Venom Coast

Once again the title and advertising pic caught my attention and I did not pay attention to the low reviews...What a divot, I should know better by now but I am always hoping to find a gem amongst the coal of movies and so subject my eyeballs to the most excruciatingly bad movie ordure!

Utterly atrocious acting from the very first word of the very first scene. Mind bendingly annoying characters, each and every one who you want to see mass murdered within the moment the girls start screeching on the boat and the men start abusing the ship by throwing cans around and uttering the worst dialogue possible, shaky camera work, feeble backstory, zero characterization but I held on in the hope there might be an iota of decent horror in there...sadly it was not to be! They could have thrown in some good looking eye candy but even that was a let down - does no one know the basics of making a horror movie these days?

Utter kerrap and I hate using bad language, I rarely do but sometimes only that simple and effective expletive will suffice to show my extreme displeasure at what movie producers throw money at these days - The current IMDB rating of 3.2 is overly generous!

Avoid this one like the plague, it is the equivalent of a cinematic dog tvrd!

The acting was not great and the girls screeching would have annoyed me on holiday! Whilst not much story it was strangely mesmerising and watch out for the twist at the end!

If you put Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jason Takes Manhattan into a blender and added a pinch of Under Siege, Venom Coast would resemble something of the concoction that would result. As far as newer microbudget horror films go, it certainly ranks above average and features one of the most grotesque rogues' galleries of killers seen in a long time. Speaking of kills, the victims in this movie are dispatched in creative and gory ways with some very noteworthy practical effects on display.

Venom Coast is recommended for fans of the new breed of films commonly referred to as the "people of privilege suffer" genre seen in such recent movies as Infinity Pool, The Menu, and to an extent, the two as of this date produced Knives Out films. Not recommended for viewers who might have a penchant to feel superior to their material as a lot of the onscreen victims do make horrible decisions to their detriment in this film, but it's way too easy make an assertion that one would come out better than the characters from a position of seated armchair comfort. By far the biggest flaw that comes about in the film is the ending. Without saying much, things get messy for some of the characters involved in the story on account of a major mistake they make, but it comes off as a missed opportunity with how it is dealt with in the script. Instead of further addressing the moral complications of said mistake and fleshing out the ending with a bit more conflict and drama, the film takes a much easier route which is a bit of a shame. All in all though, Venom Coast is well made and highly entertaining. If you want a good old school popcorn slasher movie, it delivers.

If I could give this movie a big fat ZERO I would. Don't waste your time on the crappy plot, crappy acting and just all around crap this movie spews throughout it's entirety.

I watch a lot of bad films, but this is awful with nothing charming about it.

Some parts of the film are like an f'd up porn, and it's extremely rapey. And when that scene happens it's looooonnngg drawn out, and frankly just painful to watch. The character is doing a lot of screaming and crying that lasts for ages, while multiple men are being creepy and worse.

The set up could have been interesting for a slasher with luring people on to the cruise ship. But it's just all round terrible, with bad acting.

The characters are all really annoying, with no character development either, and the character personalities are completely flat. Honestly it is not a good watch on any count.