Click on a picture to enlarge it Snakes in Movies Group Pages All Movie Snakes Must Die! All Movie Snakes Want to Kill You! Dancing With Snakes Giant Monster Snakes Pet Snakes Shooting Snakes Snake Bites Snake Charmers Snake Face Snake Fights Snake People Snake Pits SnakeSexploitation Snakes & Skulls Snakes Run Amok Snakes Used as Weapons Snakes Used for Comedy Snakes Used for Food or Medicine Snakes Used Realistically Throwing and Whipping Snakes Kinds of Snakes Rattlesnakes Cobras Black Mambas Boas, Pythons, and Anacondas Unusual Species Settings Snake in the House! Snakes in Beds Snakes in Jungles and Swamps Snakes In Trees Genres & Locations Snakes In Westerns Snakes in Asian Movies Herps in Australian Movies Herps in James Bond Movies Herps in Silent Movies Herps in Spielberg Movies

Snakes in Movies   Jaws of Satan (aka King Cobra) (1981)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   "And the angel seized the serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years ... after that he must be loosed for a little while." Revelations 20:2,3" This movie is confused about what it wants to be and who is the hero, but it was better than I thought it would be. Probably because my expecations were extremely low. It's one part nature-run-amok with a herpetologist hero, and another part possessed-demon-run-amok with an exorcising priest. The priest, whose witch-killing Irish ancestors were cursed by druids long ago, is chased by a King Cobra that escapes from a carnival train after becoming possessed by Satan. The demonic cobra causes the local rattlesnakes to start biting everybody in the small Alabama town where the priest works. After seeing the horrible effects of the cobra's bites, a cute young female doctor calls in a cute young male herpetologist from another town. He saves her from the rattlesnake in her bed, then takes the snake's place. (Smooth move.) The corrupt town mayor and his corrupt business associate try to cover up the snake mayhem disaster so the opening of their new dog racing track won't be spoiled. Along the way we have some of the usual cliches - a snake crawls into a woman's bathtub, teenagers at the local make-out spot are attacked by snakes, and plenty of innocent people get bit by snakes, including a naive child snakebite victim (a 10-year-old Christina Applegate - who plays the Mayor's daughter.) The snakes in this movie are all real, although one that is supposedly shot in the head is apparently either already dead or maybe some kind of fake with some spurting-blood effects added. Congratulations are in order for the use of Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes and other local snakes, and for actually having the actors interact with them. The herpetologist even picks up what appear to be live rattlesnakes. Even the King Cobra was filmed in the same location as the actors in at least one scene (with glass between them as protection.) But thumbs down for perpetuating the usual negative images of agressive snakes that only want to bite and kill people and for showing harmless snakes as killers.