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Sssssss
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Sssssss is a 1973 American body horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, and Heather Menzies. Its plot follows a college student who becomes a laboratory assistant to a herpetologist who is covertly developing a serum that can transform human beings into snakes.
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5.2David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.
Cast
- Strother Martin as Dr. Carl Stoner
- Dirk Benedict as David Blake
- Heather Menzies as Kristina Stoner
- Richard B. Shull as Dr. Ken Daniels
- Tim O'Connor as Kogen
- Jack Ging as Sheriff Dale Hardison
Themes
- experiment
- snake
- transformation
- mad scientist
- turns into animal
- cobra
- college student
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Ratings
IMDb
5.4/10
4,424 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
30%
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 1973
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Sssssss
- Film.image
- SSSSSSS.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Bernard L. Kowalski
- Film.screenplay
- Hal Dresner
- Film.story
- Daniel C. Striepeke
- Film.producer
- Daniel C. Striepeke
- Film.cinematography
- Gerald Perry Finnerman
- Film.editing
- Robert Watts
- Film.music
- Patrick Williams
- Film.distributor
- Universal Pictures
- Film.runtime
- 99 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $1 million
- Film.gross
- $1 million (US/Canada rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 99
- FilmAffinity ID
- 482085
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- publication date
- 1977-11-05
- title
- Sssssss
- review score
- 30%
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15 sectionsContents
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Sssssss is a 1973 American body horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, and Heather Menzies. Its plot follows a college student who becomes a laboratory assistant to a herpetologist who is covertly developing a serum that can transform human beings into snakes.
The make-up effects were created by John Chambers and Nick Marcellino. It received a nomination for the Best Science Fiction Film award of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in 1975.