'Fer-de-lance' or 'Snakes on a Submarine' is an unfairly neglected TV-chiller, often misguidedly pooh-poohed by glib Interweb philistines, this barnacle-tight 70s subaquatic shocker is kept excitingly afloat by the ballast of its above average cast of fine actors, including the delightful Hope Lange, ruggedly handsome Jason Evers, and authoritatively headed by the ridiculously suave and wholly likeable David Janssen as capable naval officer Russ Bogan. For reasons nonsensical, cretinous submariner Compton (Frank Bonner)foolhardily sneaks a bag of lethal snakes onboard, and before you can say 'Darwin Awards Winner' said submersible vessel is deleteriously riddled with venomous, silently striking reptiles! And for additional B-Movie bathos, the stalwart science vessel 'Fer-de-lance' disastrously finds itself perilously scuppered on a precarious rock shelf 1000 ft below the surface!
Avid TV movie-loving fans won't be able to submerge their icy terror as the luckless crew plummet ever closer to their abysmal watery doom! The intense pressures finally reaching fever pitch as these terminally toxic, sinisterly slithering stowaways start to make their poisonous presence felt! The claustrophobically creepy 'Fer-de-lance' remains a buoyant B-Movie with a fang-tastic, fear-flicked premise, a squirmingly good score by the gifted composer Dominique Frontiere, and beloved TV icon David Janssen is just the man to stamp out these ferociously fanged fugitives! And the more obsessive B-Movie fans might be interested to know that snake smuggling simpleton Frank Bonner also starred in cult psychotronic freakshow 'Equinox'.
Avid TV movie-loving fans won't be able to submerge their icy terror as the luckless crew plummet ever closer to their abysmal watery doom! The intense pressures finally reaching fever pitch as these terminally toxic, sinisterly slithering stowaways start to make their poisonous presence felt! The claustrophobically creepy 'Fer-de-lance' remains a buoyant B-Movie with a fang-tastic, fear-flicked premise, a squirmingly good score by the gifted composer Dominique Frontiere, and beloved TV icon David Janssen is just the man to stamp out these ferociously fanged fugitives! And the more obsessive B-Movie fans might be interested to know that snake smuggling simpleton Frank Bonner also starred in cult psychotronic freakshow 'Equinox'.