Venom Details

Venom

Director Jim Gillespie's hit slasher film from 1997, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, saw four teens being stalked by a shadowy figure. In 2005, Gillespie helms VENOM, a further entry into the stalk-and-slash genre that sees the director returning to familiar ground. The plot follows a group of teenagers who meet their maker, or narrowly escape the clutches of a mysterious stalker. Set in Louisiana, voodoo has rippled through a local graveyard, and sucked up all the evil spirits of the dead who lie there, depositing them in a suitcase full of snakes. When local bad boy Ray (Rick Cramer), who is the scourge of the town's teen population, meets a grizzly demise in a car accident, the snakes are unleashed and Ray (AKA Mr. Jangles, so called because he collects keys from his dead victims) is resurrected. A few notable names, such as Bijou Phillips (ALMOST FAMOUS) and hip-hop star Method Man, feature among the cast as Mr. Jangles goes about his kill-crazy rampage, and Gillespie tweaks the plot to allow unexpected twists and turns to unfold. Plenty of violence and bloodletting ensues, while the lack of a post modern SCREAM-style approach to the film makes for a refreshing change, delivering a gratifying little shocker that contains enough gore and guts to appease horror fans.

Starring	Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Rick Cramer, Bijou Phillips, Method Man, Meagan Good, Stacey Travis
Director	Jim Gillespie
Studio	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 23 mins
Certificate
Genres	Horror
Language	English
Dubbed	French, German, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian
Released	DVD: 24 Apr 2006 Production year: 2005
Format	DVD