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Snakes in Movies

All Movie Snakes Want to Kill You!

Snakes in movies are malevolent monsters that bite and kill humans at every opportunity for no sensible reason.
In the real world, snakes prefer to avoid humans, though they will sometimes strike by accident or in self defense.

This is an alphabetical list of movies in this category taken from the main Snakes in Movies List.

You can see more pictures and read a description of the snake scenes by following the title link.

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Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film.

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17 Miracles (2011)

Two young girls walking on a trail encounter dozens of snakes and think that the snakes want to kill them. They survive by jumping over the snakes.

Alexander (2004)

When Alexander's army is in India we see a snake dangling from some vines where men are working. It bites one of them on the neck.

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)

A ranch hand shoots a snake that is swimming in a lake with a group of partying teenagers.

Altered States (1980)

A Harvard scientist eats some Mexican magic mushrooms and hallucinates that a python is choking him.

Apocalypto (2006)

A warrior is bitten on the neck by a venomous snake and left to kill himself by his companions.

April Fool's Day (1986)

A man is caught in a noose by his soon-to-be murderer and suspended upside down over a snake which is there by accident.

As You Like It (1936)

Orlando encounters his estranged brother sleeping in the forest with a large python on his neck preparing to kill him, because even Shakespeare believed all snakes want to kill you.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

A woman buys two venomous snakes that she was told were defanged and harmless to use in a funeral ritual, but when she takes them in hand and holds them up in front of her face, they bite her on the neck and kill her.

Big Fish (2003)

A watersnake swims towards a woman who is skinny dipping at night, and a guy swims after the snake.

Big Freakin' Snake (2023)

Pollution causes some snakes to mutate into giants and others to agressively attack people.

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (Step Kids) (1992)

Two boys encounter a rattlesnake in the woods and one of them picks it up by the tail and whips it to death.

Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

A man intentionally knocks another man down next to a snake that bites him and kills him.

Bullet Train (2022)

An assassin steals a venomous Boomslang from a zoo to use its venom to kill people. The snake escapes onto a bullet train where it bites someone.

Calamity of Snakes (1982)

A sleazy land developer kills thousands of snakes, then thousands more snakes form an army to get revenge by killing his workers and his tenants.

The Canyon (2009)

Stupid filmmakers use yet another vicious rattlesnake attack to get rid of a character to advance the plot because they have no creative ideas.

Club Paradise (1986)

A tourist in the forest on a Carribean island is attacked by a Burmese Python.

Copperhead (1983)

A paranoid murderer and his family hiding out in the Ozark woods are overrun by a swarm of deadly Copperheads. We cheer for the snakes.

Creeping Death (Kill the Poker Player) (1972)

Someone releases venomous snakes in the vicinity of people he wants dead, and somehow the snakes kill them.

Da 5 Bloods (2020) - Four Vietnam war veterans return to Vietnam. In the jungle, a snake drops out of some bamboo onto one of them and bites him on the arm.

Day of the Animals (1977)

Because the ozone layer has been depleted, animals at high elevations have become bloodthirsty killers, including the snakes. A man is first struck at by a rattlesnake in a truck bed, then he is bitten by two of them after he puts his arm inside a car.

The Day The Earth Froze (Sampo) 1959

A wicked witch has a field overrun with snakes. She coerces two men to plow the field as sakes attack them and their horse.

Death on the Nile (2022)

A snake charmer's snake races out of its basket towards a woman but it is stopped before it can bite her.

Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)

A bad guy thinks he's clever locking secret agent Dick Barton in a room full of venomous snakes in glass cages, then shooting the glass from outside the room to let the snakes escape to kill the men, as if the snakes are heat-seeking missiles or something.

Dragnet (1987)

A woman is abducted, dressed in a bridal gown, then thrown into a pool of water to be a human sacrifice for an Anaconda.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

A snake drops from a tree, wraps itself around Emanuelle's neck and tries to kill her, but somebody shoots it before it can swallow her.

Fer de Lance (1974)

A sailor on shore leave returns to his submarine with deadly snakes. Bet you can't guess what happens next.

Frogs (1972)

Snakes and frogs and lizards strike back at humans for polluting the world. No, this is not a documentary, not yet.

Hard Ticket To Hawaii (1987)

A giant mutant killer snake comes shooting out of a toilet in search of human blood.

