Venom (1981)
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Piers Haggard
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Susan George, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles
Synopsis:
Conspirators invade a wealthy urban home with the intention of kidnapping the child and holding it to ransom. Complications set in around a black mamba snake that is inadvertently delivered to the reptile-collecting boy.
Review:
A troubled production (Tobe Hooper replaced as director, flare-ups between Kinski and Reed) arguably feeds into the finished article: as this sweaty thriller hunkers down for its unplanned standoff with the authorities, the oppressive and unpredictable atmosphere inside the house is palpable. Susan George acts up a storm in a scene of terrifying realism, intended to prep the audience who may be ignorant of black mambas.
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Piers Haggard
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Susan George, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles
Synopsis:
Conspirators invade a wealthy urban home with the intention of kidnapping the child and holding it to ransom. Complications set in around a black mamba snake that is inadvertently delivered to the reptile-collecting boy.
Review:
A troubled production (Tobe Hooper replaced as director, flare-ups between Kinski and Reed) arguably feeds into the finished article: as this sweaty thriller hunkers down for its unplanned standoff with the authorities, the oppressive and unpredictable atmosphere inside the house is palpable. Susan George acts up a storm in a scene of terrifying realism, intended to prep the audience who may be ignorant of black mambas.
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Piers Haggard
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Susan George, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles
Synopsis:
Conspirators invade a wealthy urban home with the intention of kidnapping the child and holding it to ransom. Complications set in around a black mamba snake that is inadvertently delivered to the reptile-collecting boy.
Review:
A troubled production (Tobe Hooper replaced as director, flare-ups between Kinski and Reed) arguably feeds into the finished article: as this sweaty thriller hunkers down for its unplanned standoff with the authorities, the oppressive and unpredictable atmosphere inside the house is palpable. Susan George acts up a storm in a scene of terrifying realism, intended to prep the audience who may be ignorant of black mambas.