The Snake Woman

The Snake Woman (1961)

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.

Date of release
1961-04-26
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 8m
Genres
Horror
Director
Sidney J. Furie

Casting

Interesting facts

The Snake Woman is a 1961 British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie from a screenplay by Orville H. Hampton, and starring Susan Travers, John McCarthy, Geoffrey Denton, Elsie Wagstaff, Arnold Marlé and John Cazabon.

Production

The script, by Orville H. Hampton, was purchased by Sidney J. Furie's Caralan Productions Ltd. Furie himself rewrote it to be set in England at the turn of the 20th century in order to "cash in on the current fad for period pieces" that characterised the popular horror films of Hammer Film Productions.

The Snake Woman was produced back-to-back with Doctor Blood's Coffin, also directed by Furie and produced by George Fowler. The two films also share many of the same crew. The Snake Woman was "intended only as the lower half of a double bill" and its "perfunctory re-write" left it looking as if it was made "with the sole intention of making the A feature look better".

The movie had a budget of £17,000 and was shot in six days at Walton Studios in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. The rapid production was possible, according to Furie, because "all the sets were built inside each other. You peeled one off, you had the next set. And you peeled that one off, you had the next. It was like working in television again."

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