"Paul Donohue" (William Katt) is a consultant for a new construction project which involves the use of repeated blasts of dynamite to clear a large area of wilderness. What nobody knows is that these blasts have disturbed several huge rattlesnake dens which unleashes several hundreds of these hungry and extremely aggressive snakes upon a newly created housing development. Unfortunately, due to a few isolated incidents the residents are completely unaware of the danger that awaits them until they find large numbers of these reptiles slithering into their yards and homes. Now rather than reveal any more of this picture and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this particular film turned out to be more suspenseful than I initially thought it would. Part of the reason for my doubts rested on the fact that made-for-television movies are quite often deliberately neutered in order to play to a general audience. This film was no exception to that rule. Fortunately, the director (Tony Randel) managed to keep a certain amount of tension going to effectively retain my interest for the most part. Likewise, the performances of Shanna Reed (as Paul's wife "Krista Donohue"), Monica Lacy (as Krista's daughter, "Michelle") along with the aforementioned William Katt were also pretty decent. On the flip side, I thought the family drama involving Krista's son "Adam" (Michael Galeota) was quite annoying and reduced the film's overall effectiveness. In any case, all things considered I rate this movie as about average.

You could call this movie "Arachnophobia" only with, well, snakes. It has a comparable story and even some of the characters shows similarities. "Arachnophobia" is still a more entertaining movie though, while "Rattled" also isn't too bad on its own. It chooses a more serious approach but not without being entertaining.Quite amazing that a movie with such a concept still picks a serious approach. Nevertheless it works out better than you would expect. While "Rattled" isn't exactly an exciting or scary movie to watch it's still an effective one. Maybe it would had been better still if it had picked a more B-movie, over-the-top, type of approach but this also didn't really worked out well for "Eight Legged Freaks", so well who knows, maybe this was still the best possible approach to go with in the long run.It's of course a fairly predictable movie, that because of that, also doesn't ever become an engaging or thrilling one. The characters also aren't interesting enough for that and at times the movie even feels more like a soap-opera than a real horror flick.Also quite disappointing that the snakes get to do so little interesting. Or at least I expected an higher body-count. Only poor Clint Howard gets killed, after he has been in the movie for about 2 minutes. The snakes do attack but they could had given the movie a bigger sense of danger and more horror like if more characters got killed off and also in some more gruesome ways.The movie now remains fairly light and tame to watch, which is also understandable, considering that this is a made for TV movie. In that regard of being a made for TV movie, this is still a rather good one and well made one. It's definitely better than you would expect in advance for it to be and the concept works out better than it looks like on paper.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Why did it have to be snakes? Maybe because director Tony Randel (a graduate of the Roger Corman school of budget horror film-making) already did "Ticks". Judging by the Amityville rip off poster for the Eden Valley water Project at the top of this film, he really wishes he could have done Jaws IV too. Instead he's helming the slow moving bore, "Rattled".This snake fright film is bogged down by a LOT of family drama about Paul (William Katt) and his new wife Krista (the delightful Shanna Reed) and how Krista's kids Michelle (hotty Monica Creel) and Adam (annoying Michael Galeota) are dealing with having a new man in their family. Paul is the designer of the Eden Valley water Project where they're building a lake community by blowing up some hillside, not knowing the hills are alive with the sound of slithering.Kids are in jeopardy, workmen are in jeopardy, more kids in jeopardy, hotties in jeopardy...who will live? Who will die? Who will care? Not me, and not you.

Rattled was a very fine film. It had suspense and very fine performances, Shanna Reed looked extremely beautiful, the same did Monica Creel, Katt also delivered a fine performance.Every scene with the snakes was extremely well made and at times really terrifying. Nice scenery and fine background music also contributed to the success.This was one the finest, scariest and enjoyable films I`ve seen.