Review of Sssssss

Sssssss (1973)
5/10
Decent film, but highly inaccurate
2 May 2018
If you don't want to hear me ramble on about herpetology, you can go ahead and stop reading. The film has a title card in the beginning that explains "All reptiles in the film are real". Well yes they are, but apart from the King Cobra, the snakes are all mislabeled. Now, obviously this was done to protect the actors from being bitten by venomous snakes on the set, but for someone like me who takes it seriously, it's really irritating. With all that aside though, the film has a pretty ridiculous plot, some crazy dude wants to turn people into snakes. Yes, into snakes. The movie would be more watchable if he was trying to turn them into say, half reptilian humanoids, but no, this guy wants them to actually become snakes, identical to the ones he has in his lab. Now that's just weird. I won't lie, when the guy who was only "half snake" was found at the circus show, his obvious state of pain and misery was really heart renching. Decent acting, decent movie, but could use some work.
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