Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

utgard14 Venom isn't a great movie. It's a slasher film and it follows a formula we're all familiar with. It is, however, somewhat original considering the slasher genre was mined of most originality two decades before. The killer in this is a dirty mechanic killed by some voodoofied snakes and turned into a monster.A lot of the comments I've read seem to be primarily slamming the cast. It is a cast of pretty young people and, as is usually the case with slasher films, most of them are annoying. This cast does look like it belongs on a WB/CW show. But they do just fine playing the stereotypical characters they play. The exception possibly being Meagan Good, who is not a strong actress yet the role requires her to have a little more range than the others. Agnes Bruckner is the Final Girl, likable and pretty.They do good on the budget they have. It certainly doesn't look cheap or like it was made for TV to me. It's a perfectly serviceable slasher film. Give it a shot if you don't expect too much.

Theo Robertson It must be very difficult to put a new twist on a genre that's been done to death . For example can you imagine trying to sell a pitch about a horror movie about horny teenagers in peril ?: " So why do you want us to invest the studios money on a premise that's been done to death for thirty five years ? " " well this is where the screenplay is so radical . The horny teenagers are in danger from ...wait for it ...VOODOO ! Hmmmm I really must try and pitch an idea at a studio sometime , but that said VENOM is directed by working class Glaswegian Jim Gillespie who did try to do something slightly different to teen horror with I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST ... though that said he did flop big time with D-TOX and looking at the box office with VENOM it too did very badly at the box office and despite getting a relatively wide release it failed to break the $1,000,000 threshold at the American box office You can understand this . Cinema goers want something a little bit different to part with inflated cinema prices . As it stands there's nothing painfully bad with VENOM and Gillespie manages to be more than efficient in the horror convention of dark thunderstorm nights and something creeping about in the dark . He also manages to make the teenagers not unlikable well rounded characters but at the end of the day you're left with the feeling VENOM is merely an adeqoute film on a story that's been done to death and would have been better getting released straight to DVD

MBunge I can't believe it took three people to write this movie. It shouldn't have taken even one whole person to come up with this screenplay. In this day and age, there has to be a computer program where you can load in a bunch of horror movie scripts and have it edit out every single thing that's unique or individual about each script, until you're left with the stripped down, blunt, dry and dumb essence of the "teenagers vs. supernatural monster" story. Venom is a film that doesn't use the horror movie formula. It IS the horror movie formula.I can't imagine there's much point is trying to relate the plot of this thing. t's teenagers being chased and killed in a swamp by a zombie. Not a Romero Zombie, though. This is a voodoo zombie. And it's not just any voodoo zombie, this is like a super-zombie who can run and swim and drive a truck. But when the script requires it, he's still dumb enough to be utterly stymied by a simple metal gate.This story is as basic as you can get. There's no twist, there's no self-aware irony, there's no effort to break new ground in gore or perversity, there's not even an attempt to explore the subject of voodoo as anything more than the particular gimmick of this movie. If you've seen any other "teenagers getting killed" horror movie, you've already seen everything in Venom. Except for naked boobs. There are no naked boobs in Venom. I don't know how three dudes write any sort of horror movie without including at least one topless chick. Even the gayest man on Earth would know enough to include a scene with unclothed knockers in this kind of film.For all that, though, I suppose Venom isn't really that bad. Sometimes you're hungry, but you don't want a steak. You just want a fast food cheeseburger. This movie is a fast food cheeseburger. Except it doesn't have any cheese on it. Or pickles. Or ketchup. And the burger hasn't been fried. It's just been stuck under a heat lamp for 30 minutes. And the bun isn't really bread, it's some sort of processed bread substitute. So, Venom is like a lukewarm piece of cow flesh between two slabs of cardboard. Yummy.I guess there is one interesting thing about Venom. It's one of the few teen horror films you'll see where the actors are all much prettier than the actresses. Not that the young women in this movie are dogs, but they don't hold a candle to the metrosexual beauty of their male co-stars. I'm not sure what the reason for that is but like Zap Brannigan, it fills me with emotions that are weird and deeply confusing. If you have 90 minutes to kill and want to watch a horror movie that believes you can defeat a magical enemy by just hitting them hard enough, you could rent Venom. I can't actually recommend it but I can't discourage it, either. I suppose that makes this review a "push".

murnank Venom tells the tale of Ray Sawyer. A lonely man in a sleepy town who everyone whispers about yet no one really knows where that jagged scar down his face came from. Nothing really happens in Rays life, nothing really happens in this small Louisiana town until one night while driving home Ray rescues an old Creole lady from her car that dangles precariously from a bridge. While in the car Ray is suddenly attacked by a suitcase full of venomous snakes which are rumoured to contain the evil souls of the criminally insane. As the car crashes into the river below so does poor Ray and his kind act is rewarded with a car full of snakes striking him with deadly painful bites in his last few moments of life. The following night Rays body disappears from the morgue and what follows is 24 hours of pure terror as this small town is held hostage to an unstoppable Ray Sawyer back from the dead and possessed by the evil spirits of the insane intent on claiming more souls from this towns locals. This is a supernatural slasher with a high body count and a twist. You can spot the trademarks of Producer/Screen-Writer Kevin Williamson ("Scream", "Dawsons Creek", "I know what you did last summer", "The Faculty", "Cursed") everywhere in this very enjoyable movie. From the dialogue savvy Teens to the tension filled chase scenes and the genuinely creepy killer that is Ray Sawyer, who nick-named "Mr. Jangles" because he collects the keys of his victims, could be the new Jason Voorhees/Michael Myers. Murderous highlights include a graphic throat slashing with a wrench, a death by sand blaster, a character ripped in two while caught between driving cars and a memorable nerve-racking chase scene through the eerie swamps of the bayou. Forget the negative reviews, leave your brain at the door and enjoy this superior atmospheric throw-back to the slasher genre.