The Worst Film Ever

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

If this movie comes on on TV, you might as well watch it. But paying for it isn't really worth it.It isn't as bad as some reviews suggest. More or less watchable. Obviously, nothing original or remarkable about it, but watchable.It's a typical teen slasher, like many before it. If you've seen one, you've seen them all.The acting was sub-par, obviously. The story line, as expected, was not very plausible. The killing scenes were less than creative. But all this is to be expected from this type of movies, so no surprises there.Everything about it is just average or below that.Will do to pass time if there's nothing better and it's free.

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

Surprised I had not heard of it. A Very decent slasher film with some emerging young stars in the cast like Agnes Bruckner (Blood & Chocolate), Laura Ramsey (The Covenant, The Ruins). Not very gory but feels like a good old school slasher from the 80's. Produced by Kevin Williamson who had a hand in Scream and I know what you did last summer! This is definitely one for slasher fans.This Film is a pleasure to watch and is a refreshing trip back to how slashers were not how they stand at the moment. A good villain, fun plot, the voodoo theme is a good one. Sure there's better, but there are a lot worse. If your into your slashers check out this gem that has been so poorly treated by its producers

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".