Thursday, October 9, 2014

The Snake Woman (1961)


United Artists
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Timeless Media Group)

A scientist in a rural English village keeps his wife alive by injecting her with venom from snakes. She gives birth to their daughter, who has "cold blood" and no eyelids. The locals form a lynch mob and kill the scientist, but the town doctor finds a home for the baby girl-reptile. Twenty years later, people are mysteriously dying from snake bites. Scotland Yard sends a man to investigate. Smart and atmospheric thriller that rises above its low budget and outrageous plot.

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