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• ♥˩ƳИИ &

  
  Cast:Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Meagan Good, Bijou Phillips, Method Man, Laura Ramsey, Pawel Szajda, James Pickens Jr., Rick Cramer, D.J. Cotrona, Stacey Travis Director:Jim Gillespie Summary: Exploring the murky swamps outside New Orleans, a group of young people… More
  Cast:Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Meagan Good, Bijou Phillips, Method Man, Laura Ramsey, Pawel Szajda, James Pickens Jr., Rick Cramer, D.J. Cotrona, Stacey Travis Director:Jim Gillespie Summary: Exploring the murky swamps outside New Orleans, a group of young people (including Agnes Bruckner, Method Man, Bijou Phillips, Meagan Good and Jonathan Jackson) don't expect to have company. But they meet Mr. Jangles, a madman who's possessed by 13 unlucky souls killed by a voodoo priestess and who now spends his time hunting victims. With each new body, he adds a key to his ring of death -- and an extra jangle to his calling card. My Thoughts: "This is one of those classic low-budget scary films that delivers some jumps but no scares. The acting is as mediocre as the writing. The directing wasn't so bad. The movie really wasn't that bad either. It kept up a good pace and held my attention. It did have a creepy feel to the film which helped, and some good gore as well. I definitely jumped more then a few times. Any fan of scary flicks will appreciate the effort this film gives. Worth seeing at least once."

• Dean !

  
  Caught this on TV last night, surprised I had not heard of it. A decent little slasher film with some emerging young stars in the cast. Not very gory but feels like a good old school slasher. Produced by Kevin Williamson who had a hand in Scream and I know what you did last summer!

• Todd S

  
  How bad was Venom? It was so bad, that they couldn't even get things to jump out and scare you at the right time! It absolutely kills me! The story is fairly original with definite potential, the cast is fairly well known, and the movie was just awful! Why? Take your pick between… More
  How bad was Venom? It was so bad, that they couldn't even get things to jump out and scare you at the right time! It absolutely kills me! The story is fairly original with definite potential, the cast is fairly well known, and the movie was just awful! Why? Take your pick between bad writing, cheap special effects, no character development, and a really stupid ending. I like the whole Louisiana Creole background and the mysterious voodoo religion, that no one believe in anymore, but they just didn't take it anywhere. It's 15 minutes of interesting and an hour and 15 minutes of cheesy slasher bull shit, with typical lines, no eye candy, no comedy, nothing! It was quite boring and the ending just... wow! I don't know if it was rushed or if they just didn't care, but it was so fucking stupid!! Venom could have been a lot more, but it wasn't anything worthwhile.

• Sylvester K

  
  Dull with random killings and many cliches. Ethnic horror gone wrong. Ending was the worst thing ever, you can't kill the monster except using a truck?

• Barry L

  
  Cheesy but watchable

• Robert F

  
  Usually when I rent a film from the horror section of my video store, I don't expect to be rolling on the floor in laughter when I get home and watch it. As usual, all the characters are hot teens who are incredibly stupid and annoying. For example, Tammy was so annoying, I was… More
  Usually when I rent a film from the horror section of my video store, I don't expect to be rolling on the floor in laughter when I get home and watch it. As usual, all the characters are hot teens who are incredibly stupid and annoying. For example, Tammy was so annoying, I was screaming at the killer to just hurry up and kill her. The only character that showed any sort of depth was Cece, but whenever she talked about all that mubo jumbo crap you could tell she was thinking to herself, "what the hell am I doing here?" This film will do for Louisiana what Wrong Turn did for West Virginia - I'm sure the people of both places just love being portrayed in such ways. Admittedly, the second half was much better than the first, and the deaths were quite original. But unless you're looking for a good chuckle, I'd steer away from this film. By the way, if you do want to see it purely for its comedic value, watch out for the scene where they have to bring Sean back to the house. It's hysterical to watch just how much they scream while doing nothing at all as he bleeds to death.

• Laurence C

  
  If you want a scary and competent voodoo flick, just rent The Skeleton Key instead of this unimaginative slice'n'dice... How can the filmmakers keep finding new ways to impale their characters, anyway?

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