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Rattlers 2
USA 2021
produced by Joseph Kelbie Williamson (executive) for SCS Entertainment
directed by Dark Infinity (= Dustin Ferguson)
starring Mel Novak, Brinke Stevens, Mercedes Peterson, D.T. Carney, Erik Anthony Russo, Scott Butler, Thom Michael Mulligan, Julie Anne Prescott, Peter Stickles, Dawna Lee Heising, Shawn C. Phillips, Jzun Lankford, Jenn Nangle, Eric Larsen, Allie Perez, Dawn DuVurger, Ronnie Angel, Ken May, Marvin "Knife" Sotelo, Joshua Moomey, Dustin Wonch, Hunter Bickham, Tino R. Zamora, Tatiana Larrea, Geovonna Casanova, Pat Kusnadi, Jarad Allan, Dark Infinity (= Dustin Ferguson), Ashley Morgan Kilbride
written by Lee Turner, music by Karl Casey, special effects by Juli Hapney, digital effects by Mark Lunn
Rattlers
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Over 40 years ago, the area was swarming with rattlesnakes turned into
killers by a leaked nerve gas (see the first Rattlers),
but since that story's explosive ending, not even a single rattlesnake
bite has been reported to the Sheriff's office - until now that is, when
the rattlers seem to again organize into flocks to attack people with no
provocation. The local Sheriff (D.T. Carney) wants a full scale
investigation, but Commissioner Lewis (Mel Novak) shoots down the
suggestion as the grand opening of a pet project of his is right around
the corner. Even without the Commissioner's permission, the Sheriff calls
in snake specialists Dr. Kaye (Mercedes Peterson) and Professor McCauley
(Scott Butler), but they fail to find any residues of the nerve gas from
back when in the area - in other words, they have no idea why the snakes
all of a sudden perform organized attacks. Then though they, together with
Deputy Warrick (Erik Anthony Russo), find a trail that leads to a local
plastic manufacturer, where some rules seem to have been bent a little
with the blessing of the Commissioner - and that could answer quite a few
things. And answers are duly needed as the Commissioner's pet project's
grand opening, with fireworks and everything, is right around the corner,
and that's not an event one would want killer rattlers at ... Horror
fave Brinke Stevens can be seen as the rattlesnakes bath tub victim. Now
the original Rattlers from 1976
was a nice piece of animal horror reminiscent of monster movies from the
1950s, but hardly a classic in the original sense of the word - and in all
these respects, Rattlers 2 is a very worthy successor: It doesn't
lay any claims on having re-invented the wheel, and is proud of its
sources - to the point where it has incorporated quite some lumps of the
original Rattlers into its story
-, all the while acknowledging its formula but aiming at cool genre
entertainment - and that's where the film surely succeeds.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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