Canadian director Sidney J. Furie had a prolific but incongruent career, going from B movies to big productions, from a Billie Holiday biopic to a Superman movie, with a few high praised titles as «During One Night,» «The Leather Boys,» and «The Ipcress File,» before falling from grace in the mid-1980s. In his early days in the United Kingdom, Furie made two low-budget horror movies, that have a cult following, «Doctor Blood's Coffin» and this one, a not very good tale about the supernatural. Most of the cast is awful (including leading man John McCarthy and Elsie Wagstaff as the town witch), and the snake thing is blandly treated and disappointing. A better option is Hammer's «The Reptile,» directed by John Gilling, and starring Jacqueline Pearce as the snake girl.
Review of The Snake Woman
