The Snake Woman

The Snake Woman

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!

1961 · 68 min · ★ 4.7 · Horror

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.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie · Written by Orville H. Hampton

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John McCarthy Charles Prentice
Susan Travers Atheris
Geoffrey Denton Col. Clyde Wynborn
Elsie Wagstaff Aggie Harker
Arnold Marlé Dr. Murton
John Cazabon Dr. Horace Adderson
Frances Bennett Polly, the Barmaid
Jack Cunningham Constable Alfie
Hugh Moxey Inspector
Michael Logan Barkis
Dorothy Frere Martha Adderson
Stevenson Lang Shepherd

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