Snakes Used as a Weapon in Movies
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In these films, snakes or their venom are intentionally used as weapons to guard a space or to attack, punish, threaten, or kill someone, including when they are used as a weapon against oneself in suicide.
In these films, snakes or their venom are intentionally used as weapons to guard a space or to attack, punish, threaten, or kill someone, including when they are used as a weapon against oneself in suicide.
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- DirectorWilliam GreféStarsChris RobinsonAlex RoccoSteve AlaimoA young Seminole Indian uses his rattlesnake to take revenge on all those he believes have wronged him.Tim uses his pet rattlesnake Stanley to kill people.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsJack PalanceLaura GemserGabriele TintiEva comes to Hong Kong. Seeing Eva perform with a snake, Judas gets interested in her. He showers her with gifts. She moves in with him and his snakes. Things get grim.A guy who gets his kicks murdering women with venomous snakes is then eaten alive from the inside by a mutant snake that is put into his anus by his victim's lesbian lover. (Seriously)
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.A black mamba with venom so toxic it can kill someone in 20 minutes is hidden in a briefcase full of cash and bites the face of a poor slob who thought he was going to be rich. But that's not the worst thing that happens to him - as he lays paralyzed and dying, he is forced to listen to Daryl Hannah read a handwritten list of facts about the black mamba for what seems like the full 20 minutes.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJason RobardsStella StevensDavid WarnerA hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.A couple of bad guys jump in a big pit to shoot at him, so Cable Hogue throws some big rattlesnakes at them to force them out.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsTim RobbinsGreta ScacchiFred WardA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?A movie studio executive receives a rattlesnake post card then finds that someone put a real rattlesnake in his SUV to scare him and/or bite him.
- DirectorBrice MackStarsLisa PelikanBert ConvyNina FochOstracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!Jennifer was once a Christian snake handler with the mental power to control the snakes but gave it up until some of her evil rich elite girls school classmates kill her kitten. Then it's showtime as she conjures snakes out of nowhere to kill off her enemies.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineVictor McLaglenIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.Imprisoned in the dungeon of the Kali Temple, a stronghold of the Thuggee cult, a British officer is whipped then threatened with being thrown into a pit full of snakes. Later the head Thuggee guru throws himself into the pit to kill himself.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamHenry WilcoxonThe man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.Cleopatra uses a venomous snake to kill herself.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczRouben MamoulianStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonRex HarrisonQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.Cleopatra commits suicide by asp bite, but in this one she puts her hand in a basket containing figs and a snake.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsDouglas FairbanksJulanne JohnstonSnitz EdwardsA recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.The Mongol Prince has a staff with an orb that has a snake inside it that can poke its head out and bite someone. He uses it to kill a man in order to demonstrate how a magic golden apple can bring a dead man back to life.
- DirectorJack StarrettStarsPeter FondaWarren OatesLoretta SwitTwo couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.Two rattlesnakes are put in the cupboard of a motor home to kill its four occupants.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsWoody HarrelsonJuliette LewisTom SizemoreTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.A dead Navaho man somehow conjures up a field full of rattlesnakes to bite and kill the people who killed him. I think that's what happened. Hard to say for sure.
- DirectorChris ColumbusStarsLogan LermanKevin McKiddSteve CooganA teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.Uma Thurman is Medusa, a Gorgon who has live snakes growing out of her head instead of hair. Anybody who looks at Medusa directly turns to stone.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsRoger MooreLois ChilesMichael LonsdaleJames Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.Bond is thrown into a pool and forced to fight a gigantic python or die, as a bunch of beautiful women stand around practicing their evil smiles.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsMiles O'KeeffeLisa FosterDavid BrandonMuscle-bound Ator and his mute East Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the earth to save his aged mentor from the evil, mustachioed Zor.AKA "Cave Dwellers"
As a human sacrifice to the gods, several women are thrown down into a pit full of human skulls and hissing and growling snakes. - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartPeter UstinovAldo RayThree Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.In this "Christmas Comedy" starring Humphrey Bogart, three escaped convicts bring Adolph, a pet "deadly poisonous snake" in a wicker box intending to use it to kill tyrannical Cousin Andre. After Bogart decides against the plan Andre comes in and finds the box. He takes it, insisting on knowing what's inside it thinking they're trying to steal something from him, then he goes into a room to open it and slams the door. After a long comic delay as the three men slowly discuss which one of them should "rush in and warn him" Bogart finally goes in but comes out immediately. When asked why he didn't tell him, he says "He knows already." The snake is never actually seen in the film by us, but it is described as an Eastern Coral Snake.
- DirectorTed WildeHarold LloydLewis MilestoneStarsHarold LloydJobyna RalstonWalter JamesA sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.Harold Lloyd picks up a stick without looking at it to fight off a man who is trying to rape a young woman. Unknown to Lloyd, the stick has a gopher snake wrapped around it. He waves the stick threateningly and is surprised when the attacker runs away, believing it was his ferocity and not the snake that scared him away. Then Lloyd accidentally touches the snake, which terrifies him too. He throws the stick onto the ground and we see a snake crawl away.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsGlenn FordJack LemmonAnna KashfiAn idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.A cowboy on a cattle drive picks up a rattlesnake and brings it to scare Jack Lemmon, who runs away screaming. Another cowboy picks it up with a stick and throws it. It gets tossed back and forth until it finally wraps around the neck of a cowboy and bites him on the throat. It's an unintentional weapon, but deadly nonetheless.
- DirectorMario OrfiniStarsTrudie StylerGregg HenryBill MoseleyGene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Unable to win her back, he decides to take revenge by locking Eva in her new apartment, inside which he has released a deadly mamba snake.A man is so upset that his mate broke up with him that he puts a Black Mamba in her windowless loft and locks her inside, hoping the snake will kill her.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsStrother MartinDirk BenedictHeather Menzies-UrichA college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.A mad scientist and venom expert puts a Black Mamba snake in a shower a man is using to try to kill him. He also traps another man in a basement with a giant snake.
- DirectorAndrew DavisStarsShia LaBeoufSigourney WeaverJon VoightA wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.A boy wishing to harm himself takes off his shoe and sock and holds his foot in front of a rattlesnake so it will bite him.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeAud Egede-NissenGertrude WelckerArch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.Evil criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse extracts venom from a snake and uses it to poison a woman.
- DirectorCornel WildeStarsCornel WildeGert van den BerghKen GampuDuring the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.A cobra snake is thrown into a ring of burning wood with no exit except the place where a tied up man's face has been placed, forcing the snake to bite him in the face to escape.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsJan-Michael VincentKay LenzSlim PickensIn 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.Greedy corporate bosses try to kill an independent trucker by putting a rattlesnake in his truck.
- DirectorArt NamesStarsLes TremayneJanet WoodBebe KellyA lonely old man who loves snakes starts killing his friends and the townsfolk--using his poisonous snakes--after they turn their backs on him.An old snake collector kills off his enemies with venomous snakes.