Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Jennifer is a teenager from West Virginia who works with her Bible-quotin' papa in his pet store and attends an elite all-girl boarding school on scholarship (the rich, pampered girls call her "skag" and "hayseed"). When the leader of the popular clique gets caught cheating on a test, she blames innocent Jennifer, who defends herself but gets into trouble anyway. These kids--and the pill-popping, money-grubbing school matriarch--really have in for Jennifer, unaware that as a child she performed in tent-revival meetings as the girl who could communicate with snakes and make them do her bidding. Screenwriter Kay Cousins Johnson, working from a story by Steve Krantz (who also produced), is responsible for this shameless repeat of "Carrie"--and not even an effective one, as telekinesis is a far more showy display of psychic power than having snakes slithering along the pavement or on the hood of a car. With a handful of TV-movies already mining the "Carrie" vault ("The Spell", "The Initiation of Sarah"), a theatrical retread of the same scenario seemed like a backwards step, and audiences stayed away. Lisa Pelikan has the lead (she was the young Vanessa Redgrave in "Julia" the year before); she has beautiful red hair and green eyes, but no screen presence. She's asked to stand-in for Sissy Spacek, though she looks much more like a teen-version of Piper Laurie in her high-necked white nightgown. Mild "product" from AIP at least gave work to several veteran actors, including Bert Convy, Jeff Corey, Nina Foch and John Gavin. * from ****

Anyone who knows anything about horror will have no trouble identifying Jennifer's main influence - it is, of course, Brian De Palma's Stephen King adaptation Carrie. The two share so much in common that I can't quite believe that director Brice Mack actually got away with making this film. It's not just the central premise either, things are ripped directly from Carrie wholesale; stuff like the overbearing religious single parent, the popular clique that takes a dislike to the outcast protagonist and the sensitive member of said clique that has a bit of sympathy for the outcast. The central character is, unsurprisingly, named Jennifer. Jennifer is a scholarship student at a relatively wealthy school and as such gets picked on for not having as much money as the other girls. She takes it for a while but soon the bullying is stepped up a gear and Jennifer decides that she just can't take it anymore. Luckily for her, however, she can wield a strange power over snakes and decides to use it to get her revenge.While the film is clearly a knockoff, it does have to be said that in its own right, it's actually a decent horror movie. Don't go into it expecting to be thrilled because it's very much of the slow burn variety, although it does manage to put forward some interesting characters. It's clear that it was shot on a low budget, however, and while the acting is largely decent; certain cast members are just terrible. Jeff Corey stands out in that respect as Jennifer's overbearing religious father. The central premise centres on snakes and as such you would expect the movie to feature a few of them; but actually they don't turn up properly until right near the end which is a bit of a shame. I'd have liked to have seen a bit more of a relationship between the lead character and the snakes. Jennifer is also not even nearly as big an outcast as Carrie was; she's just not weird enough and her reaction to the bullying even seems a bit extreme. Still, I wasn't particularly expecting anything great from this film and going in with expectations like that will ensure you wont be disappointed.

I have this movie from when I taped it on non-cable television a couple of years ago. I wonder were a lot of parts cut out that I may have missed to get the full picture of the movie. Anyway, I did get the meaning of the movie. This movie was okay/average enough to watch, but kind of boring. Instead of Telekinetic powers (Carrie had), it's snake powers. My rating of this movie is 6.5 stars out of 10 stars.

I only saw the last half-hour of this film. I have been looking all over the four corners of the earth and finally found it available for order on the internet. When I see the whole thing, I'll make additional comments. I'm tired of maudlin films with reprehensible characters who get killed or suffer misfortune, only to have the other characters weeping or remorseful over the misfortune that character deserved to get. But that's not the case with Jennifer. It is uncompromising and doesn't pull any punches when exacting revenge on many of the film's vicious characters. Some of you have criticized the effects, but be understanding that without today's digital and computer effects, they were limited in what they could do. A good effort, with some reasonably well-known stars adding spice to the film.