BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Pluskylang Great Film overall

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Michael_Elliott Rattlers (1976) ** (out of 4) After a series of snake attacks, an expert (Sam Chew, Jr.) is called in and he's assigned a photographer (Elisabeth Chauvet) and the two set out to discover what the cause is. As they're investigating more violent snake attacks begin happening and it seems an abandoned mine might have something to do with it.RATTLERS is one of many "nature gone wild" movies that were released throughout the 1970s. Obviously the greatest of these was JAWS but there were some pretty good films like GRIZZLY, DAY OF THE ANIMALS and countless television movies. RATTLERS really isn't all that entertaining and the "snake" subgenre had better stuff including SSSSSS and even FROGS had some good snake scenes.If you're a fan of the genre then this one here is certainly still worth watching at least once and there are some effective scenes scattered throughout. The highlight of the movie is a scene where a woman goes to take a bath and gets some uninvited guests. This sequence is directed and edited extremely well and will have your skin crawling. Many of the attack scenes look somewhat cheap because of how they were edited as it's clear most of the time there aren't any snakes anywhere near the person on screen.The biggest problem with this picture is that there's way too much downtime where the characters are just talking back and forth. The dialogue isn't all that entertaining nor is the relationship that blooms between the two leads. The performances by Chew and Chauvet are good but we just needed more snake action.

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.

Bezenby This (you might guess from the title) is one of them 'revenge of nature' films from the seventies. After two kids are killed in the desert by rattle snakes (somehow the bodies managed to roll away down the hill away from the pit, but let's not dwell on that), the local police draft in a snake expert to find out what's going on. After wandering about a bit, and picking up a two hundred dollar paycheck, he acknowledges that yes indeed, those kids were killed by rattlesnakes. With a bit of a shrug, he heads back home.Soon after, a whole army of snakes descend on a farm and kill everything on it, so the local police think that it's probably best to bring the expert back to track down these snakes. This time he's accompanied by a female photographer (Cue the old 'You're…a woman?' bit, and they find out a bit more this time, including the shenanigans of the local army base and their possible involvement in the new aggression of the rattlesnakes. Can our sexist expert and his sidekick stop the snakes in time? And what's the army got to do with it? Not exactly big on action, kills, or even gore, Rattles is still entertaining enough due to a very high cheese level (rated PG, for Parmesan, grated), bad acting, nonsensical situations and general daftness. I loved how our heroic duo had a quick holiday in Vegas for no real reason and then just headed back to their tent in the desert just in time to get attacked by snakes. Or when a cobra escapes our expert's lab and his boss nearly craps his pants in fear. The emergence of a crazy army officer and the subsequent gunfight were good too, plus the 'snakes in the bath' bit. Overall, a very tame film, but sometimes, when the acting is this bad and the situations hilarious, you can forgive the lack of action. I found Rattles to be quick a fun, daft, film. Also quite refreshing was the fact that the filmmakers didn't resort to killing any real animals, which is a bit of a change from your usual seventies films.

bensonmum2 What a completely ridiculous movie. Rattlers' plot is so nonsensical it's hysterical. A series of snakebite deaths has the local sheriff worried so he calls in a snake expert and male chauvinist, Dr. Tom Parkinson (Sam Chew) for assistance. The sheriff has also seemingly at random hired a photographer and women's libber named Ann Bradley (Elisabeth Chauvet) to help. It's like oil and water when these two get together. But it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that these two will overcome their difference and hop into bed together before the end of the movie. Anyway, Tom and Ann begin searching the desert for . . . well, it's never clear what they hope to find, but boy do they ever search. On foot, in a jeep, and in a helicopter, Tom and Ann tirelessly and endlessly search the desert. The excitement was almost more than I could bear. About the only thing they find is a piece of bloody cloth that is quickly forgotten, never to be mentioned again. Oh, they also find a military storage base. Tom and Ann discover that some of the nerve gas the military buried in the desert has had a strange effect on the rattlesnakes. Of course no other animal is affected – just the snakes. In the end, the snakes are accidentally destroyed in one of the goofiest shootouts ever put on film and Tom and Ann are able to ride off into the sunset having done absolutely nothing to solve the rattlesnake problem. The end.There are quite a few unintentionally hilarious scenes and set-pieces in Rattlers. My absolute favorite moment involves two Army types patrolling the desert in the middle of the night. While tooling around in their jeep, they have a blow-out. They get out to investigate and find that a snake has bitten through their tire. Yes, that's right – a rattlesnake launched itself at a moving jeep, grabbed a tire with its fangs, and bit down hard enough puncture the tire. This has to be the single most stupid thing I've seen in a movie in a long time. Gotta love it! So please don't misinterpret my rating - Rattlers is not a good movie, but it is a funny movie. Intentional or not, I was entertained.