Short Short version: Boris Karloff plays a Doctor who's mixed in with a voodoo plot.
Snake People is one of the 4 movies Boris Karloff was cut and pasted into in 1968. He was filmed in the us but his chunks were added to Mexican horror films. He isn't given much to do as the doctor,other then crawling around and pouring chemicals in beakers. It's truly a waste when you compare it next to Targets(also made in 1968), his last great film, the finished movie wasn't realised til 1971.
Tho Karloff is wasted, it doesn't mean this isn't a fun flick. It's one of the first great so bad it's good monster flicks i saw on late night TV. It always stayed in my mind for just how cheap and odd it was. The shaky camera work mixed in with the plastic and fake voodoo bones add the right feel to it. Also the no name cast add a whole another cheese to it, from booze hating main ladies, to drunk police captains, and of course the voodoo midget. The voodoo midget might be the saving point for this movie for horror fans. Ive always liked to call him the pimp midget.
Snake people was a fun no brainer cheap horror flick with akward inserts of Boris and lots of poorly done voodoo fun.
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