First, there was "Snakes on a Plane". Next, we were given "Snakes on a Train" by poverty-row studio The Asylum. Now, with "Silent Venom", we are given (thanks to notorious director Fred Olen Ray) snakes on a submarine! In fairness to Ray, this movie looks a lot better than a lot of his past cheapies. They actually got a decent-looking submarine set, for one thing, and it's acceptably photographed. But those looking for low budget horror thrills will be very disappointed. The movie is pretty dull in its tone, the movie moves very slowly, and there's very little blood. (Also, the CGI snakes look REALLY bad and are not the least bit scary.) The movie has a lot of stuff happen offscreen or is never explains (Just what is that mysterious substance that's found on a pipe at one point?) Perry looks aged, and Berenger fans will be disappointed because he's hardly in the movie. To sum up, it's incomprehensible that a major Hollywood studio would handle this direct-to-DVD release.

Wow. This one is bad even by SyFy's incredibly low standards. I'm pretty sure the number of snakes i counted and the number of snakes the characters say are on the sub are radically different, even accommodating the same snake showing up in multiple scenes. And subs apparently are run by eight-man crews. And...sort of spoiler...if you are going to electrocute a snake by sticking a live cable in its mouth, don't hold onto the snake's neck while you are doing it or letting it lay on top of you while you do it, and don't then drop the live cable on a metal floor that you are still lying on. I think that could be a bit worse than dying by snake bite. As a point of comparison, this is actually worse than Ice Spiders, and I wasn't sure anything could be worse than that.

This movie was sooooooo crappy. The only thing that was interesting in it was that they combined a "submarine war movie (there aren't that many of those) with a "creature feature movie" ..... but it was hardly a successful endeavour.Yes it's true, the CGI rendering of the giant snakes was a total joke! Oh and I must comment on Krista Allen (the only woman in the film): Her acting is TERRIBLE! Seriously, its as if she was on Botox the whole movie because the expression on her face hardly changed and therefore she seemed like she had no reaction to the current situation! Don't get me wrong, she is gorgeous, but she would be much better suited to be a model or a porn actress where she won't need any acting skills.Bottom line, go watch one of the "Anaconda" movies if you want a creature feature with big bad CGI snakes ........ they are a lot more entertaining than this piece of bunk.

Silent Venom starts on Manku Island in the East China Sea where military research scientist Dr. Andrea Swanson (Krista Allen) & her assistant Jake Goldin (Louis Mandylor) have been breeding local radiation infected Snakes with Pit Vipers to produce angry killer mutant Snakes some of which are huge. The Chinese authorities seem to have caught on to what's going on & the top brass back in the US send a submarine in on a rescue mission before the Chinese get there, Lt. Commander James O'Neill (Luke Perry) gets the job done & with Dr. Swanson, her assistant Jake & a container full of twenty deadly Snakes on-board his submarine sets off home. However a stupid sailor opens the container full of deadly Snakes & lets them loose, the Snakes quickly start attacking the crew who all die because of the deadly venom. With the Chinese military above them, the deep blue sea all around them & trapped inside a submarine full of deadly Snakes the odds of survival are not good...Directed by Fred Olen Ray this apparently had the working title Recoil & has a TV title of Sea Snakes although under whatever title you see it this is a really bad 'Creature Feature' that seems to want to rip-off Snakes on a Plane (2006) as it substitutes a plane for a submarine even if it did come three years too late to cash-in on the Hollywood flick. Silent Venom is our typical awful 'Creature Feature' only set on a submarine, the very start of the film features a giant Snake but the majority of the rest of it just features ordinary sized ones that just slither around & really don't do anything else apart from bite the odd crew member. Most of the clichés are here, the military experiments gone wrong (although I am at a loss to see what purpose these experiments could have had in the first place), a scientist, a leading military officer, the isolated location, the monster/animal/insect threat & there's even a bit of time for some awful dramatics in the style of The Hunt for Red October (1990) as there's a bit of warmongering between US & Chinese submarines although this angle is really pathetic as we never see any Chinese submarine or crew or learn what their plan is as it's all relayed through dull exposition scenes on the US submarine. At just over 80 odd minutes Silent Venom feels longer, it has no pace or excitement & even as a bad 'Creature Feature' this is awful stuff with next to nothing happening & a forgettable climax.The Snakes used here are mostly real & they offer up no threat at all, they seem totally disinterested in doing anything other than just slithering across the floor & it's almost laughable to see the actor's trying to act scared of them when the Snakes appear completely harmless. When CGI computer effects are used they are predictably terrible & unintentionally funny. There's zero gore, the Snakes just bite people & then they die. Krista Allan talks about taking a shower but she never does on screen therefore there is nudity either. Silent Vanom has no scares, no atmosphere & the cramped conditions of a submarine are not utilized at all & the whole thing just feels below par like no-one was interested in making a good film. Wouldn't firing guns in an enclosed space like a submarine be a very dangerous thing to do? No-one here seems bothered about any potential hull breach.The IMDb reckons Silent Venom had a budget of about $2,000,000 which sounds like a lot of money for such a rubbishy film, in fact I don't think there's any way Silent Venom would have cost even half that much. Krista Allen looks quite cute & what on Earth is one time Oscar nominated actor Tom Berenger doing in a film as bad as this?Silent Venom is a really awful 'Creature Feature' of the worst kind, it's a total rip-off of a much better film & it's not even fun, there's no gore or nudity & the plot is dull. One to avoid unless your a die hard 'Creature Feature' fanatic or just plain desperate.