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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Dimension
Salesrank: 59572
Released: January 17, 2006 |
| Our Price: $7.56 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
VENOM is a fright-filled voodoo thriller loaded with a sizzling cast of the screen's hottest young stars! Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana -- Agnes Bruckner (MURDER BY NUMBERS), Jonathan Jackson (TUCK EVERLASTING), and Meagan Good (ROLL BOUNCE) are among a group of teenagers trying to uncover the truth behind a friend's mysterious death. What they find is an evil force more deadly than anyone could have imagined! Now they are the ones running for their lives! Also starring Bijou Phillips (ALMOST FAMOUS) and Method Man (GARDEN STATE) -- critics everywhere hailed this chilling and thrilling horror tale!
Venom Reviews:
SURPRISINGLY GREAT FLICK! SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THEATERS! 
2009-10-15 - This is one of those pleasant surprises that makes our endless movie quest worthwhile! 'Venom' was much better than I expected! It was very 80s style in the best way with a great looking zombie/killer and brutal splattery kills! The atmosphere was very creepy and the locations they shot in were some of the best swamp areas I've ever seen. I can't imagine any real horror fan not liking this movie. It was well paced, the plot & acting were decent, the kills were many and the atmosphere was great! What more do you need? It would be great to see a sequel done by the same writer, director & crew.
Indie Horror Movie with Mystery/Voodoo/Friendship Themes
2009-02-15 - Venom is a classic-style horror movie with elements of mystery, adventure and minimal gore. It is also an "Indie" type of movie, in that it stars a group of young actors with lots of energy, who are having fun, planning their lives (and getting killed-off:) I rated it a Nine within this context.
The mystery theme, involving a group of young friends, reminds me of a Nancy Drew type story line. These young friends, with their whole lives ahead of them, are forced to learn about Voodoo quickly (to avoid getting killed-off:)
The horror/Voodoo theme is well-known: A Voodoo Zombie is created when a dead body becomes "possessed" by a legion of escaped bad souls. These souls had previously been extracted from unfortunate victims and "confined" by a good Voodoo priestess during intervention/cleansing rituals. Unfortunately the bad souls escaped their confinement during an accident).
The adventure theme is classic chase-and-kill: Obviously the Zombie is out for a hellish romp, and killing people left-and-right to strengthen it's evil occupants. Who is going to step-up and kick it's butt?
This movie was deliberately made to be fun and entertaining, as well as provide some Voodoo folklore. A great Friday night romp in the swamp with an evil Zombie! Where Friends get to gather at Voodoo temples, get chased thru a bona-fide Louisiana Swamp, and often get to die!! There's even a hero at the end:)
Solid horror 
2008-04-16 - This movie wasn't the greatest horror movie, but given the budget, I enjoyed it. The story is pretty cool, gets quite cheesy at times, but what horror movie doesn't. The voodoo idea was done in a way that was creepy and believable, but not overly Hollywood glamorized idea of Voodoo. I'd recommend this movie to someone who wants a good way to spend a Friday night.
0 STARS: Rubbish!! 
2007-08-22 - Unfortunately, I caught this on encore the other night, and being that it is supposed to be a horror movie, I decided to watch it. Succinctly, "Venom" represents a lame attempt to spice up a slasher-type movie with an element of the oh-so-deadly voodoo stuff!! I'm just shaking in my boots after having seen it!!
The voodoo element does not work at all, and, basically, what you have in "Venom" is nothing you haven't already seen before except for the exciting element of voodoo which is completely unconvincing in my estimation and actually makes the movie even more stupid in my opinion than if the movie had just gone straight slasher.
The acting, directing and screenplay are all horrible in this flick making for an intellectual meltdown experience and a completely boring way to spend your evening. I could barely finish this trash. Sadly, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is a lot better than this garbage. I guess they just don't make slashers like they used to...what a tragedy to see what this once beautiful sub-genre of horror has actually come to. If Hollywood is going to continue with this kind of garbage, then I have great fears (not in a good way) for the future of my beloved horror genre.
Some people call "Venom" a horror movie...I just call it rubbish.
All Bite And No Real Venom 
2007-08-09 - With the Louisiana swamps as backdrop, voodoo as a catalyst, and young starlets heading up the cast, you'd think that "Venom" might just be able to be a decent R-rated slasher/hacker flick. Instead of that, we get another formulaic PG-13 teen slasher flick with a little more gore and a lot more rough language (hence the "R" rating). Poor Ray Sawyer was just trying to save an old lady's life when he got snakebit. Unfortunately for him, though, the venom in the snake's bite was a little bit more than poisonous. It contained the souls of some of the wickedest murderers and rapists you could muster in southern Louisiana. Now undead and armed with a crowbar, Ray is after any and everybody who stands in his way. A gaggle of local teens try to stop him by using voodoo, but will that work? If you can sit through this textbook horror flick you just might find out.
The cast is made up of relative unknowns (at least to me). The biggest stars (if you can call them that) are Method Man as a cop and Bijou Phillips as the only thing Bijou Phillips seems to get cast as: the local tramp. She does get to keep her clothes on in this flick, though. Everybody in the film does very well with what they're given, but I really never cared if any of them lived or died.
The creature doing all of the wicked business looked decent enough, but didn't have the screen presence of "Jason" or even "Michael Myers." He grunted a lot, growled a bit, and freed up a few limbs. Overall, however, he just wasn't that menacing to watch.
I felt that more could have been done with the voodoo aspect of the film, but I'm just a reviewer. Why the voodoo wasn't explored deeper is unknown to me.
In conclusion I must say that "Venom" is decent enough for one viewing, but there is a lot better horror out there. I mildly recommend this flick to horror fans. If you enjoy flicks like the "Friday The 13th" series or mediocre horror like "Dreamcatcher," "Venom" will suit you just fine.
