Weird! Supernatural! Horrifying! Serpent-Girl Terrorizes Town! Teen-age beauty turns into deadly reptile at will...spreading horror with fang and forked tongue! Nothing ever struck you like The Snake Woman!
A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Writers: Orville H. Hampton
CultpixFor what this is this is quite excellent. It is, of course, low budget and it is early 60s and it is British and it is hokey, but it is still rather good. We have become quite jaded to the twists and turns of narrative design in movies, but in the 60s this would have been deeply…
