SERPENT is truly one of the worst films I've seen in recent years, a movie which drops below the quality of even a silly B-flick like those produced by The Asylum. It's a zero budget offering in which an unlikeable young couple go through a lengthy and interminable set-up before finding themselves trapped in a tent with a deadly snake. That's it. So another version of the popular single location thriller film, except one that totally lacks in suspense, wit, insight and depth. The characters trade banal dialogue and boring "secrets" while the camera guy seems only interested in shooting down his lead actress's top. It really is interminable.

In a nutshell! Unlikeable couple , as usual a Brit guy and an American lady camp up some uninteresting place. She is cheating on her plank of wood husband and whilst sneaking out of the tent to make a secret text to her unseen ex lover I presume, the silly old bat lets a snake into the tent. The snake doesnt look to scary. He dances, he hisses, he is here, there and everywhere whilst this stupid couple whisper incoherently coz if they move this snake will take a bite coz he is trapped. Also the Brit bobble head discovers his long streaky wife has been cheating

The problem here is that snake. I have no idea which country they are in, nor what breed of snake that snake is. I know its not the States but they were driving on the left side of the road. Can't be the U.K as we have no poisonous snakes here. Anyway this vengeful snake pursues the thick Brit out of the tent and into the river. They have a battle. He kills the snake. Then he climbs up some rock face to get his bag (why did he leave it up there?). Anyway theres a venom cure in the bag. But still they both croak it. Bah! Waste of time.

Adam (Tom Ainsley) is a South African entomologist with a great assignment. He is to travel to a remote area to seek and study what may be a new species of beetle that has a small ecosystem. They are located in Suicide Gorge. His wife Gwyn (Sarah Dumont) almost showers and insists on traveling with him. She is having an affair because Adam is good looking, intelligent, and cooks for her. If you look at the back of the DVD cover, you know they get trapped inside a small tent with a Black Mamba without Elle Driver to read to us.

There is a Biblical parallel with the serpent, a man named Adam and a woman who has eaten the forbidden fruit, letting the serpent into their lives, threatening their expulsion from paradise on Earth. However well acted, it amounts to a two person play, one that is almost as boring as a one person play with Sarah in her bra and panties. The ending could have gone a number of ways, they tossed in some hallucinations because they could.

Guide: Sex. No swearing or nudity.