ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Michael Ledo Rattle snakes are attacking in droves and unprovoked. A militarily bio-lab is in the area. Sam Chew Jr. and Elisabeth Chauvet investigate.This is a pretty straight forward, not too mysterious film with cut footage of rattlers added, but not as obvious as a fine Ed Wood production. I watched the film on a 50 DVD set and the sound was not restored, hollow in some areas, uneven in others, and a buzz at the end. Film quality could have been better too. It does contain the classic woman in the tub scene as snakes come into the tub and she doesn't even try to get out.Guide: No swearing of nudity. Implied sex.

Scarecrow-88 Sadly what could have been a lot of fun (it is for some…but for the wrong reasons), I just found Rattlers (1976) rather dull. You have the Mojave Desert and killer rattlesnakes: just put together a decent plot to accompany those items in a film and voilà. Alas. The film has this herpetologist hired by a desert sheriff to find reasoning behind a series of snake attacks on locals in his town and county. Added eventually to his mission is a female photographer immediately initiating her women's lib philosophy as he is hesitant to take her along with him into the desert to research possible reasons regarding the snakes being so aggressively hostile and homicidal. A military base with a colonel who had a barrel disposed of in a mine shaft soon emerges as a potential suspect in what might be causing the snakes to kill as they do.Set pieces include a young man climbing up a ladder in a barn and finding a rattler waiting on him in a loft, snakes found scattered in a domestic mother's home, a plumber underneath a house in cramped confines (my favorite moment) undoing a pipe and receiving some uninviting company, and a loose pipe allowing snakes to sneak into the bathtub of a divorcée as she kicks around (hey, stupid! Get out of the tub!). The jeep tire sequence with the two soldiers getting out to put on a spare--instead getting an unwelcome attack from snakes (yep, snakes can fly up to a spinning tire, grasp a moving tire with their fangs, and take a chunk out of it…this, a military-issued jeep)—is as head-scratching as the herpetologist and photographer driving off to Vegas for a bit (in one of those cheesy romantic interludes vignettes, no less) of a getaway. They return and immediately have their tent (none other time but this one, at the end) raided by the snakes. The barrel soon brings military superiors to the colonel and he goes off-the-grid mentally, shooting a "biomedical doc" (a drunk who knew too much; in his first appearance he flirts with the photographer) before driving on to the mine shaft, getting into a gunfight with the sheriff and his cops and a couple military guys (the colonel even tosses a couple of grenades!). The snake shots are done cautiously to avoid seeing the snakes actually biting the human victims through the editing. None of them are all that impactful. The film does come right out of the gate with two boys falling into a rattlesnake trap informing the audience that no matter who you are or what age, death is right there at any time. There is simply too much dead space that drags the pace and its lack of real talent in front of the camera doesn't help, either. It fits, however, into the summer where movies like this might go down easier. This is for the drive-in, especially, and for nights where you could afford to forfeit good time for bad product. Rattlers is probably best for bad movie lovers. It has a plot and characters, performances and style, fit for those who enjoy the mildew of film. The Mojave desert, though, is a fantastic place to shoot a killer snake movie...too bad talent hasn't done so yet.

LeonLouisRicci This One Came From the Studios of "Nudie Cutie" Mogul Harry Novak. Known for Higher Than Usual Production Values in the Nudie Genre, His Films had a Beautiful Color Palette and a Higher Sheen Than Most of Novak's Contemporaries.In This One, He Produced One of Those "Nature Nasty" Pics Popular in the Seventies. Here it is Snakes, Snakes, and More Snakes. You Can't Blame Them Though Because the Evil Military was Meddling in Things Best Left Un Meddled, Searching for a New Nerve Gas. Yikes is This 1917? Oh Yea, Viet Nam.Anyhow, Novak Forsakes Human Females for Sheddable Reptile Skin Here and Tries Hard to Make it All Work Enough for Inclusion on a Double Feature at at the Drive-In. The Thing Almost Succeeds but the Snakes Only Know How to Do Two Things, Rattle and Bite and This Gets Old Fast.Easy to Ridicule with Clunky Editing and Storytelling with Limited Talent On Hand the Movie Has Little to Recommend Unless Ripping it Apart is Your Idea of Fun. Otherwise it is One of those for Genre Completists Only. Casual Viewers Can Miss the Boos and Hissing Without Missing Much.

Red-Barracuda A snake expert and photographer are tasked with investigating a series of fatal snake attacks in the Mojave Desert. Their detective work leads them to a nearby military base.I found Rattlers to be a lot of fun. Its story is simple but it basically works. It never gets boring and essentially delivers the requisite snake action you would expect. Its budget restrictions means that some of these scenes might seem a bit clunky at times but it didn't bother me to tell you the truth. The story kept me interested the whole time and the explanation for the psychotic snakes was ultimately decent enough. I guess you could say that Rattlers essentially does what it promises to do and that is present a film with a series of snake attack scenes. For those of you with a taste for low budget 70's American horror films then this one should suffice. There is also a bit of male/female bickering about the merits of liberated women which puts it firmly in the decade it was made but which is also quite amusing to watch now.