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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: If you saw House of Wax you've already seen the same basic premise executed with more skill, plus had the unspeakable joy of watching Paris Hilton get skewered. Venom, alas, can't afford Paris Hilton. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Even the title is lame, but it does convey the movie's overall effect: numbing and toxic. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Jim Gillespie (I Know What You Did Last Summer) directs and while one might naively believe that the absence of Jennifer Love Hewitt would in itself predict an advance in moviemaking, one would be sadly mistaken. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: There's nothing clever about this movie. It starts too slow, plot points are abandoned and even the killings start to run together. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: [Director Jim Gillespie] seems to understand the genre better than the clueless who've been delivering recent Hollywood superschlock remakes like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and House of Wax. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Venom is a horror film full of swampy Southern atmosphere and voodoo creepiness. Unfortunately, it comes after The Skeleton Key, which mined the same territory and did it with more imagination and style. Read more
Janice Page, Boston Globe: Venom is so far beneath comparisons to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer that it would have to add a Jennifer Love Hewitt cameo just to keep company with the worst sequels of those popular movies. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Smartly directed by Jim Gillespie from a script by various hands, Venom ... follows its stylish, energetic and darkly amusing horror movie tradition. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though not meant to be taken seriously, Venom is no chucklefest but rather a harrowing ordeal in the ruthlessly violent vein of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: This straight-up slasher flick probably should have gone straight to video for the cheesy-looking, computer-generated snakes alone. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Basically just a moss-strewn remake of his 1997 hit, I Know What You Did Last Summer. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: It seems like all of the filmmaker's creative energy was channeled into the gory imagery, while thematic linkage was an afterthought. Venom has a meandering story to match its misleading title. Read more
Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News: A witless, derivative slasher flick. Read more
Anita Gates, New York Times: Venom certainly can't be called a good movie, but within the horror genre it's perfectly palatable. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Jim Gillespie's direction is better than the material deserves. If this one rattles your cage, it is a rickety structure indeed. Read more
Time Out: The slasher cliches on reshuffle are old enough to predate the births of most of the flick's nubile victims-to-be, including tight-T-shirt wearer Agnes Bruckner. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: As mindless scare machines go, Dimension Films' bayou-set slasher thriller acquits itself well enough. Gratuitously gory and derivative to the core, Venom manages to deliver some effective frights in between large swaths of voodoo gibberish. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Venom reprises all the tedium of slasher flicks, from the idiots who scream and trip and fall rather than simply run away to the macho killer who can't be stopped. There's no antidote for that. Read more