Arriving in South Africa, tourists stopping off at a small-time hunting location going missing one-by-one realize that the island has a long and storied history involving venomous snakes inhabiting the island and band together to find a way off the island.
There was some good stuff to this one that makes it work. One of its best features is that it has a lot more action to it than expected, which is a lot of fun and helps move this one along nicely. One of the best encounters is the snake's attack on the bunker, from the rather fun image of seeing all the snakes come out of nowhere, ready to hiss and spit from out of every corner of the room and leading to a variety of fun methods in an extended battle that requires a lot in order to get them under control. The final charge to get off the island is another rather fun and enjoyable action, using several different terrains and locations, featuring great tactics from the encounter along the river stream to the rope-propeller escape along the mountains and even including the initial escape across the open plains on a lawnmower and it makes this rather fun. Aside from the action, it's rather suspenseful earlier on here where they go about on a night-time tour of the island and stumble upon a series of different animal encounters that make for some fun times, especially since the whole encounter takes place at night which certainly helps, as well as the early discovery of the abandoned camp which has a lot to like about it from the incredibly creepy outlook and how it's all presented together. The last plus here is the fun campfire sequence, from the nudity to the revelation of the island's back-story and the eroticism of the whole event, it all works with the snakes slithering around in the background. These here are what work for the film while there weren't a whole lot of real flaws to this one. The film's biggest issue is the use of real snakes in here as the inclusion of the numerous normal-sized creatures just doesn't do anything for anyone and makes them non-threatening instead. They're easier to get rid off and escape from, and there's just not much that the film can deliver in the way of bloody or gory kills. It removes the option of going for the really over-the-top and exciting kills that can be accomplished as this is pretty much restricted to just a few bite- wounds after the fact and the sounds of the dead snakes only, feeling remarkably dry for a killer snake film. The last flaw with the film is the rather weird dream sequence late in the film, where they involve talking snakes singing a nursery rhyme to one of the victims which is completely out-of-place with the rest of the realistic film, doesn't have a purpose and sticks out quite readily. Even though there's some really good parts to this, the flaws are enough to knock it down a bit.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Nudity and Violence.
There was some good stuff to this one that makes it work. One of its best features is that it has a lot more action to it than expected, which is a lot of fun and helps move this one along nicely. One of the best encounters is the snake's attack on the bunker, from the rather fun image of seeing all the snakes come out of nowhere, ready to hiss and spit from out of every corner of the room and leading to a variety of fun methods in an extended battle that requires a lot in order to get them under control. The final charge to get off the island is another rather fun and enjoyable action, using several different terrains and locations, featuring great tactics from the encounter along the river stream to the rope-propeller escape along the mountains and even including the initial escape across the open plains on a lawnmower and it makes this rather fun. Aside from the action, it's rather suspenseful earlier on here where they go about on a night-time tour of the island and stumble upon a series of different animal encounters that make for some fun times, especially since the whole encounter takes place at night which certainly helps, as well as the early discovery of the abandoned camp which has a lot to like about it from the incredibly creepy outlook and how it's all presented together. The last plus here is the fun campfire sequence, from the nudity to the revelation of the island's back-story and the eroticism of the whole event, it all works with the snakes slithering around in the background. These here are what work for the film while there weren't a whole lot of real flaws to this one. The film's biggest issue is the use of real snakes in here as the inclusion of the numerous normal-sized creatures just doesn't do anything for anyone and makes them non-threatening instead. They're easier to get rid off and escape from, and there's just not much that the film can deliver in the way of bloody or gory kills. It removes the option of going for the really over-the-top and exciting kills that can be accomplished as this is pretty much restricted to just a few bite- wounds after the fact and the sounds of the dead snakes only, feeling remarkably dry for a killer snake film. The last flaw with the film is the rather weird dream sequence late in the film, where they involve talking snakes singing a nursery rhyme to one of the victims which is completely out-of-place with the rest of the realistic film, doesn't have a purpose and sticks out quite readily. Even though there's some really good parts to this, the flaws are enough to knock it down a bit.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Nudity and Violence.