Film Stats: Agnes Playing: Eden Year: 2005 Production Status: Released Directed By: Jim Gillespie Screenwriters: Jim Gillespie Genre: Horror / Thriller MPAA Rating: R Studio: Dimension Worldwide Box Office: $881,779 Credited Cast: ...Jonathan Jackson ...BiJou Phillips ...Megan Good ...Laura Ramsey Filming Locations: Choctaw, Louisiana, USA New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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After the town freak Ray Sawyer is killed in a freak accident involving voodoo related material, local teens' bodies soon start piling up. A few of the teens decide to visit a friends house in the swamps of Louisiana to find out if she knows what's going on, but they soon realize that Ray is possessed by evil spirits of murderers and evil souls and worser...Ray has found the teens and is armed with a crowbar. With only voodoo protecting them, the teens must survive his clutches or become his next victims...

Agnes played Eden in Venom. She has an on-again, off again relationship with the film's male lead and is in the midst of working nights and going to school so she can go to college. She dreams of leaving the small town she grew up in but is faced with a deadly situation and instead of a fight for her future she is now in a fight for her life. Agnes played a very different role here. While the film itself isn't nothing amazing nor awful, Agnes did a great job playing a female heroine. It's great to see her kickin some butt. If you are a fan of horror it's worth checking out for a new twist on the slasher type genre. There is blood, gore and a few awesome death scenes a plenty. All in all I think the film really stuck out (more or less was hidden) because it really felt it was made and released out of it's time. This would have very well been a cult hit if nothing else in the late ninties back when the likes of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer Ruled, now with the most recent releases like The Hills Have Eyes, Hostel, and The Saw series, audiences are much more hardcore. Maybe that is just another reason why people didn't like them film and then again it could just be another excuse to why it didn't live up to it's writer's predacessors.

Agnes plays Eden, the female lead. The movie had no status updated for nearly a year when two weeks before the scheduled release tv spots suddenly started airing. The movie is based on a story for a video game that BFG has in development. The film went through 3 name changes, it was originally entitled "Backwater" then switched to "The Reaper" and finally was stuck with "Venom" The film's director Jim Gillespie is no newbie to the horror field, he also directed I know what you did last summer and Joyride The film was hated by critics and viewers alike. The film was released on September 16, 2005. The film recieved bad criticism for being too campy after being released to soon after the devastation of Hurrican Katrina. (The film is set in Lousianna) Most theaters yanked the film after a short 2 week run. $881,779 was the final box office total.