Hell's Belles (1969)

Two fighting bikers fall into a mine full of rattlesnakes. Only one walks out.

Hideout in the Sun (1960)

A bank robber running from the police tries to hide in the Miami Serpentarium, which is full of snakes, including a deadly cobra that kills him because he gets too close to it.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

Thousands of deadly snakes are dumped into the Hunger Games arena to kill the remaining contestants.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)

A woman pursued by a man with a gun falls into a forest pond, then a venomous snake swims past her. She knocks the man into the water and the snake bites him on the face.

Identity Thief (2013)

A snake crawls up a man's pants, he tosses it into a tree, then it drops onto his shoulders and bites him on the face.

The Intruder (2010) (The Revenge of the King Cobra)

An army of snakes invades an apartment building killing everyone they encounter.

Jaws of Satan (1981)

Rattlesnakes become agressive and start killing people in a small town after a King Cobra possessed by Satan chases a Priest whose ancestors were cursed by Druids.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Four video game characters fight off a giant Black Mamba that attacks them.

The Jungle Book (1967)

Sterling Holloway is the voice of "Kaa" the Snake in the animated musical version of Kipling's classic tales. Kaa tries to eat 'Mowgli' the Man Cub, but 'Bagheera' the Panther stops him

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

A snake chases Arthur into a cave and attacks him.

The Kings of Summer (2013)

Three teenage boys run away and live in a shack in the woods that a snake enters and eventually bites one of them.

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

An inept assassin accidently dumps a cage full of cobras over his partner who is bitten on the face.

Lewis & Clark & George (1997)

A taciturn young woman steals a rare dangerous Chinese snake and takes it on a road trip.

Life After Beth (2014)

A woman who died from a snake bite rises from her grave but doesn't remember what happened.

Lonesome Dove (1989)

Cowboys on a cattle drive run into a nest of killer water moccasins in a river.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

A paleontologist hiding from a T-Rex is terrified to find a snake crawling down his shirt, so he runs right into the dinosaur's mouth.

Love at First Kill (aka The Box Collector) (2008)

A biker collects rattlesnakes and young girls but his wife and a snake kill him in the end.

Lure of the Wilderness (1952)

The Okefenokee swamp is full of dangerous Boa Constrictors and biting Cottonmouths.

Mutant Python (2021) China

A secluded mountain village in China is terrorized by a giant python, so they plan to sacrifice a girl to appease it.

The Magician (1926)

A horned viper in a snake charmer's tent at a Paris fair is used for a magic trick by a magician but then it bites one of the entertainers on the foot.

Marketa Lazarova (1967)

A man lying in a field with a girl is bitten on his arm by the proverbial snake in the grass, and loses his arm.

Mud (2013)

A bunch of water moccasins hang around together in a ditch waiting to bite anybody who falls in. Are we really supposed to believe this nonsense?

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

A man stumbles into the cage of a large python at the zoo, and the python squeezes him to death.

The Naked and the Dead (1958)

A WWII soldier on a Pacific island is bitten by a venomous snake, foams at the mouth, and is dead in a couple of minutes. A second soldier finds it and stupidly picks it up, then hacks it in two with a machete.

Nevada Smith (1966)

A woman falls out of a canoe onto a Cottonmouth which bites her in order to conveniently remove her from the plot because real men have no time for romantic attachments.

Pericolo negli abissi (1977)

Two women snorkeling in the ocean are bitten by a venomous sea snake and killed.

Primal (2019)

A poacher's exotic animal freight on a cargo ship includes some highly-venomous snakes, but a dangerous prisoner on board escapes and releases the snakes. Instead of crawling away and hiding, they attack the humans. Because all movie snakes want to kill you!

Rattlers (1976)

Mutant rattlesnakes invade a town after a rogue Army colonel contaminated them with stolen nerve gas.

The River (1951)

A young English boy plays a flute to bring a cobra out of hiding. That was the last thing he ever did.

The Sadist (1963)

A leering psycho killer falls into an abandoned well full of rattlesnakes, and we cheer for the snakes.

Serpent Island (1954)

A big killer snake guards some ancient treasure on an island protected by a voodoo cult.

The Serpent Warriors (1985)

A snake cult curse brings thousands of deadly snakes to attack everybody.

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

During his cocaine withdrawals Sherlock Holmes hallucinates snakes in his bed.

