Rainey Dawn A film I got from the Mill Creek Drive-in 50-pack collection. Mutant rattlesnakes attack people while Sam Parkinson, a noted herpetologist, and Ann Bradley, photographer and die hard feminist are hot on the trail in search of the answers.The film started out just "OK" then entered Ann Bradley into the picture and I was turned off. Ann Bradley is quite irritating with her in your face feminism. As soon as you are introduced to the character Ann Bradley you will hear a sermon all about women's lib with a crappy attitude towards men and basically the world. She's hateful and irritating. If she was not in this film then I might like it better. I could not stand listening to her gripping yakety-yak - I was wanting a horror film not a film on feminism. She ruins an otherwise "OK" but not great film.2/10

LeonLouisRicci This One Came From the Studios of "Nudie Cutie" Mogul Harry Novak. Known for Higher Than Usual Production Values in the Nudie Genre, His Films had a Beautiful Color Palette and a Higher Sheen Than Most of Novak's Contemporaries.In This One, He Produced One of Those "Nature Nasty" Pics Popular in the Seventies. Here it is Snakes, Snakes, and More Snakes. You Can't Blame Them Though Because the Evil Military was Meddling in Things Best Left Un Meddled, Searching for a New Nerve Gas. Yikes is This 1917? Oh Yea, Viet Nam.Anyhow, Novak Forsakes Human Females for Sheddable Reptile Skin Here and Tries Hard to Make it All Work Enough for Inclusion on a Double Feature at at the Drive-In. The Thing Almost Succeeds but the Snakes Only Know How to Do Two Things, Rattle and Bite and This Gets Old Fast.Easy to Ridicule with Clunky Editing and Storytelling with Limited Talent On Hand the Movie Has Little to Recommend Unless Ripping it Apart is Your Idea of Fun. Otherwise it is One of those for Genre Completists Only. Casual Viewers Can Miss the Boos and Hissing Without Missing Much.

masercot This is a movie about aggressive rattlesnakes. Frankly, it has been a concern of mine for many years, just a little less foremost in my mind than the idea that someday squirrels might develop nuclear weapons.The movie starts with two boys wandering off and falling into a snake pit. The local sheriff is perplexed that falling into a nest of rattlesnakes could result in fatalities, so he checks the yellow pages under "personality-free herpetologists" and calls the first one listed. It is Al Gore impersonator, Dr Tom Parkinson.Dr. Parkinson gathers data from the scene of the accident and determines that falling into a snake pit can be a very bad thing. He returns to the University where he teaches the next generation of Metallica fans about snakes.Meanwhile, rattlesnakes murder a family in cold blood. This forces the sheriff to call Parkinson back as well as the most aesthetically-pleasing photographer in the area. Her name is Ann Bradley and she is a feminist by trade.At this point, you develop a new appreciation for the acting of Sam Chew jr. (Dr. Parkinson) because the acting of Elisabeth Chauvet is... well... just awful. The two map out the migration of the rattlesnakes and extrapolate to their starting point: A military base.But, not just any military base. This is an impossibly small base where none of the soldiers have military haircuts. They lend a helicopter to Parkinson and he learns from the pilot that a canister has been buried in a snake pit near the base. The scientist is so mad he can barely act.While this is going on, Ann is wandering around the desert trying desperately to put herself in great danger. A rattlesnake winds up in her car and then leaves because sometimes rattlesnakes just leave.The two set up camp in the desert until they are summoned back to the base to investigate a snake that bit through a jeep tire and then killed two soldiers. These are no ordinary snakes.I'd describe the final scene but mere words cannot do it justice and mere film could not save it. Suffice it to say, if you like movies about snakes and I mean a LOT of snakes, this might be the movie for you. If one of your fetishes is rattlesnakes and naked soapy bad-tempered women, this movie is definitely for you.

Uriah43 This movie begins with two kids climbing up the walls of a canyon and falling into a rattlesnake pit. Because they are so disfigured by the repeated snake bites the local sheriff calls in an expert by the name of "Dr. Tom Parkinson" (Sam Chew Jr.) who works at a nearby college. Although puzzled by the numerous bites he doesn't really offer much help until other cases begin to emerge. After that he and a female photographer named "Ann Bradley" (Elizabeth Chauvet) are led by their investigation to a top-secret army compound which seems to be in the in the middle of all of the incidents. Now, rather than reveal any more of the movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this wasn't terribly bad as far as films of this nature are concerned. Personally, I didn't think the acting was too bad considering the awful script and some of the ridiculous scenarios the actors were given. That said, although I typically enjoy movies of this type I thought this particular film wasn't nearly as good as it could have been and I have rated it accordingly.