Snakes in Movies |
Throwing and Whipping Snakes in Movies
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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.
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 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Chato's Land (1972)
Charles Bronson hurls a rattlesnake off a hill onto a bad guy. End of bad guy. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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Escort West (1958)
A man picks up a rattlesnake and throws it around the neck of an Indian warrior who is chasing him. |

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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Joshua (aka Black Rider) (1976)
A man drops a rattlesnake over a cliff onto another man who gets snakebit and dies. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Meltdown (Shu dan long wei) (1995)
A terrorist throws dozens of deadly snakes at a woman to force her to do what he wants. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Bob Hope finds a snake in the bed of his jungle tent and throws it. |
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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. |
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Harrison Ford pulls a snake out of Anne Heche's pants and throws it like a pro quarterback. |
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Snakes (aka Fangs) (1974)
An old snake collector kills off his enemies with venomous snakes that he throws at them. |
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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. |
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The Tall Texan (1953)
A man shoots a rattlesnake, then picks it up and uses it to whip another man. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
A young boy picks up a rattlesnake with his bare hand and throws it to his brother. |
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Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
An outlaw poacher named Cottonmouth carries a pet venomous snake in his pocket that he thows at people when he needs them to die of "natural causes." |
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Women in Cages (1971)
A snake crawls through a barred prison window so a woman prisoner throws it at her cellmate to kill her. |
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