of the cover is deceiving too. There is no half snake man.
The story actually concerns an expedition to the Amazon. The group find a dead body with a tattoo on its chest. Back in New York tests on its cellular makeup show that the man must have been 300 years old when he died. Another expedition is mounted to find the tribe the man came from and discover the secret of long life. They locate the tribe and find they are worshiping a giant multi headed snake which is very active killing all and sundry in the most gruesome ways.
The blonde girl is captured by the tribe and is about to be put to death when she promises to have their dead body returned. Her execution is postponed while they wait for the return of the dead guy. Instead, troops arrive to take the secret of long life by force but they don't bank on the snake.
This is quite a good movie. The special effects, which are of course CGI, are good and the picture and sound quality are excellent. So if you get this cheap like I did the fact that the cover is inaccurate is no big deal. It's still an entertaining 90 minutes.
The story actually concerns an expedition to the Amazon. The group find a dead body with a tattoo on its chest. Back in New York tests on its cellular makeup show that the man must have been 300 years old when he died. Another expedition is mounted to find the tribe the man came from and discover the secret of long life. They locate the tribe and find they are worshiping a giant multi headed snake which is very active killing all and sundry in the most gruesome ways.
The blonde girl is captured by the tribe and is about to be put to death when she promises to have their dead body returned. Her execution is postponed while they wait for the return of the dead guy. Instead, troops arrive to take the secret of long life by force but they don't bank on the snake.
This is quite a good movie. The special effects, which are of course CGI, are good and the picture and sound quality are excellent. So if you get this cheap like I did the fact that the cover is inaccurate is no big deal. It's still an entertaining 90 minutes.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
With this DVD the cover is decieving. The picture on the front has nothing to do with actual film itself. Yes it has snakes in but not a half-human half-snake like creature. This film is almost identical to anacondas but much more tedious to watch. Do not be fooled by the cover. The cover makes it look good but has nothing to do with the film, I checked and tripled checked to make sure I had the right dvd in the case, unfortunately I did. This is bad even by boulvard entertainment standards.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
And You Thought "Python" was bad!!????
24 July 2006
Format:DVD
If you ever have the unfortunate experience of seeing the Robert Englund dud "Python" then consider yourself lucky! I have seen "Python" and thought "Well at least I can say I've seen the worst Large Reptile movie ever made!" And in my blissful ignorance someone set out to make an even worse large-reptile film.....featuring a Baldwin brother to boot! "Snakeman" is awful. It's not really a horror film as much as it tries to be a Jungle adventure flick. You get Southern California masquerading as Brazil this time, with some really unconvincing natives running around sporting more whicker than an IKEA catalog! I think they should have just gotten a big rubber snake and run through the woods with it, that would have been a little more convincing than the cartoony-CGI effects that are attempted here.
If you see this stinker sitting on the shelf of your local Blockbuster for $1.99 like I did, you may be tempted to pick it up out of curiosity.....don't. It may be a small monetary investment, but it's almost 2 hours you can never get back!!
If you see this stinker sitting on the shelf of your local Blockbuster for $1.99 like I did, you may be tempted to pick it up out of curiosity.....don't. It may be a small monetary investment, but it's almost 2 hours you can never get back!!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Anaconda 1 and 2
3 Nov 2006
Format:DVD
An expedition in the Amazon finds a sarcophagus with a preserved mummy inside. Research shows the Amazon Man died when he was more than 300 years old. This sends a new team to find the source of the longevity and a now suspected lost tribe. The team, mostly made up of typical greed-oriented characters, join a helicopter pilot (Baldwin) and set off into the jungle. The team already there gets attacked while the new team's helicopter crashes. Luckily the pilot just happens to speak Jaguar and enlists aid from the Jaguar people.
Soon we meet the lost tribe and see lots of giant snake attacks. The tribe is interesting. White man only just theorized that such a tribe could exist and yet the chief speaks English (the Jaguar people who trade with Western civilization only speak their own language). This lost tribe is the Snake People and they worship Naga, a snake god. They also hold the secret of longevity which is a gift to the Snake People. Add greed, a giant snake that may have more than one head (or may be multiple snakes as the images are contradictory), a tribe trying to protect itself and a pair of characters that actually care what is going on and you get a silly, schlocky monster film. You'll have to watch to find out who survives.
Watching this movie is like watching both Anaconda movies at once. We have the lost tribe of the first movie and the longevity and multiple snakes of the second. Baldwin plays a character who looks and sounds a lot like Voight's character in the first. But it doesn't stop there. Movie fans will recognize a lot of scenes from other movies including one from Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla. The snake monster is also a puzzler. Many times we see the snake and enough of its body to see it has only one head. Halfway through the movie the other heads show up but seem to spring out of nowhere. Idols show Naga having multiple heads but the special effects seem confused. It almost like they got halfway through the movie and decided to make the snake more monstrous by adding additional heads. But whatever the case the thing does a lot of hunting and killing but very little eating. If you want a silly monster film that requires little thought, or one where thought can actually ruin it, then this one is for you. If you want something a little better than this won't fit the bill. Still, it is fun in the right circumstances, just don't expect a lot from it.
