Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Red-Barracuda A snake expert and photographer are tasked with investigating a series of fatal snake attacks in the Mojave Desert. Their detective work leads them to a nearby military base.I found Rattlers to be a lot of fun. Its story is simple but it basically works. It never gets boring and essentially delivers the requisite snake action you would expect. Its budget restrictions means that some of these scenes might seem a bit clunky at times but it didn't bother me to tell you the truth. The story kept me interested the whole time and the explanation for the psychotic snakes was ultimately decent enough. I guess you could say that Rattlers essentially does what it promises to do and that is present a film with a series of snake attack scenes. For those of you with a taste for low budget 70's American horror films then this one should suffice. There is also a bit of male/female bickering about the merits of liberated women which puts it firmly in the decade it was made but which is also quite amusing to watch now.

eegah1962 OK here's another movie of the "animals gone mad and randomly attack people" genre. A local sheriff investigates the deaths of some local campers from rattle snake bites. He calls upon a university specialist in snakes to help lead the investigation. The prof is joined by a pretty photographer to take photos (ostensibly) and provide for his other needs out in the cold desert (ultimately but not at first, of course). The investigation leads to military experiments, of course. Why is the military and radiation always liked together in these types of movies? (sigh) Anyway our heroes drive around in the desert looking for "clues" as to the rattle snakes' aggressive behavior. Because these rattle snakes are charged up with nuclear mutations or energy or whatever, they are capable of improbable feats, such as making coordinated attacks and even biting through the tire of a jeep as it is traveling down the road. There's some graphic violence in the movie and implied sexuality but no nudity. Elisabeth Chauvet makes an attractive sidekick and sleeping bag warmer for the prof.

MartinHafer The 1970s was a goofy decade for many reasons. One of the goofier trends during this time was the plethora of evil animal films. The most famous was, of course, "Jaws", but the 70s also saw "Willard", "Food of the Gods", "Empire of the Ants", "Frogs", "Night of the Lepus" and many, many other mostly terrible films with similar animals run amok themes. One of the lesser-known of these films is "Rattlers"--most likely forgotten because it was not a good film like "Willard" or "Jaws" nor a truly terrible one like "Empire of the Ants". Instead, it's more a run of the mill sort of terrible film--one with even lower than normal production values.The reign of horror takes place in the desert town in the southwest US. Rattlesnakes there have been running amok AND displaying some strange behaviors--such as the ability to cut through canvas, appear en masse almost instantly in rooms and move almost at the speed of light! Well, at least this is what you might think if you watch the movie. All to many times the snakes just seem to appear in places none of them existed moments earlier--and in very large numbers. So what is causing this? Apparently a US Army top secret formula named 'CT3'--and a lunatic General is responsible for it coming into contact with the snakes--and it makes the snakes very, very ornery.The biggest problem with the film is that the film makers didn't really do their homework about snakes, snake bites and the like. People who are bitten often don't die and just seem mildly annoyed by the experience--whereas in real life, necrotic limps and excruciating agony is for the lucky survivors. The acting, also, isn't particularly good--and come of it's pretty bad. However, the worst thing about the film is that it's never that bad--never bad enough to make it funny or a must-see for bad movie buffs.

Coventry Any horror movie that features the death of two young children – albeit taking place largely off screen – within the first five minutes can't be completely worthless in my humble opinion. Still, another five minutes and the world's most pathetic Cobra catch later, you might start fearing that "Rattles" may be worthless after all. Somewhere in the South- Western desert a bunch of rattle snakes attacked and painfully killed two young boys who were out on vacation with their parents. Since this was already the second deadly snake-related incident in the area in a short period, the local sheriff calls upon the help of Los Angeles university professor and snake-expert Tom Parkinson. Well, he may know a thing or two about slithering serpents, but he's also one of the worst actors I've ever seen in my life! The number of animal and human deaths caused by venomous snake bites alarmingly increases and our dreadful professor, along with a sexy female photographer, heads out into the desert to investigate. "Rattlers" is a very rudimentary type of 70's eco-horror feature. Every character that gets introduced, apart from the main ones of course, exclusively serves as snake bait and to get killed in imaginative settings, like a bathtub or an airplane cockpit. There's not a whole lot of suspense and the terrible acting performances are infuriating, but at least the script is never too boring. Quite the contrary, it is way too silly and nonsensical to be boring! The film doesn't really bother to explain in detail why the rattle snakes all of a sudden became so aggressive and bloodthirsty, but maybe that's because the professor is a bonehead who prefers to take his photographer out on a date in Vegas (during a tremendously hilarious let's-fall-in-love compilation) while they should be researching! Oh well, it's a cheap 70's creature-feature, so it's bound to have something to do with a military experiment gone wayward. Some other interesting things I've learned from watching this film is that snakes can apparently bite through the moving tires of a jeep! How about that! Oh, and I also learned that it's perfectly okay for drunken army medics to make extremely sexist remarks against liberated photographers.