Snakes Used as a Weapon in Movies
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In these films, snakes or their venom are intentionally used as weapons to guard a space or to attack, punish, threaten, or kill someone, including when they are used as a weapon against oneself in suicide.
In these films, snakes or their venom are intentionally used as weapons to guard a space or to attack, punish, threaten, or kill someone, including when they are used as a weapon against oneself in suicide.
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- DirectorWilliam GreféStarsChris RobinsonAlex RoccoSteve AlaimoA young Seminole Indian uses his rattlesnake to take revenge on all those he believes have wronged him.Tim uses his pet rattlesnake Stanley to kill people.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsJack PalanceLaura GemserGabriele TintiEva comes to Hong Kong. Seeing Eva perform with a snake, Judas gets interested in her. He showers her with gifts. She moves in with him and his snakes. Things get grim.A guy who gets his kicks murdering women with venomous snakes is then eaten alive from the inside by a mutant snake that is put into his anus by his victim's lesbian lover. (Seriously)
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.A black mamba with venom so toxic it can kill someone in 20 minutes is hidden in a briefcase full of cash and bites the face of a poor slob who thought he was going to be rich. But that's not the worst thing that happens to him - as he lays paralyzed and dying, he is forced to listen to Daryl Hannah read a handwritten list of facts about the black mamba for what seems like the full 20 minutes.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJason RobardsStella StevensDavid WarnerA hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.A couple of bad guys jump in a big pit to shoot at him, so Cable Hogue throws some big rattlesnakes at them to force them out.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsTim RobbinsGreta ScacchiFred WardA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?A movie studio executive receives a rattlesnake post card then finds that someone put a real rattlesnake in his SUV to scare him and/or bite him.
- DirectorBrice MackStarsLisa PelikanBert ConvyNina FochOstracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!Jennifer was once a Christian snake handler with the mental power to control the snakes but gave it up until some of her evil rich elite girls school classmates kill her kitten. Then it's showtime as she conjures snakes out of nowhere to kill off her enemies.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineVictor McLaglenIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.Imprisoned in the dungeon of the Kali Temple, a stronghold of the Thuggee cult, a British officer is whipped then threatened with being thrown into a pit full of snakes. Later the head Thuggee guru throws himself into the pit to kill himself.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamHenry WilcoxonThe man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.Cleopatra uses a venomous snake to kill herself.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczRouben MamoulianStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonRex HarrisonQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.Cleopatra commits suicide by asp bite, but in this one she puts her hand in a basket containing figs and a snake.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsDouglas FairbanksJulanne JohnstonSnitz EdwardsA recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.The Mongol Prince has a staff with an orb that has a snake inside it that can poke its head out and bite someone. He uses it to kill a man in order to demonstrate how a magic golden apple can bring a dead man back to life.
- DirectorJack StarrettStarsPeter FondaWarren OatesLoretta SwitTwo couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.Two rattlesnakes are put in the cupboard of a motor home to kill its four occupants.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsWoody HarrelsonJuliette LewisTom SizemoreTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.A dead Navaho man somehow conjures up a field full of rattlesnakes to bite and kill the people who killed him. I think that's what happened. Hard to say for sure.
- DirectorChris ColumbusStarsLogan LermanKevin McKiddSteve CooganA teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.Uma Thurman is Medusa, a Gorgon who has live snakes growing out of her head instead of hair. Anybody who looks at Medusa directly turns to stone.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsRoger MooreLois ChilesMichael LonsdaleJames Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.Bond is thrown into a pool and forced to fight a gigantic python or die, as a bunch of beautiful women stand around practicing their evil smiles.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsMiles O'KeeffeLisa FosterDavid BrandonMuscle-bound Ator and his mute East Asian sidekick travel from the ends of the earth to save his aged mentor from the evil, mustachioed Zor.AKA "Cave Dwellers"
As a human sacrifice to the gods, several women are thrown down into a pit full of human skulls and hissing and growling snakes. - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartPeter UstinovAldo RayThree Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.In this "Christmas Comedy" starring Humphrey Bogart, three escaped convicts bring Adolph, a pet "deadly poisonous snake" in a wicker box intending to use it to kill tyrannical Cousin Andre. After Bogart decides against the plan Andre comes in and finds the box. He takes it, insisting on knowing what's inside it thinking they're trying to steal something from him, then he goes into a room to open it and slams the door. After a long comic delay as the three men slowly discuss which one of them should "rush in and warn him" Bogart finally goes in but comes out immediately. When asked why he didn't tell him, he says "He knows already." The snake is never actually seen in the film by us, but it is described as an Eastern Coral Snake.
- DirectorTed WildeHarold LloydLewis MilestoneStarsHarold LloydJobyna RalstonWalter JamesA sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.Harold Lloyd picks up a stick without looking at it to fight off a man who is trying to rape a young woman. Unknown to Lloyd, the stick has a gopher snake wrapped around it. He waves the stick threateningly and is surprised when the attacker runs away, believing it was his ferocity and not the snake that scared him away. Then Lloyd accidentally touches the snake, which terrifies him too. He throws the stick onto the ground and we see a snake crawl away.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsGlenn FordJack LemmonAnna KashfiAn idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.A cowboy on a cattle drive picks up a rattlesnake and brings it to scare Jack Lemmon, who runs away screaming. Another cowboy picks it up with a stick and throws it. It gets tossed back and forth until it finally wraps around the neck of a cowboy and bites him on the throat. It's an unintentional weapon, but deadly nonetheless.
