If you don't want to hear me ramble on about herpetology, you can go ahead and stop reading. The film has a title card in the beginning that explains "All reptiles in the film are real". Well yes they are, but apart from the King Cobra, the snakes are all mislabeled. Now, obviously this was done to protect the actors from being bitten by venomous snakes on the set, but for someone like me who takes it seriously, it's really irritating. With all that aside though, the film has a pretty ridiculous plot, some crazy dude wants to turn people into snakes. Yes, into snakes. The movie would be more watchable if he was trying to turn them into say, half reptilian humanoids, but no, this guy wants them to actually become snakes, identical to the ones he has in his lab. Now that's just weird. I won't lie, when the guy who was only "half snake" was found at the circus show, his obvious state of pain and misery was really heart renching. Decent acting, decent movie, but could use some work.

Not much to write about, but sssuffice to sssay its sssecond half is where the venom ssstrikes.Sssssss is just another When-Animals-Attack/Mad-Scientist-Goes-Green films from the 70s. It's not necessarily bad, at least for the first three quarters, but then the movie literally falls apart when someone reminded the writer this was supposed to be a horror movie.College snake expert slowly turns assistant into a "man-snake" (?) because man-men are destroying the planet. Eh, throw in a love story and funding problems, and you have a too-long film.If you like the subgenre as mentioned above, like I do, it's harmlessssssssss.***Final thoughts: Day 18 Movie in the Can! I'm watching a NEW-2-ME horror movie every day of October 2016 and this one was mentioned many times on a horror podcast I listened to. I previously saw like the last 20 minutes on TV once and thought I'd see what all the fussssss was about. (Ok, I'm done.)

A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.This film is far from perfect. It could use a few more horror or science fiction elements, perhaps. Where it excels is with the use of real snakes and the knowledge that the professor has. I am not a herpetologist, and would not claim to be any sort of snake expert. But when the professor is explaining different things about snakes, it sounds very real, like he really knows what he's doing. So, well done on the script.The premise is a bit silly, but not overly so. This seems like the sort of thing that might be in a 1950s movie rather than a 1970s film from Universal. Director Bernard Kowalski (1929-2007), perhaps not surprisingly, is a veteran of such Roger Corman-produced films as "Night of the Blood Beast" and "Attack of the Giant Leeches". (Kowalski was director on both, but you can imagine that Corman had his fingers in the pie.)

Okay, let me start with the title... Sssssss? Who came up with that!? You can't expect me to talk to a friend and go like: "Hey I saw a movie last night." "Cool, which one?" "Sssssss" "Excuse me?"It just doesn't work!Okay enough about that... Let's talk about the movie itself. I honestly don't know what to say about it. Well okay, it is rather unique. It's part horror, part drama, part creature feature, part mystery.The story is about a doctor who is an expert when it comes to snakes. He lives in a house with his daughter, who helps him in his experiments. I won't spoil the main plot, because it's what makes this movie what it is. The acting is okay and the story develops at a steady pace with a few strange twists. They used real snakes in this movie. They have the guts to say so right at the start of the movie. I respect the movie and the actors for working with the real deal.Just for that reason I'm giving this movie 5 stars. Gonna add 1 more star for the creativity.Sssssss is a strange, unique movie that's worth a watch when you get your hands on it, but don't expect an amazing masterpiece. It's an enjoyable film, but nothing more.