Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

sol- Best known for his iconic performance in 'Cool Hand Luke', Strother Martin of "failure to communicate" fame is well cast here as a research scientist whose obsession with snakes may or may not be driving him insane. While he sounds levelheaded whenever he talks, there always seems to be something unusual and sinister about him and Martin excels in the role, although what makes 'Sssssss' an especially interesting is its lack of overt horror. It is only really in the final quarter of the movie that everything veers in a horror direction with the vast majority of the film providing a fascinating insight into the slithering reptiles with several intense moments in which real snakes are used and handled by the cast. With the way Martin's new assistant's skin begins to peel and slightly change colour after being inoculated for snake venom, it is perhaps a little easy to predict the direction in which the film is heading; Martin's agenda in regards to this is a tad lacking too. In general though, this is an oddly compelling film as Martin's affection for his snakes is well communicated and as the film toys around with just how mentally unstable he might be. There is some silly comic relief (a bimbo girlfriend) and a bizarre obligatory nude scene in which all private parts are covered-up by absurd foreground imagery. Overall though, this is a very decent venture into snake phobia territory.

Rainey Dawn It's not too bad of a film - for a B horror it's decent, kinda keeps me interested. Warning: If you have a huge fear of snakes then this film is NOT for you! They use real snakes in the making of this film.Dr. Stoner seems to have it in his head that snakes and humans become one they will rule the planet - outlasting plagues, viruses, natural disasters, holocausts, and other things of this nature. He slowly transforms humans into the snake/human crossbreeds.The ending could have been better: I mean David was, or looked like, a full-on King Cobra and not part human so why or how did Kristina know that snake was David? She couldn't even see his eyes because the mongoose was on the snake David. Otherwise it's a fairly decent 1970s B horror film that can entertain to a degree.6/10

buckikris I never heard of this film before, until about a year ago. It is an early 70's horror flick; and at the time I was 1 or 2 years old. I knew this movie would have mixed reviews; but at first I thought this would be a terrible movie. The movie starts out basically with teaching of a class on Reptiles. We have a young Dirk Benedict, who is looking for a job. He meets Dr. Stoner, a mad scientist and his daughter Kris( Heather Menendez). David(Benedict) is ready to get started; and Dr. Stoner shows him the ropes. David is unaware what Dr. Stoner has in store for him. He hears about the other assistant Tim from Kris and doesn't think anything of it. Dr. Stoner tells is Kris that Tim just quit and went back home. David then becomes Stoner's new Guiana Pig, Stoner starts giving him shots of Cobra Venom, telling David they are just booster shots for protection against the snakes. Dr. Stoner is really doing another experiment on a innocent student and trying to transform him into a snake. He as well as Kris are unaware of Stoner's intentions. During the movie David and Kris form a relationship that has stoner worried, she is wondering what is going on with her father's secrecy. While the movie proceeds, we have people that start to disappear, a death of student, who was responsible for killing one of Kris's snakes; and Kris finally learns what her father is up to. Toward the end Kris finally finds out what happened to Tim the other assistant. He ended up in a Carnival freak show as a hybrid 1/2 man 1/2 snake. Dr. Stoner's first experimentation was a failure. He is successful in transforming David; but Stoner end's up dead along with the Cobra he was training. Kris finds out David is transformed, and tells the officer's not to kill the snake. She knows it's David; and doesn't want to let go.I enjoyed this film, it is dated and the special effect are OK for the time period. I loved the story, because it has everything a little comedy, a decent plot, friendship, and tragedy. I also liked it because you don't see many snake horror movies and this one is truly unique. So don't let the title fool you, this movie will surprise you.THX, Kris L. CocKayne

Uriah43 "Dr. Carl Stoner" (Strother Martin) is a herpetologist who is working on a special serum and needs funding from the nearby university to continue. Unfortunately, due to the lack of funds available he decides to take a serious shortcut and begins to experiment on humans. When one of his lab assistants supposedly quits he finds a new one named "David Blake" (Dirk Benedict) who seems more than eager to help the kindly doctor as much as possible. Also helping out is Dr. Stoner's daughter, "Kristina Stoner" (Heather Menzies) who seems to take a liking to David almost from the very beginning. Now, rather than reveal any more of the movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that even though there were some scenes which were a bit creepy there were also other scenes that I thought were a little dull and predictable. Along with that, although I liked all three of the actors I just mentioned, I thought the overall plot was kind of silly and towards the end I found it rather difficult to watch without shaking my head in disappointment. Obviously, others may disagree but even so I rate the movie as below average.