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Movie Overview
Cast
• Agnes Bruckner
• Jonathan Jackson
• Rick Cramer
Director
• Jim Gillespie
MPAA Rating
R - for strong horror violence gore, and language
Venom (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten
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2/4
"...the film eventually degenerates into a conventional and hackneyed mess."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

2.5/4
"People don't go to see movies like this to hear insightful conversations; they see them to watch a teenage girl get impaled on a tree branch."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

F
"A lifeless, uninspired horror flick that ought to have been left in whatever hole they found it in."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

1.5/4
"Venom is indeed a horror show but for other reasons entirely...just another colorless creepy tale right off the conveyor belt of sluggish imagination"  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

F
"There's no known antidote for a movie as poisonously bad as Venom."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

4/10
"Venom is about as animated as Ray the zombie; they're both still up and walking, not realizing they're dead and gone."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

2.5/5
"In reality, Venom is nothing more than the teenage slasher formula applied to the swamp."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

1/4
"This film contains a couple of bracingly mean sequences, but it cleaves so closely to the slasher-movie formula that it can't muster up any suspense at all."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

0.5/5
"The death scenes are so unimaginative and the gore is so minimal that you might miss it if you blink."  Film Threat  Michael Ferraro

C-
"Never strays from the mainstream slasher genre's long-decayed bylaws."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

.5/4
"After The Skeleton Key, another lifeless Deep South horror movie charting the myriad frights of costumed black people performing defense rituals."  Slant Magazine  Paul Schrodt

1/5
"dead from scene one"  Filmcritic.com  Pete Croatto

1/5
"A film so awful that the line 'Can’t you de-milk him or something?' is not the worst line of dialogue."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

2.5/5
"Venom is too darn familiar to become anyone's dark-horse favorite, but I'd say it's worthy of a rental if you love the horror stuff."  DVDTalk.com  Scott Weinberg

C+
"... a competent concoction of familiar ingredients, smothered with gothic mood and served up with a generous helping of teenagers: skewered, slashed and stabbed."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker
OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten
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