thesar-2 Not much to write about, but sssuffice to sssay its sssecond half is where the venom ssstrikes.Sssssss is just another When-Animals-Attack/Mad-Scientist-Goes-Green films from the 70s. It's not necessarily bad, at least for the first three quarters, but then the movie literally falls apart when someone reminded the writer this was supposed to be a horror movie.College snake expert slowly turns assistant into a "man-snake" (?) because man-men are destroying the planet. Eh, throw in a love story and funding problems, and you have a too-long film.If you like the subgenre as mentioned above, like I do, it's harmlessssssssss.***Final thoughts: Day 18 Movie in the Can! I'm watching a NEW-2-ME horror movie every day of October 2016 and this one was mentioned many times on a horror podcast I listened to. I previously saw like the last 20 minutes on TV once and thought I'd see what all the fussssss was about. (Ok, I'm done.)

gavin6942 A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.This film is far from perfect. It could use a few more horror or science fiction elements, perhaps. Where it excels is with the use of real snakes and the knowledge that the professor has. I am not a herpetologist, and would not claim to be any sort of snake expert. But when the professor is explaining different things about snakes, it sounds very real, like he really knows what he's doing. So, well done on the script.The premise is a bit silly, but not overly so. This seems like the sort of thing that might be in a 1950s movie rather than a 1970s film from Universal. Director Bernard Kowalski (1929-2007), perhaps not surprisingly, is a veteran of such Roger Corman-produced films as "Night of the Blood Beast" and "Attack of the Giant Leeches". (Kowalski was director on both, but you can imagine that Corman had his fingers in the pie.)

Uriah43 "Dr. Carl Stoner" (Strother Martin) is a herpetologist who is working on a special serum and needs funding from the nearby university to continue. Unfortunately, due to the lack of funds available he decides to take a serious shortcut and begins to experiment on humans. When one of his lab assistants supposedly quits he finds a new one named "David Blake" (Dirk Benedict) who seems more than eager to help the kindly doctor as much as possible. Also helping out is Dr. Stoner's daughter, "Kristina Stoner" (Heather Menzies) who seems to take a liking to David almost from the very beginning. Now, rather than reveal any more of the movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that even though there were some scenes which were a bit creepy there were also other scenes that I thought were a little dull and predictable. Along with that, although I liked all three of the actors I just mentioned, I thought the overall plot was kind of silly and towards the end I found it rather difficult to watch without shaking my head in disappointment. Obviously, others may disagree but even so I rate the movie as below average.

kclipper Wonderfully photographed and directed with a very clever attention to detail and realism, this killer-snake thriller is highlighted by the on-camera dangerous handling of venomous reptiles such as black mambas, king cobras...etc, but ultimately it becomes a mess due to its ridiculous and disappointing climax and conclusion.Strother Martin is good as Dr. Carl Stoner (who is quite likable at first), a mad scientist who recruits inquiring student, Dirk Benedict to act as a human guinea pig for his radical experiments dealing with snake venom in turning the human race into super-evolved, intelligent reptiles. With the help of naive daughter, Heather Menzies, who eventually falls for her obsessed daddy's lab-rat, Dr. Stoner plans on making poor Dirk the first of the species. The characters are likable (including some of the snakes), the stylish Patrick Williams piano music adds suspense, and scenes involving the slithering serpents are brilliant. (Including real snake-bites and venom extractions), and there's a suspenseful revenge subplot involving a cocky jock and a vicious black mamba. This begins to fall apart when Dirk starts turning into the creepy-looking "snake-man", and Dr. Stoner's actions and intentions become incredibility vague and unreasonable. The well-developed relationships between the characters are sadly thwarted, and there is a most nonsensical scene where a python swallows an entire man. This is worth seeing especially for reptile enthusiasts, and it fits prominently in with the rest of the "natures' killer animals" genre flicks of the 1970s. All in all, this little film definitely does have some "bite".