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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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.

Rattlers (1976) ** (out of 4) After a series of snake attacks, an expert (Sam Chew, Jr.) is called in and he's assigned a photographer (Elisabeth Chauvet) and the two set out to discover what the cause is. As they're investigating more violent snake attacks begin happening and it seems an abandoned mine might have something to do with it.RATTLERS is one of many "nature gone wild" movies that were released throughout the 1970s. Obviously the greatest of these was JAWS but there were some pretty good films like GRIZZLY, DAY OF THE ANIMALS and countless television movies. RATTLERS really isn't all that entertaining and the "snake" subgenre had better stuff including SSSSSS and even FROGS had some good snake scenes.If you're a fan of the genre then this one here is certainly still worth watching at least once and there are some effective scenes scattered throughout. The highlight of the movie is a scene where a woman goes to take a bath and gets some uninvited guests. This sequence is directed and edited extremely well and will have your skin crawling. Many of the attack scenes look somewhat cheap because of how they were edited as it's clear most of the time there aren't any snakes anywhere near the person on screen.The biggest problem with this picture is that there's way too much downtime where the characters are just talking back and forth. The dialogue isn't all that entertaining nor is the relationship that blooms between the two leads. The performances by Chew and Chauvet are good but we just needed more snake action.

Okay, I'm exaggerating when I call this a classic, but I like these '70s revenge-of-nature films. I remember seeing the trailers for films like "Rattlers" and "Grizzly" and "Empire of the Ants" on TV when I was a kid. But would my parents ever let me attend these gems? Heavens no! So now I'm making up for lost time as an adult, rediscovering these terrible films from my youth. In many ways these films are like a time machine to another era--an era with bad clothing, terrible dialogue, cool cars, and in-your-face feminism, buster! While you can't really destroy the plot of "Rattlers" (rattlesnakes attack people, duh!), I would urge you to watch the film for the "performance" of the main female lead. You haven't seen cardboard until you've seen her. Wow. Awesome.

Now, we know who put those snakes on the plane.Two kids are killed after falling into a den of rattlers, and the sheriff immediately calls in a snake expert (Sam Chew Jr.). They fell in a rattler den, for goodness sakes! Some good snake scenes, sch as the rattler crawling up the plumber's (Tip McClure) pants, and some ridiculous ones, like the mom (Jo Jordan) in the bathtub getting attacked and not standing up so we could see her.As you would expect the dialog was terrible, and some scenes ridiculous, like the mine shaft explosions. Someone called it the "Plan Nine From Outer Space" of snake movies. I could not say it better.