Often retitled as Kobra because of its deliciously stupid – and super campy – original title of Ssssss!, this is one of the many killer animals/nature gets revengeance of the early 70s… or is it?

Remember, despite it predating Jaws, killer animal movies did exist, i mean, look at the often brought up Frogs, released a year before, so it would be fairly logical to assume Ssssss is just another one of these that just happened to release before Spielberg’s shark opus made it trendy, profitable and popular, doing it before “it became cool to”.

And yet, Ssssss is not really that, but more of a 50s movie done in the 70s, and is about a college student, David, working as lab assistant to a mad doctor that is working on a serum that can turn people into snakes. David also begins to fall in love with the scientist’s daughter, but the good doctor plans to test the serum on the boy, stupid enough to work for someone that unironically, legitimately is called Dr. Stoner.

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