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Snakes on a Fan Homage… Uh… Ripoff?
July 11th, 2006 at 10:11 pm

The Asylum is a company which seems dedicated to making films that parody (or ripoff?) otherwise successful Hollywood fare. They’ve got Pirates of Treasure Island (not Pirates of the Caribbean), they’ve got 666: The Child (not the Omen) and now they have:

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Snakes on a Train

Here’s the plot:

Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the passengers aboard, they are now trapped, soon to be victims of these flesh-eating vipers.

Fairly surprising, eh? Something else that’s weird about this is that David Ellis’s next film is called Asylum. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

Anybody want to see Snakes on a Train?

UPDATE posted 7/12/06 at 3:47pm:  Cinematical has an interview with David Michael Latt, the guy in charge of the Asylum, if you’re interested in more insight into this company.



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I’ve seen those other two movies at my local BlockBuster–had a nice chuckle as I walked right past them. So sad to see the great Lance Henriksen sunk so low, to play Long John Silver in such a D-grade flick.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811011/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783492/

Odd–no listing for “SoaT” on IMDb yet…??

Comment by Armitage112 — July 11, 2006 @ 10:20 pm

OMFG can we sue for copyright infringement?

Comment by Snakes in Europe — July 12, 2006 @ 1:58 am

that sucks… Snakes on a Plane is the greatest thing that will ever happen to the world… how can someone disrespect this movie like that!?

Comment by Andrew in Santa Cruz — July 12, 2006 @ 5:00 am

You can just stop the train and walk away. Problem solved.

Comment by Raoul — July 12, 2006 @ 8:41 am

OMG–I just read the link for “666: The Child”–the omnious pre-pubescent Anti-Christ is played by BOO BOO STEWART!! LOL–all hail BOO BOO!!! Fear the evil that IS BOO BOO!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Comment by Armitage112 — July 12, 2006 @ 10:07 am

For my German Project, me and my friends made a 20 minute German Film called Snakes On A Train (because Trains are so popular in Germany, we thought we should make a version just for them). OUR FILM CHALLENGES THEIRS TO A FIGHT!

Comment by JulesWinfield — July 12, 2006 @ 11:48 am

Can anyone post the quicktime trailer on Youtube or as a .wmv?

Comment by Phil — July 12, 2006 @ 1:00 pm

“Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the passengers aboard, they are now trapped, soon to be victims of these flesh-eating vipers.”

There’s almost nothing right with this paragraph. Snakes inside a woman? I don’t think so, folks. And if she needs to get across the border, why not take a train to, oh…THE BORDER? There’s a train from San Diego, for example, to over the border in Mexico (I assume she’s going to Mexico). And while we’re on the subject…a Mayan curse? And “flesh-eating” vipers? All snakes are carnivores. All of them. And if a lethally venomous snake bit you (inside or out), you’d die, end of story. I mean this’d last all of a minute, this film.

I quoteth Family Guy: “No, no, nothing about this adds up at all…”

Snakes on a Plane had a REASONABLE, REALISTIC plot in which a man puts snakes on a plane despite the illegality of snakes in Hawaii and releases snake pheromones into the ventilation system to piss the snakes off so that when they get out, they’ll attack everyone in sight, and a large and badass man shall yell, “I’ve had it with these snakes!” and take them all out. That’s REALSITIC. Because damnit, you know Sam Jackson could do that in real life. He’s BADASS.

Yeah, I think I’ve made my point. Snakes on a PLANE. Not a damned TRAIN.

Comment by Ann — July 12, 2006 @ 1:28 pm

WHY?

It doesn’t even have Samuel L Jackson in it!

Comment by Snakes in a Pub! — July 12, 2006 @ 3:15 pm

You’re all idiots!

Comment by Anti — July 13, 2006 @ 4:37 pm

Cooo cooo cajoob… Pidgeons on the mutha f-ing EL!

http://community.livejournal.com/chicago_el/264836.html

Comment by pidgeon on the el — July 13, 2006 @ 8:00 pm

Well, truth be told SNAKES ON A TRAIN is a horror film, and not an action film…which is why our girl has snakes inside her. It’s a small point, but a point I’m willing to hang onto.

Anyway…I’m looking forward in seeing the PLANE version. Jackson is the baddest mutharf*ker in town — and I love a good action film.

Peace-
Latt
(producer, SNAKES ON A TRAIN)

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