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Snakes in Movies   Nightbreed (1990)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   Horror, dark fantasy, slasher, monster horror, supernatural body horror, fantasy epic, love story, love conquers the supernatural, creature feature... these words have all been used to describe this movie, directed by Clive Barker, who also made Hellraiser and Candyman. Underneath the opening credits are some shots of snakes, and later, snakes line a stairway that is the entrance to the underground home of the nightbreed. The movie introduces us to a community of misunderstood mutant outcasts called the nightbreed, who are described as the last survivors of the great tribes of shapeshifters, freaks, and berzerkers, the remains of races that the human tribe has almost driven to extinction. The nightbreed vary from vaguely human in appearance to horrifying mutations, and the makeup and costuming of the nightbreed is maybe the best part of the movie. At the end, angry armed soldiers, law enforcement officers and red-neck hunters try to exterminate the nightbreed once again. These armed human monsters, who include a respected psychiatrist who is also a serial killer slasher, are more frightening than the nightbreed. The nightbreed live underneath an isolated graveyard in rural Canada called Midian, to hide from humanity, who they call "naturals" or "meat," and because most of the nightbreed will die if exposed to sunlight. When a young woman named Lori (Anne Bobby) comes to Midian to search for her boyfriend Boone (who was bitten by one of the nightbreed then killed by the police which turned him into a nightbreed) she walks down some old dark stairs covered with snakes to get to where the nightbreed live underground. She has to tiptoe over snakes lying on the steps and climbing on the walls. It's rare to see this in a movie, but she walks through the snakes without screaming, or trying to kill them, or even looking scared. She doesn't flinch much either when she sees the nightbreed which are considerably more frightening. Later we see another shot of the snakes on the stairs for no particular reason. Why all the snakes? Probably because snakes are creepy and scary and so are the nightbreed. And because live snakes are easy to get and the kind of snakes they used here don't move very fast so they can be easily used as background scenery, like living Halloween decorations. It's hard to see all the snakes in the dark, but most of them appear to be harmless snakes you can buy in most pet stores - Burmese Pythons, Boa Constrictors, and Ball Pythons. You can read a synopsis of the movie and watch it on the SilverScream, or if you want to watch the 3 hour and twenty minute version of the movie, it's on YouTube.