Silent Venom starts on Manku Island in the East China Sea where military research scientist Dr. Andrea Swanson (Krista Allen) & her assistant Jake Goldin (Louis Mandylor) have been breeding local radiation infected Snakes with Pit Vipers to produce angry killer mutant Snakes some of which are huge. The Chinese authorities seem to have caught on to what's going on & the top brass back in the US send a submarine in on a rescue mission before the Chinese get there, Lt. Commander James O'Neill (Luke Perry) gets the job done & with Dr. Swanson, her assistant Jake & a container full of twenty deadly Snakes on-board his submarine sets off home. However a stupid sailor opens the container full of deadly Snakes & lets them loose, the Snakes quickly start attacking the crew who all die because of the deadly venom. With the Chinese military above them, the deep blue sea all around them & trapped inside a submarine full of deadly Snakes the odds of survival are not good...
Directed by Fred Olen Ray this apparently had the working title Recoil & has a TV title of Sea Snakes although under whatever title you see it this is a really bad 'Creature Feature' that seems to want to rip-off Snakes on a Plane (2006) as it substitutes a plane for a submarine even if it did come three years too late to cash-in on the Hollywood flick. Silent Venom is our typical awful 'Creature Feature' only set on a submarine, the very start of the film features a giant Snake but the majority of the rest of it just features ordinary sized ones that just slither around & really don't do anything else apart from bite the odd crew member. Most of the clichés are here, the military experiments gone wrong (although I am at a loss to see what purpose these experiments could have had in the first place), a scientist, a leading military officer, the isolated location, the monster/animal/insect threat & there's even a bit of time for some awful dramatics in the style of The Hunt for Red October (1990) as there's a bit of warmongering between US & Chinese submarines although this angle is really pathetic as we never see any Chinese submarine or crew or learn what their plan is as it's all relayed through dull exposition scenes on the US submarine. At just over 80 odd minutes Silent Venom feels longer, it has no pace or excitement & even as a bad 'Creature Feature' this is awful stuff with next to nothing happening & a forgettable climax.
The Snakes used here are mostly real & they offer up no threat at all, they seem totally disinterested in doing anything other than just slithering across the floor & it's almost laughable to see the actor's trying to act scared of them when the Snakes appear completely harmless. When CGI computer effects are used they are predictably terrible & unintentionally funny. There's zero gore, the Snakes just bite people & then they die. Krista Allan talks about taking a shower but she never does on screen therefore there is nudity either. Silent Vanom has no scares, no atmosphere & the cramped conditions of a submarine are not utilized at all & the whole thing just feels below par like no-one was interested in making a good film. Wouldn't firing guns in an enclosed space like a submarine be a very dangerous thing to do? No-one here seems bothered about any potential hull breach.
The IMDb reckons Silent Venom had a budget of about $2,000,000 which sounds like a lot of money for such a rubbishy film, in fact I don't think there's any way Silent Venom would have cost even half that much. Krista Allen looks quite cute & what on Earth is one time Oscar nominated actor Tom Berenger doing in a film as bad as this?
Silent Venom is a really awful 'Creature Feature' of the worst kind, it's a total rip-off of a much better film & it's not even fun, there's no gore or nudity & the plot is dull. One to avoid unless your a die hard 'Creature Feature' fanatic or just plain desperate.
Directed by Fred Olen Ray this apparently had the working title Recoil & has a TV title of Sea Snakes although under whatever title you see it this is a really bad 'Creature Feature' that seems to want to rip-off Snakes on a Plane (2006) as it substitutes a plane for a submarine even if it did come three years too late to cash-in on the Hollywood flick. Silent Venom is our typical awful 'Creature Feature' only set on a submarine, the very start of the film features a giant Snake but the majority of the rest of it just features ordinary sized ones that just slither around & really don't do anything else apart from bite the odd crew member. Most of the clichés are here, the military experiments gone wrong (although I am at a loss to see what purpose these experiments could have had in the first place), a scientist, a leading military officer, the isolated location, the monster/animal/insect threat & there's even a bit of time for some awful dramatics in the style of The Hunt for Red October (1990) as there's a bit of warmongering between US & Chinese submarines although this angle is really pathetic as we never see any Chinese submarine or crew or learn what their plan is as it's all relayed through dull exposition scenes on the US submarine. At just over 80 odd minutes Silent Venom feels longer, it has no pace or excitement & even as a bad 'Creature Feature' this is awful stuff with next to nothing happening & a forgettable climax.
The Snakes used here are mostly real & they offer up no threat at all, they seem totally disinterested in doing anything other than just slithering across the floor & it's almost laughable to see the actor's trying to act scared of them when the Snakes appear completely harmless. When CGI computer effects are used they are predictably terrible & unintentionally funny. There's zero gore, the Snakes just bite people & then they die. Krista Allan talks about taking a shower but she never does on screen therefore there is nudity either. Silent Vanom has no scares, no atmosphere & the cramped conditions of a submarine are not utilized at all & the whole thing just feels below par like no-one was interested in making a good film. Wouldn't firing guns in an enclosed space like a submarine be a very dangerous thing to do? No-one here seems bothered about any potential hull breach.
The IMDb reckons Silent Venom had a budget of about $2,000,000 which sounds like a lot of money for such a rubbishy film, in fact I don't think there's any way Silent Venom would have cost even half that much. Krista Allen looks quite cute & what on Earth is one time Oscar nominated actor Tom Berenger doing in a film as bad as this?
Silent Venom is a really awful 'Creature Feature' of the worst kind, it's a total rip-off of a much better film & it's not even fun, there's no gore or nudity & the plot is dull. One to avoid unless your a die hard 'Creature Feature' fanatic or just plain desperate.