Venom (2005) Critic Reviews
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Smartly directed by Jim Gillespie from a script by various hands, Venom is from Dimension Films and follows its stylish, energetic and darkly amusing horror movie tradition.Read the full review
Acquits itself well enough. Gratuitously gory and derivative to the core, Venom manages to deliver some effective frights in between large swaths of voodoo gibberish.Read the full review
Venom certainly can't be called a good movie, but within its genre it's perfectly palatable.Read the full review
Gillespie showed a real knack for '80s-style retro horror with "I Know What You Did," and while a few sequences here have the familiar-but-enjoyable framing and stylization of an old EC horror comic, his material defeats him.Read the full review
This misbegotten horror film deserved to go direct to video. Or cable. Or oblivion.Read the full review
If ridiculous, hackneyed, gratuitously violent slasher movies aren't your thing, don't go near Venom with a 10-foot snake pole.Read the full review
A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models.Read the full review
Reprises all the tedium of slasher flicks.Read the full review
You'll feel so much better just sending your $9.50 to the Red Cross then catching "I Know What You Did Last Summer" one more time on television.Read the full review
