Some kind of snake movie?

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Anyone have a clue what this movie is? All I remember specifically is a scene where a guy (can't recall if he's some psychotic ex or something) puts a deadly snake in this woman's apartment and locks her in. I remember that it was actually really effective as far as being edge of your seat with the anticipation of the snake "jumping out" and biting this woman (the snake obviously deadly and it seemed like it was a fast moving striking snake or something). I can't even remember if she lives or not or if the entire movie takes place in this room or if that was just a scene since I only saw it once and it was a few years back. I think maybe the guy boarded up the windows if there were any..all I remember was that she was trapped in there with it and didn't know where it was since it moved around alot.  :-D

[J.R.]

That would be Fair Game, a pretty good thriller from the '80s.

[Steven Millan]

                Another pretty good snake movie is 1982's "Venom",with Klaus Kinski, (a badly aged)Sterling Hayden, Oliver Reed, Susan Geroge, Sarah Miles,and Michael Gough,all of them acting amid a black mamba snake that leaps through the air,and bites people in the most unlikely places(just ask Ollie Reed,if you've already seen this movie).
                    Tobe Hooper was originally set to direct,but  Piers Haggard got the gig,since he was based on England(the film's shooting location).

[Squishy]

Ah, it's always wonderful to find someone who also likes some poor mongrel of a film, one you think you're the only person who loves it...an undeserving entry of many critics' "Worst Movie of 1982" lists, Venom is the sort of film that would be considered classic gold, if associated with Alfred Hitchcock instead of Piers ("Who?") Haggard.

The story hinges on the sort of one-in-a-million coincidence Hitchcock's movies always had: the same day the family chauffeur and maid set about to kidnap an asthmatic child, he brings home a new exotic pet--not realizing the ill importer's wife has mixed up his crate with one meant for the London Institute of Toxicology...wow, just typing that makes my head spin! Needless to say, many things go very, very wrong.

Priceless Dialogue: "Let me zpeak wiz yur zupeerieer! Zumone wiz auzority!" (Klaus Kinski)

Steven forgot to mention Nicol Williamson is in this one, adding one more fantastic accent to the mix. Sarah Miles gives a terrifically funny melodramatic speech about the Black Mamba, the snake attacks (complete with snake-cam) and deaths are nailscrapingly horrific, and the musical theme by Michael Kamen is a memorable toe-tapper, if unusually light-hearted for the nasty events to come...out of print, but highly recommended if you can find it! Just for the accents alone!

[J.R.]

Of course, there's also "SSSSssss" (that's seriously the title) and the horrendous USA Network movie "Rattled", in which a California development site has disturbed a rattlesnake nest, so the inhabitants hunt down and bite the families of the developers.

[Flangepart]

The book was better. No, realy! But, this flick does sound entertaining....just not how the producers intended.

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I didn't realize there were that many movies named "Fair game" according to IMDb..for a minute there I thought the snake movie had to be the willian baldwin one...lol.

Seriously, Looks like that was the movie tho (also known as "mamba") It got a low score as i'm sure it deserves but I remember when I saw it I thought the scenes with teh snake flying out or the anticipation of it was very suspenseful.  Some movies spend millions of bucks and can't make you flinch once. I'm tough that way, I spent most of my childhood watching all kinds of horrors and used to be fascinated with the making of them that now as an adult hardly anything scares me. I was sitting around thinking back to movies that made me jump..yeah there's actually so few that I could draw a list pretty easy. That one came to mind, the idea of it is pretty clever tho..being locked in a room with a deadly snake...enough to envoke some fear in the audience. (kind of like for me the scariest part of "The serpeant and the rainbow" was how he was shut up in that coffin with a...a...TARANTULA!) egads

[Cullen]

Flangepart sez:  The book was better. No, really!

Cullen sez: Then the movie must be really, really bad.

I haven't seen "Venom," but I have read the book, and it was one of the dullest reads I have ever forced myself through.  Flashback after flashback, the way I recall it.  Every little detail about every character's past history.  Long stretches of dull punctuated by bits of slow action.  Ends with the negotiator/cop point of view for whatever reason.  A such potential, wasted.

I'd almost bet the movie's better.  Less of the History Lessons for one thing.
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Slightly back on topic (but not much): The whole "killer snake" story was fairly popular way back there.  We've got "Venom," and "Fer-de-lance," a novel (and movie, if I remember right) about the titular snake (or snakes, can't quite recall) roaming a submarine.  Then there's "The Snake" (again, I believe that's right) about a killer snake in Central Park.  Whole lot of biting going on.
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On topic at last: I enjoyed "Fair Game," though I think their facts on the mamba are off.  I heard they were more cowardly than that.  Quick to anger, mind you, but basically a coward.

Also had a small issue with the ending, which I will not get into here.  I liked it, thought it was poetic and all, but really.

[Chadzilla]

I read that, great killer serpent book by John Godey (author of The Taking of Pekham One-Two-Three).  I tried to watch Venom, perhaps I will again.