Alan Ford, Charles Cork, Cornelia Sharpe

The tables turn on a ruthless kidnapper (Klaus Kinski) who has taken hostage the household of a wealthy couple, including the couple's child, their maid (Susan George) and their family chauffeur (Oliv...( read more  read more... )er Reed). The captor's seemingly foolproof plan is derailed when the young boy's poisonous pet snake is set free and gradually kills each person in the house.

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R, 92 min.

Directed by: Piers Haggard

Release Date: January 29, 1981

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DVD Release Date: July 29, 2003

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  • February 13, 2009
    I saw this as young kid on a Friday night and it scared the living daylights out of me for years. Okay it will be as cheezy as hell now but the way the film is directed at the time was legendary. It was creepy, it was full of suspense and the way Reed gets it at the end will giv...( read more)e you the willies even today....great film.
  • March 1, 2008
    Medyo nakakatakot
    but still maganda ang kwento
  • February 6, 2008
    i think the concept is pretty cool...but they just din know how to carry on the storyline, could av been a better movie
  • November 12, 2007
    Crying movie(scared)(not me)
  • September 2, 2007
    one of the scariest movies ever
  • August 29, 2007
    It was really scary and a little cyco! They went a little too far with this movie... but it ROCKS!
  • August 11, 2007
    must admit this was better then watching Snakes on a Plane

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