Sssnake cobra
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sssnake cobra |
| Original title | SSSSSSS |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernard L. Kowalski |
| script |
Hal Dresner Daniel C. Striepeke |
| production | Daniel Spriepeke |
| music | Patrick Williams |
| camera | Gerald Perry Finnerman |
| cut | Robert Watts |
| occupation | |
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Sssnake Kobra (Original title: Sssssss ) is an American horror film from 1973 with Dirk Benedict in the lead role. The film was nominated for the " Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film ".
action
College student David Blake takes an assistantship with ophiologist Dr. Carl Stoner on. Stoner's previous assistant disappeared without a trace, but the scientist explains his absence with family obligations. Little does David know that the highly psychopathic scientist has found a way to turn people into reptiles.
After David was bitten by a laboratory cobra, Stoner injects him with his serum under the prescription of an antidote, whereupon David's skin begins to change like a snake. David falls in love with Stoner's daughter Kristina, who is warned by her father not to enter into a sexual relationship with him.
When visiting a carnival show, Kristina recognizes to her horror in the main attraction, the "snake man", her father's missing ex-assistant. She wants to save David, whose transformation into a cobra has meanwhile been completed. Stoner falls victim to his laboratory cobra, which is then shot by the arriving police. In the laboratory, Kristina meets David, who is being attacked by a mongoose . In the middle of the rescue attempt, the film breaks off and leaves the viewer in the dark about the fate of the protagonists.
criticism
"Scary film that, regardless of its intention to critically denounce the feasibility of all things and conditions, loses itself in nonsense and is only moderately exciting despite acoustic effects."
background
The film was produced with a budget of 1.3 million US dollars by Universal Pictures and was released in theaters in Germany on September 30, 1976; in the USA he formed a horror double feature with The Boy Who Cried Werewolf .
During the filming, five king cobras imported from Thailand were used without pulling their fangs. The film represents the film debut of the actor Reb Brown .
Web links
- Sssssss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sssnake Cobra. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .