Rattlers (1976)

[lester1/2jr]

             This is a passable if very underachieving JAWS rip off with the typical feds won't acknowledge the problem, scientist as hero sort of cliche plot.  It was , I would hope,  rereleased to cash in on "snakes on a plane" and is  less annoying but obviously less spectacular than that faux B movie.  For some reason I enjoyed it,  maybe the blase attitude of the scientist who reacts to news of a mass snake attack by going back to teaching his 3 students whatever it was about snakes before he got the call.  or maybe it was the sort of poor man's sarah silverman bickering about feminism to the poor guy every 5 seconds then cooking him breakfast.  who knows.  RATTLERS.  the sound effect sounds like people hitting the camera with pencils.  extras inlcude every piece of film with "snake" in the title that something werid posseses. RATTLERS


enjoy this nice dark trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5PCdh7WLuw

[Mr. DS]

I took this one on last October.  I think the most hilarious thing, as Lester mentioned, is the bold talk of feminism.  However the reporter girl simply has an "awwww, how sweet" type of reaction to guys virtually sexually harassing her.  Then they work in the evil chemical plot device which supposedly make the Rattlers mean.  Its one of those so bad its good type of films we all know and love. 

[The Burgomaster]

Ah, yes . . . RATTLERS.  Here are some comments I posted here many moons ago . . .

If you're looking for a fun, low-budget snake movie, this is NOT it.  (The budget is low, but the fun is definitely missing).  If you must see it, it is included in the DRIVE-IN CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK.  I believe that "Something Weird" also has a version available for sale.

Anyway, journeyman actor Sam Chew (who has appeared on TV shows like THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE LOVE BOAT, and THE BIONIC WOMAN, and in movies like 10 TO MIDNIGHT and OSCAR) stars as a snake expert who is sent into the desert with a female photographer (who resembles Ali MacGraw) to find out why rattlesnakes have suddenly become extremely aggressive and started killing the locals.

* * * WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!! * * *

This movie is incredibly cheap and the script and acting are incredibly bad.  Among the dumb elements are:

* After several people have been killed, the snake expert and the photographer go into the desert, pitch tents, and sleep on the ground.  Sounds like excellent precautionary measures to me.  Lie down right there on the ground where the snakes can get you.

* Of course, the snakes get into one of the tents.  Luckily, a soldier shows up at exactly the right moment and shoots the snakes with an M-16 (on full automatic) while the snake expert and the photographer are standing about 1 foot away.

* A snake bites a jeep tire (while the jeep is moving) and the tire goes flat.  Yeah, I KNOW this is science fiction, but STILL . . .

* Some of the soldiers have regulation haircuts, others have slightly long "1970s hair."  At LEAST use realistic haircuts, dammit!

* Soldiers and police shoot at the bad guy, even though he has a cannister containing a biological weapon right beside him.

* Following an explosion in a mineshaft where the snakes are nesting, everyone basically drives away thinking that the deadly snake menace has come to an end.  What . . . none of them are smart enough to think that maybe SOME of the killer snakes were NOT in the mine at that particular moment and might still be roaming around looking for victims?

Oh, the pain . . . THE PAIN!!!!!!

[lester1/2jr]

haha those are some keen observations, I'm embarassed how many of them I missed.  I didn't even blink when the snake punctured the tire.   I'm the perfect audience for this kind of dreck

[Mr. DS]

Don't forget that the armed forces in this movie offer free helicopter rides. 

[lester1/2jr]

someone should have said "i'm tired of these motherf**king rattlers in this motherf**king desert!!"