Sssssss! AKA Kobra (1973) [REVIEW] #snakesofjunetoo

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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Dragon Wars: D-War (2008) [REVIEW] | Imagine Depressing Dragons

You know Reptilian, the South Korean 1999 movie also known as Yonggary, despite not really being a remake of the South-Korean Yongary: Monster From The Deep?

We’re not talking about that. It’s pretty well known for its unfinished crappy CG for the monsters, the laughably stupid dialogues and its clear attempt at copying Godzilla… the 1998 Roland Emmerich american remake Godzilla, that is.

It’s a cult sensation, one i feel it’s pretty well known to genre fans, so i would argue there’s not much point going over it again. And i won’t, not today.

What is less discussed is Dragon Wars: D-War, despite also being a Korean monster movie from director Shim Hyung-Rae, and pretty much a continuation of Reptilian, as in a second attempt to make a proper Korean monster movie for home and abroad.

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