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Release Date:
June 13, 1999
Original Title:
Silent Predators
Genres:
Action | Horror | TV Movie | Thriller
Production Companies:
Von Zerneck Sertner Films
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 91
In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter.
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Associate Producer:
Peter Sadowski
Casting:
Fern Orenstein
Susan Glicksman
Co-Executive Producer:
H. Daniel Whitman
William S. Gilmore
Co-Producer:
Erik Storey
Leslie Lipton
Ted Babcock
Costume Design:
Graham Purcell
Director:
Noel Nosseck
Director of Photography:
John Stokes
Editor:
Tod Feuerman
Executive Producer:
Frank von Zerneck
Robert M. Sertner
Original Music Composer:
Michael Tavera
Producer:
Richard D. Arredondo
Randy Sutter
Production Design:
Jon Dowding
Set Decoration:
Paul Hurrell
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