IC's B Movie Reviews

King Cobra (1999)

Tease on Box Cover at Video Store: It's 30 Feet of Pure Terror!

Story: Classic stupid horror movie plotline. Scientists trying to create an aggression formula blow up their lab. We think Carrot Top blew up the lab... Giant mutant snake gets loose. Half Rattlesnake, Half Cobra - 30 feet long.

Conversation During the Movie:
Kyle: "This is eerily like an episode of 'Pacific Blue' ... except they're not on the beach."
Brian: "And a giant mutant snake is on the loose."

Tracy: "Here comes the famous ninja talk"

Kyle: "You're our next guest on 'Let's Get Poisoned!'"

This movie is just chock full of every horror movie cliche ever devised. You can predict who's going to die about 5 minutes before it happens. Oh yes...

Corpse Count: 13
Animal Corpse Count: 2

There's also the ever popular monster-cam, which we dubbed the Magic 97 Reptile-on-Wheels after a DJ Service offered by a U.P. radio station.

Special Appearance by Panch from CHiPs, as a flaming festival planner.

Classic monster-on-the-loose, but 'there's a festival that can't be shut down' plot ( a la Jaws, Alligator II, etc.)

There's the requisite bad rock song, gratuitous animal-pop-out-and-scare-you scene, a token mini-kid in the movie. It's a classic.

Overall, this isn't the movie I'd start out an B Movie marathon with. It's definitely more middle-of-the-road B movie material. However, it has it's moments that you'll be laughing at for a long time.

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