Silent Predators Movie Review
Silent Predators Review
"Silent Predators" Overview

Rating: NR
1999
Cast and Crew
Director : Noel NosseckProducer : Richard D. Arredondo,Randy Sutter
Screenwiter : John Carpenter,William S. Gilmore,Matt Dorff
Starring : Harry Hamlin,Shannon Sturges,Jack Scalia,Patricia McCormack,Phillip Troy Linger,David Spielberg,Beau Billingslea
Stop me if you've heard this one before: otherwise docile creature goes nuts
and marauds its way across a small town. Local law enforcement figures out how
to fight the beasts, successfully saving the townsfolk and falling in love
along the way.
From sharks to ants to piranha, what animal hasn't been put on the "man-eater"
list? In Silent Predators, it's the humble snake -- which you'll know right
off because there's a big picture of a snake on the cover of the video!
Yikes! As the box says, "The hunt is on. You're the prey." Probably won't
get any sleep after this one!
Well... that's because you'll be laughing too hard. Harry Hamlin, currently
scraping bottom after his L.A. Law heyday, fights off the snakes (genetic
cross-breeds, natch) with shovel and boot, whether they come at him in what
looks like old Animal Planet stock footage or via "snake vision," wherein we
know the snakes are bad because everything they see is tinted red. From the
clueless mayor to the body count of co-eds and children, Silent Predators
parrots Jaws to a T, only it sucks hard in the process.
I'd try deconstructing the idiocy of this low-budget trash, but I'd be wasting
your time and mine. Instead, I'll leave you with the most compelling piece of
this film to think about: Is a seven-foot rattlesnake something you'd call
Silent? Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Review by Christopher Null
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