Rattle snakes are attacking in droves and unprovoked. A militarily bio-lab is in the area. Sam Chew Jr. and Elisabeth Chauvet investigate.This is a pretty straight forward, not too mysterious film with cut footage of rattlers added, but not as obvious as a fine Ed Wood production. I watched the film on a 50 DVD set and the sound was not restored, hollow in some areas, uneven in others, and a buzz at the end. Film quality could have been better too. It does contain the classic woman in the tub scene as snakes come into the tub and she doesn't even try to get out.Guide: No swearing of nudity. Implied sex.

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.

*Spoiler/plot- Rattlers, 1976. A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.*Special Stars- Sam Chew Jr, Dan Priest, Ronald Gold.*Theme- Military actions always causes public damage. *Trivia/location/goofs- In some shots of Tom and the helicopter pilot flying through the desert you can tell that they are actually on the ground and that the helicopter's blades are not turning by the reflection in their sunglasses. Costume goof- The soldier who looks in Ann's truck for the snake has his uniform rank on upside down.*Emotion- Very much on the same plot as "Grizzly" and "Empire of the Ants". See a better TV MOvie, "Rattled" '96. A really cheesy wild drive-up movie with a twist of horror and attacking animal themes. Laughable and you can see the plot coming for miles in this film. NOT very memorable.*Based on- Dangerous snakes fears.

Killer rattlesnakes of the American Southwest gather up in large numbers and start unprovoked attacks on people, and it's up to a male expert on reptiles and a female photographer to find out why and stop them. "Rattlers" has a thin, one-note script that can barely sustain even the 79 minutes of its running time, and the snake-attack scenes aren't anything to write home about either, though at least the snakes are real which is instantly preferable to the obvious CGI we would probably get in a similar film today. The print I saw was in pretty poor shape, and made a constant crackling sound, as if someone was burning it up; the movie is not offensively bad (apart maybe from the scene near the end where the two heroes are enjoying a carefree romance in Vegas without having done anything to stop the snakes first!), but it is so unremarkable that if someone DID burn the master print up few people would probably notice. On a side note, the female lead is absolutely gorgeous. I was somewhat surprised to find out that she never made another film. (**)