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In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter.
Casts

Harry Hamlin
Vic Rondelli

Shannon Sturges
Mandy Stratford

David Spielberg
Mayor Parker

Patty McCormack
Vera Conrad

Beau Billingslea
George Mitchell

Phillip Troy Linger
Dr. Matthew Watkins

Jack Scalia
Max Farrington

David Whitney
Ken

David Webb
Sheriff Howell

Carolyn Bock
Anita Young

Beth Champion
Karen
Sandra Belles
Lauren Holden
Kirsty Boden
Tammy Holden
Darce Florio
Anita's Friend

Paul Tassone
Stranded Motorist
Nathalie Roy
Lacey
Mark Fairall
Jack Kelly

Dominic Purcell
Truck Driver
Amanda Dettrick
Mrs. Parker
Antonia Murphy
Olivia Porter
Katy Charles
Victim's Wife
Daniel Murphy
Jake
Tom Betts
Little League Father
Marc Arena
Kirk
Michael Langdon
Lance Parker
John Walkin
Umpire
Crews

John Carpenter
Teleplay
Noel Nosseck
Director
William S. Gilmore
Teleplay
Michael Tavera
Original Music Composer
Fred Brown
Story
Patricia Arrigoni
Story
Susan Glicksman
Casting
Fern Orenstein
Casting
Graham Purcell
Costume Design
William S. Gilmore
Co-Executive Producer
H. Daniel Whitman
Co-Executive Producer
Jon Dowding
Production Design

Frank von Zerneck
Executive Producer
Tod Feuerman
Editor
Richard D. Arredondo
Producer

John Stokes
Director of Photography
Matt Dorff
Teleplay
Randy Sutter
Producer

Robert M. Sertner
Executive Producer
Peter Sadowski
Associate Producer
Leslie Lipton
Co-Producer
Ted Babcock
Co-Producer
Erik Storey
Co-Producer
Paul Hurrell
Set Decoration
Backdrops & Posters
