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The snake woman
The biggest applause goes to those who designed the frightening poster,
with a snake dominating a woman figure and a long series of frightening
tag-lines, of which "serpent-girl terrorizes town!" it's my favourite.
A horrible monster, it would be said, that threatens the world or the
community in which it rages and will be gigantic, ruthless. Implacable.
But no. We are far from all this. The monster of this film, that is the
"Snake Woman" is a cute, well-groomed and dressed in jungle tribe style
version “I go to dinner in an elegant restaurant”. And
already this description of Susan Travers, the actress who plays the
protagonist, makes it clear that there is very little fear and very
little to be afraid of. Added to this is an almost literal, long-winded
and slow narration.
Probably with the intention of following the path of Hammer, Caralan
Productions Ltd, a small British production company threw itself into
horror in the sixties, but with somewhat questionable results and
according to the IMDB Rate, this seems the film worse in the short (it
seems) life of this company.
A b movie, very low budget which, however, has Orville H. Hampton who
writes the original script a few years before the nomination at the
Oscar (for best screenplay) for "One Potato, Two Potato". The director
is Sidney J. Furie, director who has worked with big names of the
cinema (Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra Peter O'Toole etc.etc.), Won a
BAFTA for "Ipcress" film that launched Micheal Caine’s career .
Probably the two take a dose of snake poison, because otherwise it is
not explained why they create a film so bad as to be an excellent b
movie. Snake venom not mentioned at random (I know, I am a brilliant
writer), because it is the same thing that a doctor gives, at the end
of the nineteenth century, to his wife to cure her for an unspecified
mental illness. The woman is also pregnant and when she gives birth her
midwife, screams to the four winds that a monstrous woman-snake hybrid
is born. As in the best horror traditions, the people rise up and burn
the doctor's house, killing everyone with the exception of the baby,
saved by a shepherd who loves playing badly the flute to his sheep.
Several years later (between twenty and thirty) in this small village
in the north of Great Britain strange murders occur in the style of
"snake bite". Thus, Scotland Yard sends a young inspector to
investigate the facts. Everything suggests the legendary figure of the
"snake woman" and the inspector between the fascinated and the
frightened has to do with this beautiful girl who has nothing about the
snake.
All so boring, obvious and badly made to become a must see.
