King Cobra (1999) (V)

User Rating:

2.4/10   

Directors:

David Hillenbrand
Scott Hillenbrand

Writers:

David Hillenbrand (writer)
Scott Hillenbrand (writer)

Release Date:

29 April 1999 (Singapore)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Don't mess with mother nature!

Plot:

A mutated snake escapes from a laboratory and terrorizes the residents of a small California brewery town.

Plot Keywords:

Mutation | Laboratory | Science Runs Amok | Snake | Independent Film

Cast

Pat Morita	...	Nick Hashimoto
Scott Hillenbrand	...	Dr. Brad Kagen (as Scott Brandon)
Casey Fallo	...	Jo Biddle (as Kasey Fallo)
Hoyt Axton	...	Mayor Ed Biddle
Joseph Ruskin	...	Dr. Irwin Burns
Courtney Gains	...	Dr. Joseph McConnell
Eric Lawson	...	Sheriff Ben Lowry
Arell Blanton	...	Jesse
Jerry Kernion	...	Conrad
Michael Leopard	...	Buck
Erik Estrada	...	Bernie Alvarez
Nick Jameson	...	Jurgen Werner
Cedric Duplechain	...	Deputy Bud Fuller
Paul Morgan Fredrix	...	Dr. Pat Kagen
Gary Bristow	...	Billy

Also Known As:

Anaconda 2 (video box title)
Seth (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for monster violence and terror, and for some sensuality.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U | Netherlands:12 | Australia:M | Germany:12 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | Finland:S | Finland:K-18

Filming Locations:

Fillmore, California, USA

Company:

Trimark Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: Nick Hashimoto calls the snake Seth even though he was never told that was its name.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Game Box 1.0 (2004)

Soundtrack:

Seth Is The Devil

The snakes scenes deliver the goods with scares and chills though with short budget

The film tells about Dr Burns in charge a environment lab making scientific experiments but it turns out to be a bio-genetically King Cobra that has a taste for human flesh .The researcher makes a chemical crossing two species, creating a weird and dangerous hybrid ,being transformed into deadly vipers: an African King Cobra and an American rattle snake with approximate length of thirty feet and whose bites killing its victims.But the laboratory instantly explodes .Two years later the giant snake makes a reappearance and and get loose, attacking at a small town and threaten the populace.Noriyuki, Pat Morita as a snakes expert tells: the African King cobra kills more people than one shark along hundred years .Morita says the snakes have bitten him 167 occasions and he's continuously injecting serum and keeps records with a bite black Mamba snake.The King Cobra simulates death for attraction the victims. and causing a breakdown of the blood cells.The poisonous Cobra-Rattler attack at random and slither down the mountainside,woods and slither around small town,ready to attack anyone in its path.

This is an average scary snake movie .Creepy,scary,campy and low budgeter story about a large snake attacking human beings. Mediocre performances though the actors reacts appropriately to becoming snake food.Rather sympathetic characterization by Pat Morita for the horror genre.Besides Hoyt Axton as the Mayor and Eric Strada as a gay man organizing the brew-fest.The snake are made by Animatronics ,no by nowadays very prolific computer generator,as usual. Another films about this sub-genre are : SSS(Bernard Kowalski),the successful Anaconda(Luis Llosa with Jennifer López),Python 1,2,Boa and Rattlers.The motion picture is regularly directed by David Hillenbrand.