Silent Predators (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Noel Nosseck

Writers (WGA):

Patricia Arrigoni (story) &
Fred Brown (story) ...

Release Date:

13 June 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The hunt is on. You're the Prey.

Plot:

A small town deals with an invasion of rattlesnakes.

Plot Keywords:

Snake | Rattlesnake | Housing Development

Cast

Harry Hamlin	...	Vic Rondelli
Shannon Sturges	...	Mandy Stratford
Jack Scalia	...	Max Farrington
David Spielberg	...	Mayor Parker
Patty McCormack	...	Vera Conrad
Beau Billingslea	...	George Mitchell
Phillip Troy Linger	...	Dr. Matthew Watkins
David Whitney	...	Ken
David Webb	...	Sheriff Howell
Carolyn Bock	...	Anita Young
Beth Champion	...	Karen
Sandra Bell	...	Laura Holden
Kirsty Boden	...	Tammy Holden
Darce Florio	...	Anita's Friend
Paul Tassone	...	Stranded Motorist

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Queensland, Australia

Company:

Von Zerneck Sertner Films

Trivia:

This was based on "Fangs", a script John Carpenter did back in the 1970s when he wrote as a gun for hire. In the original, according to Carpenter himself, there were scares and jumps all over the place. One scene included a man who hears a rattle, thinks it's his infant, and finds a rattlesnake in the crib.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When they pull Mandy out of the mine with the bulldozer, the lever that the operator pulls would not, in reality, stop the bulldozer.

hacks use every Hollywood cliché in hopes of furthering careers

This is standard movie fare done extremely bad. Big rattlesnakes kill people, and the people who know how dangerous the snakes are can't get anyone to listen. The writers and director try to use every cliché to further their careers. The pity is that this usually works. We're also inundated with the all American look of every man having dark hair and every woman having blonde hair, a neo-Nazi trend used to glorify the Hitler Nazi machine by many movie makers. Again, there are so many rich neo-Nazis who insist upon this being "classic", that directors and writers who use this technique go rewarded with bigger and bigger budgets. And don't be fooled. This is a big budget movie. This is expensive work. Don't ever let someone tell you some of these movies are low budget, because they aren't. You couldn't get this much capital to make a movie, unless you are rich yourself. There just isn't anything good about this movie.