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Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

TheLittleSongbird Vipers was yet another movie that I watched with little else to do, and while I wasn't expecting much other than a cheesy but entertaining movie I wasn't anticipating it to be this bad. The sheer awfulness and artificiality of the special effects were in all honesty scarier than the snakes, who were the anti-thesis of menacing and poorly utilised, and the entire movie even. The editing is choppy at best and the lighting gives the film an overly-drab look. The actors I have seen before, and they are mostly acceptable to good, but here they don't have much to work with(a couple especially even disappear without a trace) and their acting suffers consequently, coming across as bland. Thw script, story and the characters were the biggest let-downs. The script is terrible, very cheesy, stilted and aimless, and the story complete with a lack of suspense, clichéd sub-plots, predictable death scenes and dull pacing left me completely disengaged. Overall, ridiculously awful. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Jackson Booth-Millard From the short description I read it sounded like some Anaconda rip-off made for TV, it turned out, that is exactly what is was, just with more snakes. Basically a large amount of vipers have been taken by scientists to be experimented on to find a breakthrough, it all goes wrong when some criminals unintentionally break the glass and the snakes escape. At a big meeting, Burton (The Dentist's Corbin Bernsen), who is in charge of the research, explains that these vipers have been genetically enhanced in order to create a cure for breast cancer. Now slithering their way to a near isolated lake town, the residents, including Nicky Swift (American Pie's Tara Reid) who works at the hotel, are unaware of the danger. One or two people fall victim to the terror these venomous mutated creatures bring, but the townspeople are still not sure what is going on, only that some people have snake bites that need antidote injected. Soon enough everyone is on the run from the vipers, trapping themselves in the hotel, and trying to get help or escape the danger. Burton does find out about the snakes escaping from the medical research facility, and he does get in touch with one of the people caught in the chaos, but he dismisses the problem for the benefit of the research. In the end the vipers are all blown up with a combination of light and gas in the hotel, and Burton gets what coming to him too when the meeting people overhear his earlier conversation. Also starring Jonathan Scarfe as Cal Taylor, Genevieve Buechner as Maggie Martin, Stephen E. Miller as Hank Brownie, Jessica Steen as Dr. Collins, Don S. Davis as Dr. Silverton, Mark Humphrey as Sheriff Hendricks, Aaron Pearl as Jack Martin and Claire Rankin as Ellie Martin. It is shame that Reid, one of the fittest of the girls in the great teen sex comedy has gone so downhill, she is rather dull, and Bernsen doesn't do much either, all the other cast members are silly and predictable too. The blood amount is fair, but the special effects involved for making the snakes look deadly and terrifying is just terrible, it isn't scary, it feels like something made for TV, and it is just an overly boring and awful horror thriller. Poor!

Paul Andrews Vipers starts at a remote secret Universl Bio Tech research laboratory where they have genetically altered a bunch of Horned Vipers to make them produce they're venom quicker since it's a vital component in the companies newly developed miracle cure for breast cancer. Unfortunately as a side-effect the Vipers have become more aggressive & vicious, during a failed attempt to steal the Vipers the tank housing them is broken & they escape. Cut to the small coastal island community of Eden Cove where Kal Taylor (Jonathan Scarfe) is considering whether to take over the current but about to retire doctor's practice when a sudden spate of snake bites occur. Kal & a nice looking blonde bird named Nicky Swift (Tara Reid) soon discover that the escaped Vipers are responsible & no-one in Eden Cove is safe...This American Canadian co-production was directed by Bill Corcoran & is yet another awful Sci-Fi Channel made-for-telly 'Creature Feature' that is probably even worse than this sub-genre usually offers up. The script reads like a list of 'Creature Feature' clichés & is strictly by the number, there's the evil company or scientist or whatever, there's the genetic experiments on some sort of animal that mutates it to either a huge size or makes it more dangerous in some way than normal, there's the good looking teen cast, there's the has-been actor for 'name' value, there's the isolated community cut-off from the rest of the world, there's the impending threat they find themselves under, there's the typical 'lets barricade ourselves in here' sequences & of course there has to be some sort of military or private security force intervention. It's all here in Vipers but it's much, much worse than usual. I recently saw Ice Spiders (2007) & that's ten times better than Vipers, this has no pace, no excitement, rubbishy character's who have boring clichéd sub-plots (rebellious teenage daughter who doesn't like her parents, good looking new doc & good looking bird annoy each other at first but eventually fall in love in a seen it all before romantic sub-plot, the local Sheriff is a hero, etc.) & scenes which make very little sense. Where do the seemingly infinite number of Vipers come from in such a short space of time? Only four or five originally escaped the laboratory. How does a snake slither up a vertical windscreen? How is a bridge seemingly clear at first but then two seconds later there's a Viper there? Where was it hiding exactly? Where did that Viper in that guy's office at the end come from? Why are all the character's so stupid & make idiotic decisions? Total crap from start to finish & one of the very worst 'Creature Features' out there which is saying something.While watching Vipers I just couldn't get excited or motivated, I mean once the survivors have barricaded themselves in that house they should have been safe. What is a snake going to do? It has no arms or legs, it's not big or heavy & surely all they needed to do was find a car, get in, lock the doors & drive to the boat? It's not exactly difficult, is it? Like a lot of these Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Features' the makers have gone for CGI computer effects rather than on-set puppet work & the CGI is uniformly terrible. The Vipers all move in 's' shapes & it's so basic & poor looking it's hard to take them seriously. They also make some very funny noises like screams, growls & roars! Note to filmmakers, snakes hiss not roar! The version I saw was on telly (I'd have been even more annoyed if I had spent money on this rubbish) & I think it might have been an edited version since there's no gore whatsoever & some of the attack scenes are very badly edited seemingly with huge chunks missing. I believe the DVD version is longer & contains the missing blood & gore.The IMDb says Vipers had a $9,000,000 which sounds ridiculous to me, there's no way this rubbish cost nine big ones, no way. Surely if Vipers had cost that much the CGI effects wouldn't be so awful? Shot in Vancouver in Canada. Tara Reid looks nice enough I suppose but isn't the best actress ever & it comes to something when I have to say she puts in the best performance of the entire cast. The only other notable actor in this is Corben Bernsen as the money hungry bad guy.Vipers is a terrible film from start to finish, the CGI effects are awful, the story is predictable & clichéd & it feels like any other low budget Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' only worse. Not recommended.

