Yeah, really, a movie called "Sssss". "[16] Leonard Maltin gave the film three out of a possible four stars, praising the film's "exceptional" make-up effects. They were recently caught in good health from the wild with full venom potency. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Growing suspicious, the police arrive and shoot the cobra before heading to the lab where a mongoose is attacking David's neck, attempting to kill him. A different cobra was used for each take. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Sssssss (released as Ssssnake in the United Kingdom and Japan) is a 1973 American horror film starring Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict and Heather Menzies. View production, box office, & company info. Four teenagers visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement. A puppeteer's ability to bring inanimate objects to life attracts the attention of the Nazis during World War II. 8 of 11 people found this review helpful. After being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. [9], Sssssss received its first Blu-ray release on April 26, 2016, via Shout! It received a nomination for the Best Science Fiction Film award of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1975. , this can't be it !' Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [17], Donald Guarisco from AllMovie gave the film a negative review. "[13] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4, writing, "Even after 40 years of improved film technology, the climactic scene in 'SSSSSSS' fails to match the drama of that moment when Frankenstein's monster sits up on the table. Stoner is bitten by a real king cobra from his lab and dies, just as David's transformation is complete. The filming of this part of the movie took most of a day, as the cobras spent most of their time trying to escape the fenced enclosure rather than rising up in the traditional cobra attack mode. Factory,[10] which included new interviews with stars Dirk Benedict and Heather Menzies as bonus features. Unbeknownst to David or anyone else, Stoner is a delusional man, convinced that humanity is doomed and is attempting to prepare for what he believes to be the inevitable by working out a method of transforming humans into reptiles that can survive any ecological disaster that would wipe out humanity. When David wakes up the next morning, he looks in the mirror and screams in horror. It is the only movie fiction I have ever seen that sustains a scholarly, informative attitude toward the world of snakes. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. Stoner attempts to hide David in a corner, but David gets enough strength to walk to a window, allowing Daniels to see that his face has become green and scaly. The "Snake Park" milking scenes were real and meant to mimic what Bill Haast did at his Miami Serpentarium in Florida daily. Oct 5, 2016 - From the 1973 horror film 'Ssssss,' starring Strother Martin and Dirk Benedict, this is a full, foam latex 'snake-man' phase 2 mask used for the film. Kristina arrives home and finds her father's body with the real cobra next to him. The special effects suck(being blunt and candid) as we see Dirk Benedict get an occasional scale on his green body. He begins to have strange nightmares and goes into a coma when having dinner with Stoner, not waking up until a few days later. The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose. The puppets return and hunt paranormal researchers in an attempt to take their brain fluid for their master, Andre Toulon. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David. Anyway back in the lab with David sitting down with his head away from the audience asks if he should go to a hospital which Stoner says they won't do anything but then David begins to take heavy pain. What we have here is a failure to....OH, wrong Strother Martin film. Kara│ ' You never get sick, that the best part about you' │1.07│ pt.1, Kara&James│'do something! Sssssss remained unreleased on home video in the United States until 1997, when it was issued by MCA Universal. Anyway Stoner grabs a weight and plans on knocking him out but David gets up and though getting weaker makes it too a window and then rest, to which the officer sees him and wakes him up. Stoner begins David on a course of injections, purportedly as a safeguard against being bitten by a snake in his lab. A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes. Transformation Edit. We then see David on top off his bed lying, fully dressed in a pair of pants a belt and a blue button shirt, presuming sleeping for Stoner to arrive. Were it not for the lurid, starkly flapping windup, this would be recommended in toto as a gripping, quietly imaginative hair-curler. This horrifies the officer but Stoner knocks him out and feeds him to a python, while David gets up and presumedly collapses. In his retrospective review he wrote, "Sssssss fails because it emulates the films that inspired it all too closely: the story moves forward at a laboriously slow pace, and its threadbare plot makes it all too easy for the viewer to pick apart its plot holes and implausible elements. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. Kara trying to hero without her power │1.07│pt.3, Supergirl│Kara got her power back ' Go get them Supergirl' │1.07│ pt.3, Ore No Shikabane O Koete Yuke Ogre Transformation, https://transformation-how.fandom.com/wiki/David_(sssssss)?oldid=594. Sssssss (1973)-Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict -Horror, Sci-Fi With Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull. He later hires college student David Blake as an assistant, claiming that his previous assistant had left town to attend to a sick relative. David is the main Protagonist of the 1973 film Sssssss. "[18], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 30% based on 10 reviews with an average rating of 4.1/10.

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