Python * (2000, Casper Van Dien, Robert Englund, Wil Wheaton, Jenny McCarthy, Frayne Rosanoff) – Classic Movie Review 8098

Director Richard Clabaugh’s 2000 film Python is a really atrocious horror movie, wasting Casper Van Dien (as Bart Parker), Robert Englund (as Dr Anton Rudolph) and Wil Wheaton (as Tommy), with a laughable script by Chris Neal, Gary Hershberger and Paul Bogh, from a story by Phillip J Roth, pathetic production, risible effects and some rotten acting.

With its giant man-eating snake setting off on the rampage, it looks as though it might be fun, along Lake Placid lines, but it is a really annoying waste of time.

Also in the cast are Frayne Rosanoff, William Zabka, Dana Barron, Jenny McCarthy, Chris Owens, Sean Whalen as Deputy Lewis Ross, Gary Grubbs as Sheriff Griffin Wade, Scott Williamson as Kenny Summers and Ed Lauter.

Python is directed by Richard Clabaugh, runs 99 minutes, is made by Python Productions LLC and Unified Film Organization, released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, is written by Chris Neal, Gary Hershberger and Paul Bogh, from a story by Phillip J Roth, is shot by Patrick Rousseau, is produced by Jeffery Beach is scored by Daniel J Nielsen and designed by David Huang.

It joins in the gallery of infamy those other great terrible giant snake movies, Anaconda (1997) and King Cobra (1999).

Python 2 followed in 2002. Astoundingly, it is even worse.

The film’s python has fangs but pythons kill through strangulation and a python’s fangs do not have enough venom to kill a human

A full-scale python head was made and used but is never seen in the film.

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