Venom (1982, GBR) C-93m. **½ D: Piers Haggard. Starring Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Cornelia Sharpe, Lance Holcomb, Susan George, Michael Gough. Kinski and Reed's kidnapping plan goes seriously awry when they find themselves trapped in their victims' house, with not only the police waiting outside, but also a deadly mamba on the prowl upstairs. Not-bad thriller, quite well-directed by veteran Haggard, but also none too clever, with standard plotting and characterizations. Based on the novel by Alan Scholefield. Score by Michael Kamen.