Harry had a bad heart to begin with. It was mentioned that he had a stroke "in '02". This could have hastened the effects of the venom. But Harry was still alive when everyone got the scene, so the venom didn't kill him, it just weakened him. The doctor killed him with the injection he gave him to "let go of the pain."
However, unless the doctor mixed the venom with some other poison, this scene wasn't realistic b/c venom has to be introduced directly into either the blood stream or body tissue for it to be effective.
So unless Harry had open cuts all over his hands, the venom alone wouldn't have done anything realistically.
I wish they had said what kind of snake it was b/c the Asian Keelback snake is one of two snakes known to ooze poisonous fluid from their glands, which irritate airways and affect heart muscle. This is b/c they eat poisonous toads and adapt to the poison. But once again, it wouldn't be the venom but the toad poison in the gland of the snake's neck.
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dacaria-1
13 years ago
Just finished watching it again on Lifetime Movie Network, it looks like the doctor injected his victims with Rattlesnake venom to kill them. So, not sure if it was venom he used on the steering wheel.
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Anniston
13 years ago
They did show him paint the wheel with the venom.
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dacaria-1
13 years ago
They did show him paint the wheel with the venom.
Well if it was only venom he painted on the wheel then this a flaw in the movie as snake venom can't be absorbed through the skin. So simply rubbing his hands on the wheels wouldn't be enough to cause a reaction.
Now if the doc had taped a needle laced with venom on the steering wheel, then this would have been more plausible as the venom would have gone directly into Harry's bloodstream.
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Anniston
13 years ago
Oh, I know that it wouldn't work as it did in real life. The movie took a lot of liberties from the true story.
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lucy_122
11 years ago
if u watch the movie again, u will see that after driving a while, the old man sticks his fingers in his mouth and picks his teeth, so obviously the venom on his fingers from the steering wheel, got in his mouth and he swallowed some.
I can handle dead people, u kill a dog, i go crazy
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