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John L. Curtis, Krista Allen, Luke Perry

Deep in the jungle of a remote island in the Pacific lives a new breed of mutant snake. Dr. Andrea Swanson and her research assistant Jake have been studying the species in a top secret military exper...( read more  read more... )iment to develop the ultimate anti-toxin. But when tensions rise with the Chinese military, Admiral Bradley Wallace quickly evacuates the island. The only way home is an old, decommissioned submarine on its final voyage to its new home in Taiwan. Wallace decides to put Lt. Commander James O'Neill at the helm, a hardened pro facing forced retirement... and he is less than pleased to be "babysitting" his two new guests. But they're not alone. Andrea was ordered to bring some of the experimental snakes back to the mainland - and worse, Jake has smuggled some of the deadlier mutated snakes on board, including a giant diamondback. When a Chinese vessel attacks the sub, the vicious creatures are released from their secure containers and begin to stalk the crew members one by one. Trapped two hundred feet below sea level with no way out, the sub's skeleton crew find themselves attacked... in the galley, torpedo room, shower, and control room. The snakes are hungry and vicious... but nothing can prepare the crew for the terror that awaits them when the diamondback escapes its captivity. Growing in size and ferocity with each meal... the mutated beast is seemingly unstoppable. O'Neill and Andrea become unlikely allies in the fight to keep the deadly snakes at bay as Wallace worries about an international incident as they try to save the sub from the enemy vessels tracing their every move...

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Unrated, 87 minutes

Directed by: Fred Olen Ray

Release Date: June 2, 2009

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  • filmguy450
    November 19, 2009
    filmguy450
    Esstentially "Snakes on a Sub" (the vehicle, not sandwich), this movie is about as good or bad as you imagine it is, which is my way of saying it is entirely middle of the road.
  • jenn1984106
    September 14, 2009
    jenn1984106
    Medicore to poor acting.
  • Jackalqueen
    July 30, 2009
    Jackalqueen
    Yes, this is the 'snakes on a motherf*cking sub' film but it doesn't have the fun factor of Snakes On A Plane unfortunately.

    Scientists are studying some rare, some mutated, and all highly dangerous, breeds of snakes on a remote island on behalf the military. They are meant to...( read more) destroy all but four of the snakes to take back with them. Seeing a way to make money, and because he is clearly an idiot, the assistant smuggles them all onboard the sub. A curious crew member opens a container and gets bitten, although strangely, the medic doesn't notice the bite marks until after a second person is bitten.

    The rest of the story is basically people in claustrophobic rooms, being attacked by snakes which seem to have the ability to get into the most sealed of rooms and spaces. They manage to contain some of them but the rest are still rampaging to their heart's content, until at some point, they stop attacking and people stop looking for them, seemingly just because it's getting near the end of the film and they've used all the anti-venom.

    This film is bad - not so bad it's good, not so bad it's funny, it's just bad. The actors try their best but unlike Snakes On A Plane, they take it all very seriously and it's too bad a story to be able to take seriously. Luke Perry gives his best Bruce Willis impersonation as the captain who is desperate to complete one last mission but he can't live up to the obvious comparisons which will be drawn with Samuel L Jackson. The number of real snakes always seems to be more than the twenty they took onboard but that is a small complaint compared to the two CGI mutant snakes. You know the CGI is bad when you can't physically stop yourself shouting at the TV and the words 'f*ck off!!!' were out of my mouth before I knew it.

    This doesn't have anything going for it at all as far as I am concerned and I really wouldn't recommend anyone making any kind of effort to see it. If you are going to be watching it, probably against your will, maybe a few drinks would make it slightly less painful.
  • oreorebel
    July 28, 2009
    oreorebel
    Had me sweating....Snakes scare me...!
    What ever happened to the Mama Snake?
  • Deano78
    July 25, 2009
    Deano78
    oooh Snakes on a ......submarine?!
  • JasonDuron666
    July 13, 2009
    JasonDuron666
    Silent Venom is about the transportation of a decommissioned submarine to Taiwan led by Captain Luke Perry (whose gotten off a court Martial by being forced to retire after this simple mission), which was assigned by Tom Berenger (who turns in a terrific performance in an otherwi...( read more)se useless and wasted role). The sub needs to make a pit stop to a small island where a scientist Krista Allen and her assistant work on genetically altered snakes with deadly bites, not to mention two new breed snakes that are growing at an exponential rate. Against the Allen's wishes, the assistant brings all of the snakes on board the sub, they get loose (naturally), and it becomes Snakes on a Muthafuckin' Submarine, unfortunately, there is no Samuel L. Jackson to take them on, but rather a crew comprised of Perry, Allen, and some surprisingly decent no-name actors. Overall, I was expecting something wholly different from schlock/craploitation director Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Evil Toons, Cyclone to name a few of the hundreds of films he's worked on). Instead, Ray actually puts forth an effort to make a better than usual killer-snake movie. The balance of a cast trying to combat snakes (actual ones for the most part, no less) while overcoming military drama of surrounding enemies above them was a good mix to the story. There was average acting with barely any of it being bad (gasp!), and they didn't overdo it on the CGI, which was pleasant. As far as cons go, the ending is slightly awkward and confusing, not to mention we are treated to a gigantic snake at the beginning of the film (think King Kong proportions) that makes a kill and is NEVER seen again in the film. Talk about disappointed. It also would have been nice to see Berenger in a bigger role, like in the middle of the action. Overall, though, this wound up being better than I expected and a decent time-killer. Still, I would only recommend this to Sci-fi channel enthusiasts, or those who get a kick out of these kinds of movies.

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