1974 · horror · shaw-brothers · snakes
The Killer Snakes
Directed by Kuei Chih-hung1h 39m1974
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.
Our read: The Killer Snakes (1974) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · shaw-brothers · snakes entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / shaw-brothers, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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