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:
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:Â 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.

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…??