Copperhead

When I saw the premise behind this movie, I was thankful to see that instead of having one large digital snake eating up the population, there were several thousand digital snakes taking over the town.  SPOILER ALERT, there is a large digital snake that also makes a guest appearance.  Medusa's Face is no stranger to large digital snakes.  It also is no stranger to several other actors who have been reviewed in these other B epics: Alien Siege, Bats: Human Harvest, Star Runners, MegaSnake, S.S. Doomtrooper and something tells me many more that I have not watched yet.  It's nice to see so many familiar faces.

 

In the years of the wild west, "Wild" Bill Longley is passing through a town in New Mexico on his way to California and wanted to see a friend of his.  But the friend has been killed by the Jesse Evans Gang.  People in this town are fearful of Jesse, even the sheriff.  Heck, the sheriff is fearful of his own britches.  What Wild Bill knows that nobody else knows is that there is a heap of snakes coming for the town.  If he doesn't get revenge for his friend, Murphy, then the snakes will.

 

After a standoff with Jesse, Wild Bill rallies the town to a) get rid of Jesse's gang and b) put up a fight against the snakes.  Cue the western montage.  Ditches are dug, guns are loaded, a gatling gun, and for good measure - a flame thrower.  The first few hundred snakes do like they are supposed to and go down the center of the town and basically wait to be killed.  It's the other several thousand that come over buildings and begin taking on the town folk.

 

Solution: blow up the saloon where nearly all of the snakes have congregated.  Simple enough, right.  Wrong.  The dynamite is down the street and most of the people are in the saloon.  They figure out a way to blow up the snakes, but one person makes a keen observation.  These snakes are babies.  The momma shows up soon enough.  She is probably about 20 feet long.  Similar to the size of snake in MegaSnake.  Now they have to kill the largest copperhead in the history of copperheads.  Killing one massive snake proves a lot easier than killing several thousand of normal sized snakes, because they take out that large snake rather quickly.

 

The story is alright.  They don't really explain why several thousand snakes gathered together to begin roaming across the countryside.  No real good quality death scenes either.  The digital snakes look like digital snakes.  Not much to look forward to there.  One of the best exchanges in the movie, " Where is everybody?"  "Dead, remember."  Classic.

 

If you have the time and this movie happens to be showing, you might be able to sit through it.  I wouldn't make an effort to see it though.

 

I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 fireplace pokers.