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2002·93 min·Released

Snake Island

“Fear strikes without warning.”

Action
Horror
Thriller

A group of American tourists heading down an African river make a brief stop at Snake Island, an island that has been virtually abandoned for years. When they end up getting trapped on the island overnight, they find thousands of deadly snakes intent on reclaiming the tropical island for themselves.

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Cast & Crew

William Katt

William Katt

Malcolm Page

Wayne Crawford

Wayne Crawford

Jake Malloy

Kate Connor

Kate Connor

Heather Dorsey

Russel Savadier

Russel Savadier

Eddie Trent Jones

Dawn Matthews

Dawn Matthews

Lisa

Milan Murray

Milan Murray

Carrie

Jason Kennett

Jason Kennett

Lance

Japan Mthembu

Japan Mthembu

Righteous

Nicola Hanekom

Nicola Hanekom

Ronnie

Seth Zweli Zimu

Seth Zweli Zimu

Ramalo

Rohan Coll

Rohan Coll

Estate Agent

Jonathan Taylor

Jonathan Taylor

Client One

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Wuchak

Written on 4/20/2019

***Snakes on an Island*** A group of tourists, resort workers & guides in South Africa struggle to survive after getting stranded on an island with a profusion of deadly snakes. William Katt (Malcolm), Wayne Crawford (Jake) and Kate Connor (Heather) emerge as the main protagonists. Crawford also directed and co-wrote the script. “Snake Island” (2002) is a low-budget South African production with a few American actors; it probably cost half of what the typical SyFy flick costs. But it gives you what you pay for (although I hope you watched it for free): a plethora of snakes, authentic African locations, a mildly entertaining survival situation with an okay cast, a subdued sense of humor and some decent horror. It helps that most of the snakes appear to be real rather than CGI. But it’s overall pedestrian, unfortunately. I guess it doesn’t help that I don’t find snakes particularly frightening. Director/writer Crawford tried to perk things up with a tiki party sequence wherein the group lets their hair down and some of the females start dancing topless. But the women, while okay, aren’t anything overly alluring, although Kate Connor eventually won me over. The film runs 1 hour, 30 minutes and was shot in South Africa. GRADE: C/C-

GenerationofSwine

Written on 1/12/2023

Well, it has Wayne Crawford and he is always remarkably watchable, being one of those actors that never really made it big, has a body of work that is mostly low budget fair, but still seems to entertain even in the worst of films. However, it takes place in Africa and that is curious because there is a real Snake Island off the coast of Brazil and it's little details like that which really annoy me when I sit down to watch a movie. Was Brazil not an exotic enough location to add the realism of setting it in Ilha da Queimada Grande? Or was it that pit vipers simply didn't have the star power behind them so they chose to relocate the entire thing across the Atlantic? Despite that, it's not Anaconda, they use real snakes and that is a plus to me. Something ridiculously huge is more comical than anything, but the real snake plays to my near pathological ophidiophobia fairly well...making the movie, at least for me and the chaotic camera work certainly adds to the energetic feel I experience when encountering a snake in real life. So, to say the least, I found it extremely unsettling to watch, despite people yelling "Is it poisonous" when it is clearly a cobra.

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Snake Island (Cobras) (Kigyok Szigete) (Wayne Crawford, Sudafrica, 2002) - Trailer

Snake Island (Cobras) (Kigyok Szigete) (Wayne Crawford, Sudafrica, 2002) - Trailer

Snake Island - Trailer

Snake Island - Trailer