Медянка – Russian title
La Maldicion de las Serpientes –
Spanish title
Copperhead – English title
A 2007 U.S.A., Bulgarian
television co-production [UFO, Universal TV (Hollywood)]
Producers: Jeffrey Beach, Phillip
J. Roth (Phillip Joseph Roth)
Director: Todor Chapkanov
Story: Rafael Jordan (Rafael
Pujols)
Teleplay: Rafael Jordan (Rafael
Pujols)
Photography: Lorenzo Senatore
[color]
Music: Nathan Furst (Nathaniel
Feuerstein)
Running time: 90 minutes
Cast:
Jesse Evans - Billy Drago (Billy
Burrows)
‘Wild Bill’ Longley - Brad Johnson
Jane - Wendy Carter
Sheriff Mercer - Todd Jensen
Ponciano ‘Ponce’ Dominguez -
George Zlatarev (Giorgi Zlatarev)
Will Bonney - Keith Stone (Keith
Scaduto)
Henry - Nathan Bautista
Tannen - Nick Harvey
Girl - Sofia Leticia Morales
Roscoe Burrell - Gabriel Womack
Garrett - Brad Greenquist
Josiah - Atanas Srebrev
Darla - Violeta Markovska
Miss Murphy - Marta Kondova
Child - Kalina Green
“Wild” Bill Longley rides into
town talking about settling a score with an outlaw Jesse Evans. He also brings
with him a warning that this tiny community is in the path of an approaching
swarm of killer snakes that have been cutting a swath of death across the
desert. Evans and his gang hold “Wild” Bill at gunpoint in the town’s saloon.
The unconvinced outlaw makes a deal that if the snakes arrive by high noon
he’ll let “Wild” Bill ride out of town; otherwise, they’re going to settle
things with a high noon gunfight.
Evans exits the film a third of
the way through and not in a way you’d expect his character to depart the film.
From then on, once the snakes arrive, what had played like a fairly straight
forward western develops a campy Tremors riff with “Wild” Bill and a small
ragtag contingent of townsfolk including the sheriff, some local businessmen,
harlots, gunslingers, and a couple of leftover outlaws having to make a stand
against the slithering horde. This will involve dynamite, Civil War era
flamethrowers, and a Gatling gun that fires so pitifully slow they’d have been
better off sticking with handguns. And because this is a Sci-Fi Channel snake
movie you just know there has to be a really big one lurking about somewhere.
“Copperhead” was a made for
television western filmed in Bulgaria by director Todor Chapkanov it starred
American actors Brad Johnson and Billy Drago, Wendy Carter. The balance of the
remaining actors were East European. Bulgaria and Romania have become the new
European countries for filming westerns because of its cheap labor pool and
production costs.
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