King Cobra
King Cobra
PG-13 | 10 August 1999 (USA)
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30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.

Reviews
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
ma-cortes The film tells about Dr Burns in charge a environment lab making scientific experiments but it turns out to be a bio-genetically King Cobra that has a taste for human flesh .The researcher makes a chemical crossing two species, creating a weird and dangerous hybrid ,being transformed into deadly vipers: an African King Cobra and an American rattle snake with approximate length of thirty feet and whose bites killing its victims.But the laboratory instantly explodes .Two years later the giant snake makes a reappearance and and get loose, attacking at a small town and threaten the populace.Noriyuki, Pat Morita as a snakes expert tells: the African King cobra kills more people than one shark along hundred years .Morita says the snakes have bitten him 167 occasions and he's continuously injecting serum and keeps records with a bite black Mamba snake.The King Cobra simulates death for attraction the victims. and causing a breakdown of the blood cells.The poisonous Cobra-Rattler attack at random and slither down the mountainside,woods and slither around small town,ready to attack anyone in its path.This is an average scary snake movie .Creepy,scary,campy and low budgeter story about a large snake attacking human beings. Mediocre performances though the actors reacts appropriately to becoming snake food.Rather sympathetic characterization by Pat Morita for the horror genre.Besides Hoyt Axton as the Mayor and Eric Strada as a gay man organizing the brew-fest.The snake are made by Animatronics ,no by nowadays very prolific computer generator,as usual. Another films about this sub-genre are : SSS(Bernard Kowalski),the successful Anaconda(Luis Llosa with Jennifer López),Python 1,2,Boa and Rattlers.The motion picture is regularly directed by David Hillenbrand.
leeaf83 I saw this movie after reading plenty of the negative reviews on IMDb so I had low expectations.The good; -this film had the scariest and most realistic snake of any snake movie I've seen including the Anaconda and Python movies. I've seen people slam it because the snake didn't look real enough but even the shark in Jaws looked rather fake (not claiming this is equal to Jaws or even in the same class but people need to cut films some slack and realize that not everything is 100% factual). -a fairly good musical score -scares: a few scenes where the snake pops out of nowhere to attack really sends chills up your spine -Pat Moriata: I have never seen the Karate Kid so I have no bias but he definitely played a cool characterthe bad: -several Jaws rip off scenes; the scare at the beginning (though to be fair all giant predator movies seem to have attacks at the start) except done inferiorly due to breaking the rule of showing the creature on the first attack. The blatant ripoff line "we're going to need bigger guns" and the plot line of a money hungry mayor not wanting to close down an event to protect the civilians from the monster and eventual hiring of an expert of the monster in question -some of the death scenes were long and drawn out and predictable. The director did a good job with a false scare early in the movie with using the attacker as the camera peering up to a little girl only to realize that it was her brother sneaking up on her with a rubber snake (though this may be a copy of the Jaws scene with the pranksters swimming with a a shark fin on to scare the people on the beach), we then get a long drawn out stalking of the King Cobra on the little boy. It would have worked much better to have the snake pop out of nowhere. -we end with an unresolved cliffhanger; Seth is still alive but likely no sequelFinal grade: 7 out of 10
Coventry To start off with a little bit of good news... "King Cobra" is definitely better than all its fellow, recent creature-features handling about ridiculously big snakes, like "Python", "New Alcatraz" (a.k.a "Boa") and even the box-office hit "Anaconda". The special effects and the animatronic snake look really good here and the Hillenbrand brothers have at least have some directing skills. Still, all this can't hide the fact that "King Cobra" is an overall lame flick and, moreover, as unoriginal as humanly possible. As usual, the story opens with obnoxious scientists performing experiments – for no particular reason – with the world's most dangerous species of snakes. The laboratory goes boom and a humongous cobra escapes towards a little redneck-town where it starts to have the locals for lunch. Remarkble, however, is that this seems to take place only two years after the lab-explosion. Supposedly the 40 foot long snake just hijacked around unnoticed for that whole period... Many people turn up dead and their corpses filled with venom in the beer town of Fillmore but, in the good tradition of Spielberg's "Jaws", the local authorities initially refuse to accept the problem, as this would result in an economic disaster.Granted, some sequences surely have tension and an effective build-up, but there never are real surprises or shocking moments. The Hillenbrand brothers also sometimes attempt to bring more depth into their script but this never properly leads anywhere. There's the bizarre sequence, for example, where professional the snake-hunter (Pat Morita) prevents someone else from killing the snake when he has the chance. Does he insist on killing it himself? Does he wish to keep it alive? Does it have to be killed using a special method? I do admit the dumb bunch of hunters made me chuckle and I stupidly loved the unsubtle Jaws-reference ("We're gonna need bigger guns..."). "King Cobra" is a generally incoherent film with more plot-holes than a teabag and unfortunately only a couple of good moments. Creature-Features are a terrific sub-genre in horror, but giant-snake films rarely ever work...except for the 1982 "Venom", maybe...
erwan_ticheler It's tough to say whether I'm ever going to see a worser movie,but this will surely and hopefully remain as my personal worst movie!Nothing in this movie is good,the Cobra or Rattlesnake or whatever it is,looks like a cartoon character. The acting is terrible and the story is even worse.How come that the snake escapes and appears again two years later?The story itself is a total rip-off of Jaws,with entire scenes copied of this classic horror picture. The tension is never there because the monster is absolutely not appealing.The ending makes one laugh,especially when Master Miyagi(what's his real name?) gets killed by the snake. The final scene is the scariest scene because it appears that the snake escapes from the place where he was captured and supposed to be killed. Only the haunting thought of a sequel keeps you up all night!. 0/10 isn't possible,but I would advice the IMDB to make it possible!!!