Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Leofwine_draca VIPERS is just another in a recent wave of schlocky monster movies that appear to have been made for the Sci-Fi Channel in the USA. Like all TV movies, with invariably low budgets and a lack of taste, VIPERS does nothing to buck the trend and in the end is nothing more than a mundane outing for horror fans. Once again, the monster of the day is your humble snake, almost exclusively brought to the screen via some quite horrible CGI effects which are never able to turn a cartoon menace into a remotely plausible threat. Snakes have been a perennial favourite for decades now in horror flicks but their presence here is perfunctory at beast.Once again a disparate group of survivors find themselves holed up against the threat, hiding in a burger wagon amongst other places! Liberal gallons of blood are splashed about during the messy death sequences but poor editing robs them of any gore-for-gore's-sake joy. One thing VIPERS has going for it is the pacing: unlike many such movies, following their strict template of first half set-up, second half action, this one kicks in with plenty of stuff right away and never lets up until the end. Okay, so what happens on screen is pretty unbelievable and/or boring, but at least it happens quickly.The cast could be worse, too. Headlining this effort is Tara Reid, once-famous for her role in the American PIE movies. Sadly, not even ten years later, her looks have faded as has her star, and her poor acting helps to sink the movie. The rest of the cast are a typical bunch of TV actor types, with a few veterans like the excellent Don S. Davis popping up to mix things up. Corbin Bernsen is top-billed but has little more than an extended cameo as the head bad guy. He goes get to take part in the funny, out-of-left-field twist ending, though, which makes no sense whatsoever.Fans looking for snake action will be disappointed. The big action climax, complete with flamethrowers and plenty of drama, takes place in near pitch darkness and the snakes are barely scene. I did enjoy the viciousness with which the film-makers took most of the extraneous cast to pieces but such moments are countered by pure silliness. The snakes, for instance, always scream when they're getting killed; how or why I don't know, but I guess it has to do with their genetic modification. No matter. VIPERS is one for genre fans only, and even they'll be hard pressed to extract enjoyment from this below par effort.

GL84 Arriving to be the town's new doctor in the Pacific Northwest, a local finds the townspeople suddenly bombarded by a series of attacks by a special breed of genetically-engineered vipers that are used in the making of a miracle cancer drug, and soon helps them get away from the deadly creatures.This one wasn't bad at all, and actually had some good parts to it. One of the best parts is that the film really gets a lot of good stuff from the snakes in here, starting with the fact that real snakes are used for the majority of the scenes here, as this a big step up from the usual Sci-Fi Channel scenes where the obviously fake creatures are shown, and showing the real snakes being in the action makes them work nicely. The fact the snakes are shown with a love to swarm victims and attack in high numbers is another big positive, which makes them really dangerous and allows for some pretty good scenes. There's a lot of fun to get from that behavior with plenty of biting all over the body, a savage-looking feasting sequence and rather good stalking scenes in here making for a series of pretty tense showings. The last plus is that there's a lot of action present in the film, as the snakes here are loose really early, tending to a lot of big scenes here. The initial attack on the town is pretty well-done including where they're forced to take cover despite not knowing what's going on that includes several really good sequences, from the attack at the police station to the cover in the van and finally the big part, where they find themselves forced out of the van and across the ground to shelter nearby with the snakes nipping and leading at everything that moves. There's also plenty of fun to be had from the opening in the lab when they get loose and the big attack at the bridge, while the ending attacks are the most fun. There's several fun swarming scenes on the escaping townspeople, a couple of inventive scenes that show them all battling back at the snakes, and all of the fun of the confrontation in the greenhouse is superb. From the stalking of the victims through the walkways through to the way the snakes are always present and manage to present great obstacles for them, and along with the fun kills present in the scene, and film overall, make for some fun times. While these are what make it really fun and enjoyable, there wasn't much else wrong with this one. The biggest issue here is the usual flaw regarding Sci-Fi Channel films about the utterly atrocious special effects for the snakes is still in effect for this one. The snakes in here, despite looking much better than usual, is still plagued by the fact that most of the time they still look patently fake when the snakes are active and moving about, which is where the fake-ness of them comes about most clearly. They don't look too bad when they're merely staying still, but moving around is not when they look good at all. The other flaw to this one is the fact that there's way too much family drama going on at the beginning of the film. These are in no way interesting or exciting, and all they do is make the film a pain at the beginning, not something that starts off the film on a good note. These here are the film's problems.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

TheLittleSongbird Vipers was yet another movie that I watched with little else to do, and while I wasn't expecting much other than a cheesy but entertaining movie I wasn't anticipating it to be this bad. The sheer awfulness and artificiality of the special effects were in all honesty scarier than the snakes, who were the anti-thesis of menacing and poorly utilised, and the entire movie even. The editing is choppy at best and the lighting gives the film an overly-drab look. The actors I have seen before, and they are mostly acceptable to good, but here they don't have much to work with(a couple especially even disappear without a trace) and their acting suffers consequently, coming across as bland. Thw script, story and the characters were the biggest let-downs. The script is terrible, very cheesy, stilted and aimless, and the story complete with a lack of suspense, clichéd sub-plots, predictable death scenes and dull pacing left me completely disengaged. Overall, ridiculously awful. 1/10 Bethany Cox

zachery roadway Why do people hate this movie? It not that bad. The acting is pretty decent. True, the snakes look like crap. I agree 100% with you on that guys. Tara Reid was hard to decide. In the beginning of the movie she does do a bit of bitching. I love the scene where she slaps her mother (i think) in the face. lol! Story is nice. It a pretty nice little snake flick. Watch it with an open mind!I Liked it-Zach