‘There is no antidote’
Venomous is a 2001 action horror film about mutant snakes that survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory.
The movie was directed by Fred Olen Ray (Scalps; Star Slammer; Evil Toons) [credited as Ed Raymond] (Jack-O 2; Piranha Women; Super Shark; Bikini Frankenstein; Voodoo Dollz; Dire Wolf; Silent Venom; Glass Trap; Tomb of the Werewolf aka The Unliving; Final Examination; Venomous; Billy Frankenstein; Hybrid; Witch Academy; Possessed by the Night; Dinosaur Island; Mind Twister; Evil Toons; Scream Queen Hot Tub Party; Bad Girls from Mars; Spirits; Haunting Fear; Alienator; The Phantom Empire; Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers; Evil Spawn; Cyclone; Deep Space; Star Slammer; The Tomb; Biohazard; Scalps; The Alien Dead; The Brain Leeches)from a screenplay by Dan Golden and Sean McGinly. Also known by the uninspiring title Snakes.
The movie stars Treat Williams (Night of the Sharks; Deep Rising; Age of Dinosaurs), Mary Page Keller, Hannes Jaenicke, Catherine Dent, Geoff Pierson (Dexter), Brian Poth, Nicole Nieth, Christal Chacon, Jim Storm, Rick Hurst, Melissa Hayden, Marc McClure, Andrew Stevens.
Plot:
In 1991, a group of Iraqi commandos penetrates a secret American government lab, releasing genetically modified rattlesnakes. Over the following years, the snakes breed and multiply.
In the present day, an earthquake drives them from the underground to the surface, and the snakes infect whoever they bite with a fatal virus. A small-town doctor tries to correct the situation, but the government wants to hide the traces of its wrongdoings…
Choice dialogue:
US Army General: “I say we turn the flame-throwers on the slithering bastards and be done with them.”
Trailer:
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