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Author	Topic: Michael Kamen's VENOM

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I have a tape of some of the suspense music, but have never run across the BEAUTIFUL main title theme Kamen wrote for this dopey snake-on-the-loose thriller, released in 1982. Last time I even heard the theme was on a cable broadcast in a hotel in Bangkok almost TWELVE YEARS AGO (insert I'm-so-blue face here.) The guy who made me the copy said (and I'm sure it's true, this is a very "connected" character) that Kamen himself made the tape just for him. "So why didn't he put the main title on it?" "Maybe he didn't write it!" the guy cackled. I doubt it though, it's a typical Kamen melody, and I wish to hell I could find a copy of it. I may have to find the video and tape it off that! (I'd have done that already, actually, but VENOM was long missing from my local video stores when I made that decision. I kept assuming there'd be a score release. Foolish kid that I was.) So does anyone know how to find this? NP: not VENOM, dammit P.S. I was inspired to create this thread by Jeron's thread about Williams' THE RIVER love theme sounding like Kamen. I can't remember THE RIVER except for not liking most of it. I kind of doubt THE RIVER was temped with anything by Kamen though, not in 1984. [Message edited by H Rocco on 10-19-2000]
posted 10-19-2000 01:05 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Bangkok almost 12 years ago? I was there just over 11 years ago, now wouldn't that be weird your H' if somehow we'd passed each other by without ever knowing? I saw the film Venom once many many years ago, but I can barely rememberr it....did it have Susan George in it? NP : Big Country....just finishing.
posted 10-19-2000 06:11 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	We wouldn't have sat by each other on that tour bus, now would we? But there were TWO Englishmen on that bus (traveling together). I even remember my thumbnail notes about them. One had been to Transylvania several times, which I thought amusing, since he looked EXACTLY like "Tomb of Dracula" scribe Marv Wolfman. And when it comes down to it, 'chanter -- Patpong, it is so vast ... But I wound up going to Koh Samet, not Koh Samui. (or is it the other way around? I always mix them up.) [Message edited by H Rocco on 10-19-2000]
posted 10-19-2000 06:20 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Marv Wolfman if I remember right was 'bearded'?, I've always kept myself cleanshaven! I was definately on Koh Samui not Koh Samet. Didja have t'mention Pat Pong?.....goldfish,balloons,cigarettes and razor blades.....like a quote in 8mm 'some things you see...you can't un-see I was a good boy......I was with my girlfriend.....putting her eyes back in her sockets took some doing though [Message edited by Timmer on 10-19-2000]
posted 10-19-2000 07:15 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	"can't unsee," indeed ... I've never taken a girlfriend to Thailand, and perhaps was wiser not to ... well, who knows ... I went to Koh Samet once and didn't like it. Much preferred the nearby Pattaya, although the beach wasn't the best. I got some great pictures of an elephant that came out of nowhere to stroll down the avenue.
posted 10-19-2000 07:23 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	Yes, Venom is the classic film I watched a Ft. Riley on Showtime in the early '80s while on one of my many tours there. It starred Susan G., Sterling Hayden, Oliver Reed and the German guy that plays villains all the time. The snake only kills the villains in the film. In the scene at the end when the room is full of villains and good guys the snake crawls around room and only bites those that are evil. I wonder how he knew? The scene when the fellow is trying to shoot the snake hanging all over him and he goes out on the balcony is funny. The police think he is shooting at them, so they riddle him with 300 bullets. Great film. JW.
posted 10-21-2000 08:32 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	"Susan G." is Susan George (not EVERYBODY remembers her, y'know! ). Klaus Kinski was the main villain. Nicol Williamson is in it too, as the chief inspector. I still remember a review which read, "Williamson looks either as if he's drunk, or desperately wishes that he were." My favorite snake murder was the one where it crawls up Oliver Reed's trouser leg. Actually a rather good cast for this kind of thing. I always thought Susan George to be not a great actress, but more competent than her reputation would suggest. ("What name actress can we get to go naked for cheap?" "Well, there's that babe from STRAW DOGS, she takes it off in EVERY flick.") And a great, largely forgotten main (and end) title.
posted 10-22-2000 09:28 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	How true on Susan. Remember the film she was in called Sudden Terror or something like that? Really bad. The villain is sticking a long needle in behind people's ears up into the brain. He tries to kill her and Mark Lester by ramming a bus off the hill at the end. Really stupid. Best, John.
posted 10-25-2000 05:17 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Poor old Susan George. Last time I remember seeing her was in an excruciating nude scene with Kevin McClure (!!!!!!) in the hysterically violent pseudo-Japanese horror movie THE HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS.
posted 10-27-2000 11:35 AM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Kevin McClure?......Son of Doug?!
posted 10-27-2000 05:34 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	whooooops, I meant Doug McClure ... I originally almost typed "TROY McClure" and then remembered that was the SIMPSONS character ... NP: "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (a rerun, dammit, and in this election season no less!)
posted 10-27-2000 10:07 PM PT (US)

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