Terror Serpent
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German title | Terror Serpent |
Original title | Terror Serpent |
Country of production | Hong Kong |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1988 |
length | 86 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 18 |
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Director | Godfrey Ho |
script | George Chu |
production |
Betty Chan Joseph Lai |
music | Stephen Tsang |
camera | Raymond Chang |
cut | Homer Kwong |
occupation | |
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Terror Serpent (also known as: Thunder of Gigantic Serpent ) is a low-budget horror film directed by Godfrey Ho from 1988 . The film was released on video in Germany in April 1988.
action
In Laboratory 707 at a research base in Hong Kong, the formula K19 is being developed, with which animals and plants can be enlarged by 300 to 1000 times. This formula is designed to help solve the world's nutritional problems. But shortly afterwards the laboratory is attacked by terrorists. Their leader Solomon wants to usurp the formula to gain control of world food. Some of the scientists under Dr. T try to escape with the formula, and a wild chase ensues. In the end, the last surviving scientist, Lin, fakes her death by first throwing the box with the formula and then throwing herself out of the car. Shortly afterwards it shattered on a cliff.
After Lin is found in the hospital by Inspector Seth Shaw despite the wrong name, she later tells him about her connection to Solomon. Her parents died five years earlier and he helped her by promising her the laboratory position. For this she was to steal the formula after it was completed and give it to him. Meanwhile, the mercenary Ted Fast is busy finding the formula and returning it to the military.
The investigation leads both Seth and the military in charge of the research to the family of the little girl Ting-Ting. She had previously discovered the missing box with the formula and accidentally tested it on her intelligent Mosler snake, which has been growing strongly since then. When Ting-Ting tried to dispose of the box, the terrorists discovered her, who followed her to her house. Meanwhile, her parents find Mosler and try to kill her, but the animal escapes through the open garage door. The terrorists try to kill them with an electric trap, but the electric shocks only make them grow.
The terrorists kidnap Ting-Ting, which immediately arouses Mosler's protective instincts. When looking for her human friend, however, in her anger she destroys a dam and bridge. A state of emergency is declared and the city is evacuated. Meanwhile, Ted Fast catches Solomon's henchman Jackson and learns from him where Solomon's right hand Billy is with his hostage Ting-Ting. Seth immediately becomes active and drives to his whereabouts in the Starlight Hotel. But Mosler is already there and attacks the building, which is then shot at by fighter planes. Seth manages to defeat Billy and free Ting-Ting, but Mosler dies to the horror of the girl from a kamikaze deployment of one of the fighter jets. In a final showdown between Solomon and Ted, he defeats the leader of the terrorists.
Trivia
- The film was shot by Godfrey Ho using a cut and paste method. H. Most of the film consists of recordings from another already existing film, and has been changed in the sense of a new synchronization and expanded with newly shot scenes
- Film A, from which the original recordings are taken, is King of Snake ( 大 蛇王 , Cantonese Daai se wong ) from 1982
criticism
“Naive horror movie; Trick-wise unimaginative, designed hair-raising and enriched with unnecessary brutality. "
“Terror Serpent by Godfrey Ho is sci-fi animal trash made in Hong Kong. All the effects and the giant snake are of the worst kind, the actors are anything but good, the German dubbing is super lousy and the plot to run away. The result is an involuntarily comical film if you can laugh at such effects. This film is actually only for die-hard trash fans. "
Web links
- Terror Serpent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Terror Serpent in the online movie database
- The Cinema Snob: Pierre Kirby Week Video Review of Terror Serpent
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terror Serpent. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Terror Serpent. (No longer available online.) In: die-besten-Horrorfilme.de. Archived from the original on May 1, 2015 ; Retrieved October 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.