Snake Creek, Bigger and Toothier than an Anaconda

The Chattahoochee River in Tennessee is the setting for a vicious one featuring a serpent that is 29 feet long and very toothy.  It's venom is deadly, and does not like tourists.  Our feature today is sort of a mesh between "Deliverance" and "Anaconda."  When city boys wearing tube socks and sandals go canoeing in the Tennessee wilderness, bad things are bound to happen.  Let us look at 2025's "Snake Creek," directed by Charlie Steeds.

Our four city boys are kind of annoying but nice enough. Bill (Adam Bash) has the makings of a final-guy. Sadly, the only babe in this one is eaten early on.  He annoys his buddies, Patrick (Paul Ogletree), Kevin (Lukas John), and James (Tristan Green). The four of them annoy the creepy general store crossbred, Woody (Scot Scurlock). This will be unfortunate for the city boys as Woody seems to have control over a 29 foot serpent, which we will get the backstory on. Willow (Faith McCoy), a city babe is hunted down and eaten by the serpent...sad. Now after an unproductive episode with Woody, the four tube sock gents will be hunted.  Along comes the big snake.  As the quartet, in two canoes, paddle down the Chattahoochee, the thing attacks.

James is dragged away and dissolved by acidic venom, but Kevin merely has his face bitten.  Now Bill and Patrick have to contend with a dying friend as their canoes are lost in the river.  The snake is mean and has all the advantages against the sandal clad city slickers.  Woody and his brothers grab machetes and other bladed weapons and also hit the wilderness to dissect the strangers.  Woody proves to be a maven at torture and dismemberment, and the snake is aggressive and hungry.  One wonders if this film will have a Ned Beatty squealing type scene, but happily, it will not. The monster is brilliant!  No CGI or AI...a rubber thing with big teeth played very well by the f/x guys.  

Will any of the city slickers survive?  Could this film have benefitted if instead of guys in tube socks, we got babes in bikinis? Okay, dumb question. Should more monster movies bring back rubber puppets and shelve the CGI?  This is a good one and because the monster is so cool, this is a very enjoyable horror film.  Treat yourself to the best monster snake film of the decade and see "Snake Creek."