VENOM

VENOM
By Larra

Bizarre snake rituals, a human voodoo doll & Method Man as a police officer?

This should have gone directly to video but sadly it gets to spend a good week in each and every theater across the U.S. I must admit that I spent half of the film inserting my own dialogue as well as cracking jokes when someone would do something stupid (which was quite often) and that seemed to keep me occupied through the ordeal that was Venom.

Set in the bayous of Louisiana, the film starts out with a woman digging a crater of a hole in the middle of nowhere. Cut to a 50’s style diner all lit up in neon, where we meet our young cast of pre-college teens who consist of do-gooders, rebels, half-wits & one closet witch. Oh, and did I forget to mention Bijou Phillips? She hasn’t strayed too far from the character she portrayed in Bully but yeah, she’s in the mix.

There’s not much to do in this small town besides hang out at the diner slippin’ Jack Daniels into your soda and making fun of the resident ‘loner’ Ray (Rick Cramer) who, just happens to also be the only mechanic/tow-truck driver/garage in the bayou. Yeah, you guessed it; he’s the one with all the tools…..

Anyway, whatever the woman dug up was pretty nasty - something about evil-soul possessed serpents - which get a hold of ‘loner-guy’ Ray when her sedan collides with his tow-truck. Needless to say, Ray becomes a crowbar-wielding, chain-slinging killer who wreaks havoc on the small town.