André de Lorde What should one expect from the Maneater Series' latest "nature gone amok" feature, Vipers? Other than a bunch of flesh-eating snakes, not very much... but that's okay, because this flick certainly isn't trying to deliver anything but over-the-top serpentine carnage.Corben Bernsen and his cronies at Universal BioTech are attempting to cure breast cancer with genetically-altered Horned Vipers (which, as we all know by now, makes perfect sense) when a batch of them escape and head over to the picturesque Oregon island village of Eden Cove. Things get ugly... and reeeally fast, but thanks to the dashing new doctor in town (Jonathan Scarfe), a cute-as-a-button botanist (Tara Reid), and the scientist responsible for the snakes' aggressive tendencies (Jessica Steen), these citizens might just have a chance at survival.If one is willing to throw logic out the window almost immediately, Vipers is actually fairly fun little romp. Sure, the snakes howl like dying vampires when they're killed and there appears to be only one person in the entire town of Eden Cove under the age of 20, but it's relatively easy to overlook these simple misgivings. Even the fact that the vipers actually EAT their victims ends up becoming hilariously entertaining, effectively transforming them from typical snakes to slithering piranhas.Keeping its forked tongue firmly in-cheek during one of Vipers' first scenes, a newlywed African American couple go to make love in their lakeside tent, only to be attacked by the titular critters. Of course, their racial identity calls for them to be the first to go, and the script (attributed to Scarecrow Gone Wild's Brian Katkin) allows them to note that it's "gonna be hard to go back to da city" - since it's painfully obvious that no minorities whatsoever live in Eden Cove.The direction by Bill Corcoran (who is currently helming the Sci-Fi Original, Rise of the Gargoyle) is across the board, with several of Vipers' action sequences staged very well – albeit a tad dark – and most of its dialogue barely sufferable. When little Maggie's parents are presumably killed, she sobs to Reid's Nicky about what it's like to lose someone important. Watching Ms. Reid then almost instantly break down as she describes losing her fiancé to war is amusingly groan-inducing, especially in the midst of an all-out shrieking snake attack.Thankfully, the practical gore effects are quite good, with literal geysers of the red stuff spraying out of anyone foolish enough to get within striking distance of the vipers. Unfortunately, the snakes themselves are comprised entirely of the lowest of low-rent CG effects. Whether they're squirming unbelievably down a gravel road or flailing almost vertically while chowing down on someone, they never once, over the course of the entire film, give the impression that they're actually "there".Early on, a gun-toting dude is asked if it's hunting season. His response? "Almost." (cue ominous music) Reid later howls, "Homeland Security?! This isn't terrorism, these are snakes!!!" and, near the film's finale, our stunning doctor arms himself with a flamethrower that he names "the mongoose" (get it?!). If ever there was a hungry screaming snakes movie starring Tara Reid that you should not take seriously, this is most certainly the one… and Vipers makes no pretenses at being anything but what it is.At its core, Vipers is basically a Sci-Fi Channel Movie-of-the-Week with higher production values and similarly shoddy computer-generated beasties. It's got some tasty gore, just enough sex to keep the hard-pressed titillated, and some beautiful locations. Sure, it's far from theatrical-caliber film-making, but if you're looking for 90 minutes of dumb, slithering fun, this disc might just shock your skin off.