One Thing For Sure, the Production didn't Spare Any Expense Hiring Snakes to Fill the Screen from the Get-Go.
The Atmosphere is Repeatedly Low-Budget Awful with Repeated Scenes of Fields of Dead Grass, an Old Burned Out Building and Snakes, Snakes, and More Snakes.
The Elderly Thespians are OK, Providing Egg-Headed Reasoning and Weary Wisdom.
But the Lead Actor, John McCarthy, is just Terrible with Odd Facial Expressions and Less than Impressive Constable-On-Patrol Investigating who Seems Lost Most of the Time Tramping around in the same Studio Set Again and Again Looking for what He Doesn't Believe is "The Snake Woman".
Just a Babe in Rags He Meets On His Way to the "Old Witch" who Let the "Snake-Baby" Live when She was the Midwife, so She is Powerless to Put an End to Her Killing, or so She Says the Legend Goes.
To Make Up for the Mannequin Lead-Man there are a Couple of "Lookers" with Susan Travers as the Titular Hy-Bred and Francis Bennett as "Polly the Barmaid" who Flashes a Lot of Cleavage.
Overall, some Chills, but a Lot of Filler in the Frame with Bombastic Music from Music Director Phillip Martel, a Hammer Alum.
For Hard-Core Horror Fans it's...
Worth a Watch
For Others, this can be Over-Looked Without Missing Much.
The Atmosphere is Repeatedly Low-Budget Awful with Repeated Scenes of Fields of Dead Grass, an Old Burned Out Building and Snakes, Snakes, and More Snakes.
The Elderly Thespians are OK, Providing Egg-Headed Reasoning and Weary Wisdom.
But the Lead Actor, John McCarthy, is just Terrible with Odd Facial Expressions and Less than Impressive Constable-On-Patrol Investigating who Seems Lost Most of the Time Tramping around in the same Studio Set Again and Again Looking for what He Doesn't Believe is "The Snake Woman".
Just a Babe in Rags He Meets On His Way to the "Old Witch" who Let the "Snake-Baby" Live when She was the Midwife, so She is Powerless to Put an End to Her Killing, or so She Says the Legend Goes.
To Make Up for the Mannequin Lead-Man there are a Couple of "Lookers" with Susan Travers as the Titular Hy-Bred and Francis Bennett as "Polly the Barmaid" who Flashes a Lot of Cleavage.
Overall, some Chills, but a Lot of Filler in the Frame with Bombastic Music from Music Director Phillip Martel, a Hammer Alum.
For Hard-Core Horror Fans it's...
Worth a Watch
For Others, this can be Over-Looked Without Missing Much.