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Killer Snakes
Hong Kong 1974
produced by Shaw Brothers
directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
starring Kam Kwok Leung, Maggie Li Lin-lin, Chen Chun, Lin Feng
review by Mike Haberfelner
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An unstable young man who suffers from seeing his mother having SM-sex
& who is bullied by everyone in sight, takes care of some cobras,
who had their gall bladders taken out by the pharmacist next door. Not only
are they his only friends, soon they also become the weapon of his
revenge, a vengeance he wreaks on almost everyone in sight: the prostitute
who robbed him (he ties her to a bed spreadeagled & has a snake
crawl up her vagina - it's not shown in every detail but sleazy enough
anyway) plus her gang of hoods, the pharmacist who tortured his snakes,
the woman who turned the girl he loved into a whore (she gets turned on
by the torture he inflicts on her, so he has sex with her before killing
her), said girl (tlo save her from a life of misery as a prostitute)
& her first patron (who wakes up in a bed full of snakes). In the
end though, our hero sees himself cornered by the police & burns all
his snakes ... or so he thinks, because those snakes who managed to
escape now bite him to death for revenge.
This movie was - quite obviously - more than a little inspired
by Willard, though it definitely takes a turn to the sleazy side
(the sadomasochist mother of our hero for example has no other function
than to have an excuse for putting some SM-scenes into the movie). It
starts out pretty wild, too, but once the formula of wrongdoing &/or
sex-revenge by means of snakes is established, it does get a bit dull
& repetitive.
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