Soon we meet the lost tribe and see lots of giant snake attacks. The tribe is interesting. White man only just theorized that such a tribe could exist and yet the chief speaks English (the Jaguar people who trade with Western civilization only speak their own language). This lost tribe is the Snake People and they worship Naga, a snake god. They also hold the secret of longevity which is a gift to the Snake People. Add greed, a giant snake that may have more than one head (or may be multiple snakes as the images are contradictory), a tribe trying to protect itself and a pair of characters that actually care what is going on and you get a silly, schlocky monster film. You'll have to watch to find out who survives.
Watching this movie is like watching both Anaconda movies at once. We have the lost tribe of the first movie and the longevity and multiple snakes of the second. Baldwin plays a character who looks and sounds a lot like Voight's character in the first. But it doesn't stop there. Movie fans will recognize a lot of scenes from other movies including one from Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla. The snake monster is also a puzzler. Many times we see the snake and enough of its body to see it has only one head. Halfway through the movie the other heads show up but seem to spring out of nowhere. Idols show Naga having multiple heads but the special effects seem confused. It almost like they got halfway through the movie and decided to make the snake more monstrous by adding additional heads. But whatever the case the thing does a lot of hunting and killing but very little eating. If you want a silly monster film that requires little thought, or one where thought can actually ruin it, then this one is for you. If you want something a little better than this won't fit the bill. Still, it is fun in the right circumstances, just don't expect a lot from it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"You Come For The Gift?"
26 May 2008
Format:DVD
Great. Another giant snake movie. This one is generally much more trying than the "Anaconda" or "Python" films, and has among the worst CGI I have ever seen in my life. I really shouldn't be too shocked...as soon as I saw Boaz Davidson's producer credit I knew this would be tough slogging.
The film, set in Brazil and actually made there (for which I give the production team credit), is a story of mysterious snake people who live for hundreds of years and the evil corporate goons who want to steal and exploit their secret. While "Anaconda" and "Python" (and other similar movies) have had menacingly large snakes, here the producers pull out all the stops and devise a humongous seven-headed snake to guard the secret of immortality. Stephen Baldwin is staggeringly banal in the lead role, but is frequently upstaged in the overacting department by most of the supporting cast, particularly Larry Day.
The film opens with a helicopter crash in a jungle (which will seem very familiar to Boaz Davidson aficionados), and progresses to scientists being tormented by the snake with homage paid to many creature features before. The heroine, Susan, is rapidly kidnapped by the natives, and tries to free herself by making a deal with her evil capitalist bosses to return a mummy that was taken from the snake people. Needless to say, this doesn't work out as she expected, and results in a mini invasion of evil corporate types, which, of course, as any experienced viewer of this genre grasps means that the snake chow has arrived.
Throughout the movie there are a variety of native actors who actually give the best performances of the film, despite their ludicrous costumes. In the end the giant murderous multi-headed reptile turns out to be the good guy (sort of) and helps the two lead characters find love in what might be one of the most ridiculously implausible yet noxiously saccharine scenes ever. To further continue the obvious plotlines, the evil guy gets his just reward: being drawn and quartered by a giant snake is certainly original punishment.
At the end of this film I felt relief that it was over, but I must confess that it did have more originality than most other Davidson projects that I have seen, so I gave it two stars. The disc also contains a "Behind the Scenes" feature in which cast and crew offer platitudes about what a great movie "Snakeman" is. While my opinion is that they are decidedly incorrect, I think the only genuinely insightful quote in the extras is from Stephen Baldwin, who says "I would have liked my character to have been eight pounds lighter." If that's all he wants changed about this film, I think I'll pass on his future artistic endeavors.
The film, set in Brazil and actually made there (for which I give the production team credit), is a story of mysterious snake people who live for hundreds of years and the evil corporate goons who want to steal and exploit their secret. While "Anaconda" and "Python" (and other similar movies) have had menacingly large snakes, here the producers pull out all the stops and devise a humongous seven-headed snake to guard the secret of immortality. Stephen Baldwin is staggeringly banal in the lead role, but is frequently upstaged in the overacting department by most of the supporting cast, particularly Larry Day.
The film opens with a helicopter crash in a jungle (which will seem very familiar to Boaz Davidson aficionados), and progresses to scientists being tormented by the snake with homage paid to many creature features before. The heroine, Susan, is rapidly kidnapped by the natives, and tries to free herself by making a deal with her evil capitalist bosses to return a mummy that was taken from the snake people. Needless to say, this doesn't work out as she expected, and results in a mini invasion of evil corporate types, which, of course, as any experienced viewer of this genre grasps means that the snake chow has arrived.
Throughout the movie there are a variety of native actors who actually give the best performances of the film, despite their ludicrous costumes. In the end the giant murderous multi-headed reptile turns out to be the good guy (sort of) and helps the two lead characters find love in what might be one of the most ridiculously implausible yet noxiously saccharine scenes ever. To further continue the obvious plotlines, the evil guy gets his just reward: being drawn and quartered by a giant snake is certainly original punishment.
At the end of this film I felt relief that it was over, but I must confess that it did have more originality than most other Davidson projects that I have seen, so I gave it two stars. The disc also contains a "Behind the Scenes" feature in which cast and crew offer platitudes about what a great movie "Snakeman" is. While my opinion is that they are decidedly incorrect, I think the only genuinely insightful quote in the extras is from Stephen Baldwin, who says "I would have liked my character to have been eight pounds lighter." If that's all he wants changed about this film, I think I'll pass on his future artistic endeavors.
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