10 Pint Movies: Slice em up

Venom (2005)

Plot: A car accident that leads to the death of a Voodoo priestess who's unfortunately just dug up & is trying to transport (for a reason never revealed) a suitcase full of sucked out evil souls in the form of dodgy CGI snakes. She is pointlessly saved from her car dangling over the side of a bridge (Since she dies anyway) by big redneck trucker Ray (Rick Cramer) as he attempts to retrieve the suitcase the car falls into the swamp and Ray drowns while being bitten by the snakes.

The town seems to consist be lacking in people, only a rapper Method Man (Deputy Turner) a few Jailbait scrubbers Patty (Davetta Sherwood) and Tammy (Bijou Phillips), Rays bastard son Sean (D.J. Cotrona), some cock, Ricky (Pawel Szajda) and at first glance the heroes of the film CeCe (Meagan Good) as the voodoo granddaughter, Rachel (Laura Ramsey) a wannabe doctor who wants out of the town and Eric (Jonathan Jackson) the dude Rachael has just dumped in order to fuck off from the swampy shithole.

From that you can probably work out the order they die, or you could if this wasn’t a slasher with a difference. Ray returns from the grave a super voodoo powered zombie fuck, able to kill cocky teenagers with a single twatting of a crowbar. Filled with the power of 13 evil souls can the kids stay alive long enough, if only there was a guy called Gerald to battle Voodoo Ray (madchester joke).

Not that Venom

Is it good: Yes, at first look and the plot above you would be mental to watch this shit but it works? It helps if you’re a slasher fan like me obviously, but it does have an accessible feel to the movie much like the 90s slasher films Scream (1996) and I know what you did last summer (1997) Kevin Williamson writer/producer & Director Jim Gillespie were involved in those films.

or that Venom

For a pretty unknown straight to DVD film it has high production values none of your found footage shaky cam crap.

Venom has a decent level of gore, some inventive deaths, the acting is ok and the introduction of a new villain is always good.

I did like the way it wasn’t just a slasher but added the supernatural element in to make Ray seem unstoppable and the use of the truck as a weapon, great stuff.

The using someone as a makeshift voodoo doll was brilliant but they could have made it really messy to get the most out of it.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Turdige: Not exactly a brutal slasher, the movie is too polished, cleaned up for the teen market, not an unrated video nasty like the early 80s slashers. So the gore level, which lets face it, is the big draw in a supernatural slasher flick is lacking.

Screaming that will help

Also why the fuck when Ray was hit or shot did he keep doing a reverse star jump, weird. The film was absolutely panned by critics and an 8% rating on rotten tomatoes is not good so I could be wrong, but what the fuck do they know