One of the gruesome killings involves a rattlesnake. The entire scene is a man's nightmare, not a real event, and nightmare's aren't usually realistic, which is good to know since the way the snake is used is pretty ridiculous. It's probably the most horrible murder we see - most of the victims are stabbed, but this one is tortured.

Adrian brings his camera gear and a young female model named Toni (Debbie Zipp) into the woods to shoot a commercial for a trash bag company. When he tells her to open one of the bags then slowly look deep inside the bag, she protests, saying "Whoever heard of a dumb housewife putting her head in a trash bag? But she does it anyway, for the money. When her head is in the bag, Adrian opens a briefcase and takes a rattlesnake out with his hand. He puts the snake in a trash bag then puts the bag over Toni's head and ties it off so she can't remove it. We see Toni struggling and running around screaming as we hear loud dramatic orchestral music and rattlesnake rattling sounds and see Adrian taking pictures of her. Finally Toni drops dead on the ground. Then we see Adrian wake up sweating and panicked and find out that it was one of his bad dreams.

The snakebite scene was only a nightmare, but later we see that Toni was actually killed in real life the same way. We see the police pull a garbage bag off of Toni's head to reveal bite marks on her face and a dead rattlesnake.

It's possible that a rattlesnake put in a trash bag over someone's head could bite and kill the person, but it's also likely the snake would try to get out of the bag instead of attacking. Even if the snake did bite, the victim would certainly not die as quickly as we saw.

The first time we see the snake in the briefcase, it's a Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake. The snake we see picked up by a human hand is a different snake, probably a non-venomous species such as a gopher snake or rat snake.


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