With a distinctive and risky title like "Sssssss", this proved to be a surprisingly effective shocker about an unethical doctor(Strother Martin) who devises a serum that can turn people into king cobras(really), which he already has tried once unsuccessfully on a former assistant, but will now try again on another(Dirk Benedict). Heather Menzies plays his sheltered daughter, who falls in love , but it all leads to tragedy...
Good direction by Bernard Kowalski, and well-written script(story in itself is nothing new, but that doesn't matter) and impressive use of real snakes make this quite memorable, with a truly downbeat ending that will be hard for the viewer to forget...
Good direction by Bernard Kowalski, and well-written script(story in itself is nothing new, but that doesn't matter) and impressive use of real snakes make this quite memorable, with a truly downbeat ending that will be hard for the viewer to forget...