Darlings, This Was So Much Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         I rarely do follow ups on "Svengoolie" showings on here, anymore, because most of them are so repetitious.  But last Saturday, he showed something special, that I had never seen before--the 1973 film "Sssssssssssssss," with Strother Martin a post "Sound Of Music" Heather Menzies.

                         I was expecting this to be a revenge film, where Dr. Stoner (Strother Martin) uses the snakes, all of whom are real, to avenge himself on his perceived wrongdoers.  You get a bit of that, darlings, but unfortunately the film is all over the place.

                         Heather plays Stoner's daughter Kristina, with a hairstyle that makes her look like a repressed lesbian.  Yet, with her short shorts and ample chest, she is the hottest thing in town.  So hot that this dumb jock tries to climb through her bedroom window, but in the process gets tangled with pet snake Larrry, and both of them fall to their deaths.  I cried real tears over the death of Larry.  He was really cute.

                          I credit the actors with having the courage to handle these venomous creatures, themselves.  Maybe they were de-fanged or had their venom removed, but they sue looked real to me.  I wouldn't have done this film, no matter what.  And poor Heather.  I bet she wished she was running back in the Austrian Alps, with Julie Andrews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         But the carnival scene was the best.  Cheaply done, so the sleaze atmosphere was captured perfectly.  And when Heather saw the evolving Snake Man, and recognized their former assistant, Tim, well, she knew then what her father was doing--turning humans into snakes with human brains, so they can outlive everyone.  But what good is a human brain, if one is just a snake?  How can one go to the movies?  Or even watch "Svengoolie."

                            This movie did not think things out too well.  I was hoping the film would end with all of the snakes turning on Strother Martin.  He does get his, but only from a King Cobra, while Heather freaks out on camera, in a famous freeze shot.

                              Oh, girls, it was just so much fun!  Even those who dislike snakes could enjoy this! But I was still saddened by the death of poor Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               No wonder there was no sssssssssssequel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!