Title: Need help for a customer (snake movie)
Marc McCloud - December 15, 2006 07:41 PM (GMT)
A customer's grandpa is trying to recall the title of a 70s drive in movie and thought this would be the best place for it. The plot sound familiar to me, but I don't think I've seen it...
SPOILERS IF THIS MAN'S MEMORY IS CORRECT...
A man changes a tire with a snake's fang embedded in it. Sure enough, he's pricked by the fang and his slowly turns into a snake. He eventually dies and is cut open to reveal dozens of snakes inside.
Any guesses?
thanks,
marc
Richard Harland Smith - December 15, 2006 09:29 PM (GMT)
I think grandpa was having a peyote flashback.
Marc McCloud - December 15, 2006 09:41 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Richard Harland Smith @ Dec 15 2006, 03:29 PM) |
| I think grandpa was having a peyote flashback. |
I don't know. Doesn't this sound like a New World picture?
marc
Mark Tinta - December 15, 2006 11:26 PM (GMT)
First things first....there is no 1970s snake movie worthy of discussion other than SSSSSSSS. Come on! Overacting Strother Martin, Face from THE A-TEAM turning into a snake, and YOR singing "On Top of Old Smoky" in the shower before getting attacked by a snake? It doesn't get any better than that.
That said, the only thing that sounds remotely like this, and there's no way this is it, is the 1988 Italian-Japanese co-production CURSE II: THE BITE. J. Eddie Peck started barfing snakes prior to turning into one after being bitten by some radioactive snakes, if I recall (nothing about a fang in a tire--a fang in a tire?!). And if that wasn't horrifying enough, Jamie Farr was the hero. But I don't think that played drive-ins--went straight to video, if memory serves.
Now I'm curious what this other movie--"Tirefang"?---is.
Marty McKee - December 16, 2006 01:40 AM (GMT)
In RATTLERS, a Jeep is incapacitated when it drives down a desert road, and a rattlesnake bites its tire. While the Jeep is moving. Uh, sure. However, nobody turns into a snake in RATTLERS.
Marc McCloud - December 16, 2006 01:30 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mark Tinta @ Dec 15 2006, 05:26 PM) |
First things first....there is no 1970s snake movie worthy of discussion other than SSSSSSSS. Come on! Overacting Strother Martin, Face from THE A-TEAM turning into a snake, and YOR singing "On Top of Old Smoky" in the shower before getting attacked by a snake? It doesn't get any better than that.
That said, the only thing that sounds remotely like this, and there's no way this is it, is the 1988 Italian-Japanese co-production CURSE II: THE BITE. J. Eddie Peck started barfing snakes prior to turning into one after being bitten by some radioactive snakes, if I recall (nothing about a fang in a tire--a fang in a tire?!). And if that wasn't horrifying enough, Jamie Farr was the hero. But I don't think that played drive-ins--went straight to video, if memory serves.
Now I'm curious what this other movie--"Tirefang"?---is. |
I just remembered that this is the plot for CURSE II, a movie that I have seen and have blocked out of my memory. Thanks for the help.
marc
Mark Tinta - December 16, 2006 03:02 PM (GMT)
I didn't really think that would be it. Glad I could help.
Every year here in Toledo, the city's hometown hero Jamie Farr hosts an LPGA golf tournament. Two or three years ago, I asked the tournament's media director if I could set up an interview with Farr for the local rag with whom I periodically freelance, and she gave me his e-mail, we made contact, everything was on, but as soon as I jokingly said "Well, as a fan of B-movies, I might have to ask you one or two questions about the 1988 snake classic CURSE II: THE BITE," he stopped responding and the interview never happened. It certainly can't be any more embarrassing to him than CANNONBALL RUN II.
The best part is, about three months after that year's tournament, I got an e-mail from Farr saying "I'm glad we got to talk and it was nice to meet you!" What?!