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Rattlers
Unternehmen Klapperschlange

USA 1976
produced by
John McCauley, Harry H. Novak (executive) for Boxoffice International
directed by John McCauley
starring Sam Chew jr, Elisabeth Chauvet, Dan Priest, Ronald Gold, Al Dunlap, Dan Balentine, Gary Van Ormand, Darwin Joston, Cary J. Pitts, Eric Lawson, Tony Ballen, Richard Lockmiller, Jo Jordan, Scott McCartor, Tipp McClure, Celia Milius (as Celia Kaye), Travis Gold, Alan Decker, Bob Merchon, Ancel Cook, Matt Knox, John Landon
written by Jerry Golding, John McCauley, music by Miles Goodman

Rattlers

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After 2 boys are killed and pretty much bitten to pieces by a flock of rattlesnakes at a ridge near a small desert town, the local sheriff (Tony Ballen) calls in macho scientist Dr. Tom (Sam Chew jr) to investigate, and soon pairs him up with feminist photographer Ann (Elisabeth Chauvet) - so of course, after heated arguments at first, the two will eventually land up in bed together. Anyway, the two learn of other snake attacks, and eventually that leads them to the local army base, where Colonel Stroud (Dan Priest) promises them all the help they need, but it soon becomes apparent that he's hiding something. And the camp's medic, Captain Delaney (Ronald Gold), who eventually turns out to be a biochemist, sure drops a few hints. Eventually, Tom and Ann find out a container with some nerve gas has been dropped into a nearby mine that has then be filled with concrete - but investigating the mine, they find a big nest of rattlesnakes, and barely make it out alive. Likewise, they're later attacked in their tent, and if it wasn't for an army jeep passing by and witnessing them under attack, they wouldn't have made it out alive.

Meanwhile at the camp, Captain Delaney confronts Colonel Stroud about the nerve gas container in the mine, and the Colonel loses it and shoots Delaney dead, then makes it to the container to blow the thing up, only to have a shoot-out with the police at the end of which he along with the container is blown to Kingdom Come ...

 

Now Rattlers really offers very little that one hasn't seen before, as a low budget animal horror flick it's clearly a product of its time, with the genre being very en vogue back when, but in many ways, it's also reminiscent of monster movies of the 1950s (as many 1970s animal horrors were), in both story and location. And frankly I'd be hard pressed to call this a particularly good movie in any meaning of the word, it's just too derivative for that and doesn't try to add originality to the mix - but at the same time it's fun to watch, at least if you're into low budget formula fodder relying on cheap thrills and jump scares mostly.

 

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