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Throwing and Whipping Snakes in Movies

This is an alphabetical list of movies in which snakes are used as whips against someone or are picked up and thrown,
often to get them as far away from the person as quickly as possible, but sometimes they are thrown at someone in an attempt to kill them.
They're all taken from the main Snakes in Movies List.

Live snakes in movies are sometimes treated like a piece of rope that can be tossed at someone, thrown around somebody's neck
or used as a whip. In the real world, You shouldn't do any of these things with a live snake.

You can see more pictures and read a description of scenes with snakes being thrown or whipped by following the title link.

Spoiler Alert !

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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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Two men try to kill him, then hide in a pit, so Cable throws rattlesnakes into the pit to force them out.

Barbarosa (1982)

An outlaw climbing down a cliff is startled by a rattlesnake. He catches it as it strikes at him then falls off a cliff into a river with it. When he comes up out of the water, he panics and throws the snake away onto a rock, unharmed.

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.

Billy Jack (1971)

Billy Jack performs a snake ceremony in a walled ring, dancing around in a circle with a rattlesnake getting bitten repeatedly until he finally grabs the snake and throws it across the ring.

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. We see several people grabbing snakes off their bodies and throwing them away.

Call Her Savage (1932)

A rattlesnake scares her horse and throws her to the ground, so Clara Bow takes her horse whip and savagely whips the snake again and again.

Chato's Land (1972)

Charles Bronson hurls a rattlesnake off a hill onto a bad guy. End of bad guy.

Cowboy (1958)

A cowboy finds a rattlesnake at their campsite so he picks it up with a stick and throws it. It gets thrown back and forth until somebody gets bit.

Devil Woman (1970)

A woman with snakes growing out of her head can control snakes and uses them to kill people. She throws one at a Kung Fu master, but he punches it away.

The Devil's Rain (1975)

A man wears a magic amulet around his neck to protect him from a Satanic priest, but the priest uses magic to make him believe that the amulet is a snake. The man freaks out and throws the snake to the ground, where we see that it is really the amulet, and the man is no longer protected.

Drunken Master II (The Legend of Drunken Master) (1994) A young woman who sells snakes in an outdoor food market in China throws bags full of her snakes at soldiers to make them drop their guns.

Escort West (1958)

A man picks up a rattlesnake and throws it around the neck of an Indian warrior who is chasing him.

Frogs (1972)

After a snake drops out of a tree onto him, a man wrestles with it, then throws it as far as he can.

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

A Kalahari bushman finds a cobra, picks it up by the tail and whips it on the ground to kill it. Then he takes it for food and its skin.

Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Indiana Jones is pulled out of a sand pit with a snake that is thrown him to be used as a rope. Afterwards, Mutt gets rid of the snake by throwing it over as far as he can.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984)

A python drops onto a woman's neck so she grabs it an throws it to the ground.

In the Lost Lands (2025)

A hunter named Boyce keeps a pet two-headed rattlesnake in his rifle holster that he likes to throw at his enemies to bite them and kill them.

Joshua (aka Black Rider) (1976)

A man drops a rattlesnake over a cliff onto another man who gets snakebit and dies.

Labyrinth (1986)

The Goblin King turns his crystal ball into a snake then throws it around the neck of a teenage girl to warn her to forget about her stolen baby brother. The snake wraps around her neck, then turns into a scarf.

Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)

Two women find a snake in the forest, one is terrified, the other picks it up, examines it, then kills it with her bare hands and throws it at the second woman.

Late August at the Hotel Ozone (The End of August at the Hotel Ozone

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Mad Max grabs a venomous snake that's guarding a gyro helicopter but the snake's owner makes him put it down. Later, the snake's owner flies above Max and throws the snake out of his helicopter to kill some men who are trying to kill Max.

Meltdown (Shu dan long wei) (1995)

A terrorist throws dozens of deadly snakes at a woman to force her to do what he wants.

The Mummy Returns (2001)

Snakes are kicked and tossed throughout this movie. First, a woman kicks a snake at her husband, then a second woman throws a deadly Egyptian asp at a man's face, but he catches it and throws it right back into another guy's face, in a snake double toss.

Nadine (1987)

A box full of snake-handler rattlesnakes is used as a threat until the intended victim turns the tables and throws them at the guy who threatened him.

Never Say Never Again (1983)

A female spy throws her pet Boa Constrictor into a man's car causing him to lose control and crash into a wall.

The Northman (2022)

A he-witch throws a snake that turns into a rope which is needed to get inside a tomb.

The Perils of Pauline (1914)

A Gypsy woman hides a snake under flowers in a basket and gives it to a woman hoping it will bite her and kill her. Her boyfriend finds it and whips it to death.

Race With the Devil (1975)

Devil cultists put some rattlesnakes inside a Winnebago to kill some unhappy campers. Peter Fonda grabs one by the neck, whips it to death, and throws it out the door.

Road to Zanzibar (1941)

Bob Hope finds a snake in the bed of his jungle tent and throws it.

RRR (2022)

This one has a snake tossed two times by two different men. A captive man catches a snake in his hands which are tied behind his back. When his torturer returns he throws the snake at him and it bites him on the arm. He frantically removes the snake and throws it away from him but it's too late.

Shalako (1968)

Sean Connery picks up a rattlesnake and whips it to death on the ground because he's a yellow-bellied sissy who's afraid of a little ole snake.

The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

Snakes crawl into foxholes soldiers are digging in Africa, causing panic, so their commander jumps into the hole, picks them up, and throws them away.

Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

Harrison Ford pulls a snake out of Anne Heche's underpants and throws it away.

Snakes (aka Fangs) (1974)

An old snake collector kills off his enemies with venomous snakes that he throws at them.

Soldier (1998)

A snake crawls up to a woman gardening on a planet used as a garbage dump so she whacks it with her gardening tool and throws it away.

Superman II (1980)

A villainous superwoman from Krypton lands on earth, picks up a snake and it bites her on the hand. She doesn't like that so she throws it to the ground then shoots laser beams out of her eyes and burns it to death.

The Tall Texan (1953)

A man shoots a rattlesnake, then picks it up and uses it to whip another man.

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel) (1967)

A woman suffering from amnesia opens a container with a juvenile Burmese python in it. At first she thinks it's a lovely present, but she suddenly gets her memory back and realizes she's afraid of snakes, so she throws it as far away from her as she can.

Uncommon Valor (1983)

A Viet Nam war veteran crawling through a drainage pipe in Laos s bitten on the hand by a python, so he cuts its head off with a knife then throws the snake's body to his partner outside.

Vanishing Point (1971)

A desert rat collects rattlesnakes for a snake-handling cult, but his customer refuses to buy his latest batch and throws them out of their basket.

The Velvet Vampire (1971)

A man finds a sidewinder that crawled up onto his sunbathing wife's leg. He uses a stick to throw the snake as far as he can.

Venom (2011)

A woman runs over a snake then scrapes it off her tire with a stick and throws it off the road.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

A young boy picks up a rattlesnake with his bare hand and throws it to his brother.

Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

An outlaw poacher named Cottonmouth carries a pet venomous snake in his pocket that he throws at people when he needs them to die of "natural causes."

Women in Cages (1971)

A snake crawls through a barred prison window so a woman prisoner throws it at her cellmate to kill her.

Year One (2009)

A snake underneath the tree of knowledge of good and evil crawls up a young man and wraps around his neck, even though he wasn't the person who ate the fruit. In the end credits we see a short scene with the person who did eat the fruit, throwing and wrestling with the snake.

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