She Demons (1958)

A woman walks under a tree with a python in it so the hero can save her.

Siddhartha (1972)

A nobel prize winning author was not above using the old sudden snakebite trick to get rid of a character who is no longer needed.

Silent Predators (1999)

Mutant rattlesnakes invade a town because the construction projects of greedy land developers woke them up out of hibernation.

Silent Venom aka "Sea Snakes" (2009)

A bunch of extra-deadly mutated snakes are brought on a submarine. Bet you can't guess what happens next.

Snake Dancer (Glenda) (1976)

The story of Glenda Kemp, a South African dancer who fought for her right to dance nude with snakes.

Snake Island (2002)

A group of tourists in Africa are stranded on Snake Island, which, hard to believe, is full of deadly snakes that have evolved to kill every human on the island.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

A bunch of deadly snakes get loose on a plane.

Snakes on a Train (2006)

A bunch of deadly snakes get loose on a train, killing anyone who gets in their way.

Soldier (1998)

A supersoldier is left for dead on a planet used as a garbage dump that's also filled with dangerous snakes that crawl into people's rooms and beds.

Sssssss (1973)

A mad scientist adores his pet boa, kills his enemies with snakes, and develops a formula that turns a man into a King Cobra.

Strange Cargo (1940)

An escaped convict traveling through a jungle falls down in a swamp and is bitten on the leg by a venomous snake swimming in the water.

Swamp Water (1941)

A fugitive in the Okeefenokee Swamp bends down to wash his face and ends up with a pair of venomous Cottonmouth fangs in his cheek.

Swamp Women (1956)

An escaped convict sitting up in a tree shoots and kills a rattlesnake in a Louisiana swamp that was threatening to bite a man tied to a tree, because all snakes want to kill you.

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

A boy hiking through a swamp on a tropical island is attacked by a large snake that suddenly wraps itself around his body. He fights it off until his brother intervenes with a machete.

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

A giant snake wraps its body around an unconscious princess until the hero saves her.

Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

Jane is attacked by a giant snake because snakes want to kill us all.

Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)

Instead of shooting his opponent, a gunfighter shoots a snake on a branch over his head, to save his life. Because all snakes will kill you if you let them.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

A man climbs into a hole in a rock to rest, but finds a rattlesnake inside that bites him.

There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)

An outlaw hides stolen money in a den of rattlesnakes to keep it safe, but makes a big mistake when retrieving the money.

Tyranno's Claw (Tirannoui baltob) (1994)

A caveman finds a nest full of eggs in a tree. When he starts eating them a snake climbs down and kills him.

Unearthed (2007)

A man tricks a woman into getting bitten by a rattlesnake.

The Velvet Vampire (1971)

As a woman vampire prepares to bite a man on the neck, a sidewinder crawls towards a sunbathing woman lying on the ground, then climbs up onto her leg and bites her, for no good reason.

Venom (1981)

A family and their kidnappers are trapped inside a house with a deadly Black Mamba.

Venomous (2001)

Mutant rattlesnakes created by the military during Desert Storm escaped in a terrorist attack. They are awaken from their hibernation by an earthquake and invade a town, killing everybody in their way.

Vipers (2008)

Genetically-enhanced vipers invade a remote island town and kill and eat everybody they can find.

Voyager (Homo Faber) (1991)

A snake crawls onto a sleeping woman and bites her, proving that all snakes want to do is kill people.

Where the River Runs Black (1986)

A priest in the Amazon jungle breaks his vows then is drowned by a large snake in a river.

White Huntress (1954)

Snakes are on the attack in several scenes in this jungle adventure movie.

Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

An outlaw poacher named Cottonmouth carries a pet venomous snake in his pocket but he finally gets bitten by a different snake out in the Everglades.

Women in Fury (1984)

Fugitives from a woman's prison in Brazil run into a couple of deadly snakes in the jungle.

The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

A visiting New Zealand motorcyclist is welcomed by an American rattlesnake, fangs first.

Yellowneck (1955)

Civil War Confederate soldier deserters hike through the Florida Everglades where they encounter snakes, including a "nest" of rattlesnakes whose only purpose seems to be hanging around waiting to kill them.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

A boy freezes when he sees a rattlesnake near him, so his father shoots the snake instead of telling the boy to just walk away.

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