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Cult of the Cobra

USA 1955
produced by
Howard Pine for Universal
directed by Francis D. Lyon
starring Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes, William Reynolds, Jack Kelly, Myrna Hansen, David Janssen, Leonard Strong, James Dobson, Walter Coy, The Carlssons, Olan Soule, Helen Wallace, Mary Alan Hokanson, John Halloran, Alan Reynolds, Edward Platt
story by Jerry Davis, screenplay by Jerry Davis, Cecil Maiden, Richard Collins, music by Irving Gertz, William Lava, Lou Maury, Stanley Wilson

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Paul  (Richard Long) and Tom (Marshall Thompson), two GIs returning from World War II where they served in Asia, are both in love with the same girl, actress Julia (Kathleen Hughes), but she chooses Paul over Tom, which leaves Tom heartbroken - but not for long, soon he meets Lisa (Faith Domergue), his new next-door neightbours, falls in love with her on the spot, and starts to date her. She loves him back, too, but there are a few things odd about her, she seems to have commitment problems that make her almost frigid, animals seem to fear her, and both Paul and Julia soon grow mighty suspicious about her. Oh, and then Paul and Tom's army buddies start to die ...

... but that's not how the story starts, actually it starts back in Asia, when Paul and Tom and four others (William Reynolds, Jack Kelly, David Janssen, James Dobson) sneak their way into a ceremony of the highly secretive Lamia cult, a cult worshipping cobra-women, are found out and cursed by the high priest - and since then, all of Paul and Tom's friends have died in cobra-related incidents. Paul soon starts to suspect Lisa is a cobra woman, but of course he cannot make the police believe ... until it's almost too late, and while he and the police still try to track her down, Lisa is in Julia's dressing room with her and Tom, turns into a snake and tries to kill them - but Tom manages to throw the cobra off the window ledge just in time ... though it's Lisa who hits the ground.

 

This Universal horror film of the 1950's is not as much reminiscent of the Universal horror cycle of previous decades (that has long run its course by 1955) as is it of Jacques Tourneur's classic Cat People from 1942 - yet with none of that movie's verve. Where Tourneur tried to create a very unique atmosphere of unease, Cult of the Cobra just relies on tried-and-true but overused lighting techniques, where Cat People had strong yet masterfully disguised psychosexual undercurrents, this film just seems blunt, and where the earlier film appears to be highly innovative even today, Cult of the Cobra just seems old-fashioned and derivative.

That all said, Cult of the Cobra is not the worst film ever, not by a longshot, it's ok low budget run-of-the-mill horror fare for the drive-in crowd, a bit on the stiff and stuffy side, but not too bad after alll - just not too good, either.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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