- DirectorMario OrfiniStarsTrudie StylerGregg HenryBill MoseleyGene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Unable to win her back, he decides to take revenge by locking Eva in her new apartment, inside which he has released a deadly mamba snake.A man is so upset that his mate broke up with him that he puts a Black Mamba in her windowless loft and locks her inside, hoping the snake will kill her.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsStrother MartinDirk BenedictHeather Menzies-UrichA college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.A mad scientist and venom expert puts a Black Mamba snake in a shower a man is using to try to kill him. He also traps another man in a basement with a giant snake.
- DirectorAndrew DavisStarsShia LaBeoufSigourney WeaverJon VoightA wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.A boy wishing to harm himself takes off his shoe and sock and holds his foot in front of a rattlesnake so it will bite him.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeAud Egede-NissenGertrude WelckerArch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.Evil criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse extracts venom from a snake and uses it to poison a woman.
- DirectorCornel WildeStarsCornel WildeGert van den BerghKen GampuDuring the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.A cobra snake is thrown into a ring of burning wood with no exit except the place where a tied up man's face has been placed, forcing the snake to bite him in the face to escape.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsJan-Michael VincentKay LenzSlim PickensIn 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.Greedy corporate bosses try to kill an independent trucker by putting a rattlesnake in his truck.
- DirectorArt NamesStarsLes TremayneJanet WoodBebe KellyA lonely old man who loves snakes starts killing his friends and the townsfolk--using his poisonous snakes--after they turn their backs on him.An old snake collector kills off his enemies with venomous snakes.
- DirectorWilliam Byron HillmanStarsMichael CallanJoanna PettetJames StacyA photographer plagued by horrific nightmares in which he kills the young female models he shoots is shocked to discover that there is a serial killer in his city who is targeting attractive women.A psycho-killer puts a rattlesnake in a garbage bag and puts the bag over a woman's head until she dies.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsCharles BronsonJack PalanceJames WhitmoreIn 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.Chato throws rattlesnakes at his enemy who is bitten on the face and dies.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJudith BrownRoberta CollinsJennifer GanAmerican women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.A woman convict tries to kill her cellmate with a snake that crawled through their cell window.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsDean MartinAlain DelonRosemary ForsythIn 1845 Texas, a Louisiana belle is courted by a wanted Spanish nobleman and a Texas brawling gunrunner but her suitors' passionate duel is interrupted by the cavalry and a Comanche attack.A Comanche medicine man performs a death ceremony with rattlesnakes intending to kill a young woman.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsTommy Lee JonesCate BlanchettEvan Rachel WoodIn 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.An Indian witch extracts rattlesnake venom and uses it in his witchcraft to kill.
- DirectorRichard RushStarsBruce WillisJane MarchRubén BladesA color-blind psychoanalyst is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that he begins having intense sexual encounters with.Bruce Willis opens his mailbox and finds a rattlesnake, put there to bite him.
- DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith BrownBeautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.A sadistic guard at a women's prison uses a cobra to torture female prisoners.
- DirectorHerbert ColemanStarsAudie MurphyJohn SaxonZohra LampertBanner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.Four murdering and raping escaped convicts tie up a woman and leave her lying next to a rattlesnake so it will kill her.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMel GibsonJodie FosterJames GarnerBret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.Maverick is tied up, sitting on a horse, with a noose around his neck tied to a tree branch, so that if the horse runs away he will hang to death. Just in case that doesn't work and he gets off the horse, his captors also drop a bag full of rattlesnakes on the ground below him to kill him.
- DirectorFrank Q. DobbsStarsJoshua BryantIrene KellyDavid S. Cass Sr.Somewhere in south west Texas, where a christian cult is said to have resided in the past, a deputy sheriff investigates a number of suspicious deaths.Devil cultists throw a man into a pit filled with rattlesnakes.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsSterling HaydenYvonne De CarloZachary ScottAfter vengeful Ben Thompson ambushes and kills Marshal Mark Fletcher with a shotgun, Deputy Marshal Clay Hardin pursues the Thompson gang.Apache Indians tie a man to stakes with rawhide that tightens as it dries, slowly pulling him closer to a rattlesnake that is also tied to a stake next to his head.
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsJeff BridgesKim BasingerRip TornIn 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.A box full of rattlesnakes is used to threaten people to talk, then it is dumped into a dark room full of people. Also, Nadine finds a rattlesnake in her bed put there to kill her.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsCharles RugglesLionel AtwillGail PatrickA monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.A man uses a severed snake head made into a device filled with snake venom that can bite and kill people.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsGeorge O'BrienIrene HerveyLeRoy MasonAn Easterner inherits a cattle ranch, only to discover that thousands of cattle have been stolen. He secretly signs on as a hired hand at his own ranch to discover who's stealing them.A man drops a rattlesnake onto the bed of a sleeping man to try to kill him.
- DirectorLarry G. SpanglerStarsFred WilliamsonCal BartlettBrenda VenusA black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.Joshua catches a live rattlesnake and throws if off a cliff onto a man who is immediately bitten by the snake and dies in minutes.
- DirectorElmo WilliamsStarsLloyd BridgesLee J. CobbMarie WindsorA group of travelers in the Southwest band together to search for gold on Indian burial grounds. Convict Ben Trask attempts to maintain order within the group as they are faced with greed and danger.A man shoots a rattlesnake then picks it up and uses its carcass to whip another man.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierDonald MacKenzieStarsPearl WhiteCrane WilburPaul PanzerPauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.A Gypsy woman catches a snake and hides it in a basket full of flowers that she gives to a woman hoping it will bite and kill her.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsWilliam HoldenCliff RobertsonVince EdwardsA US Army lieutenant colonel is tasked with forming an elite commando-style unit from crack Canadian troops and the dregs of the US Army.A rattlesnake is left under a Corporal's bedcovers as a prank, but one which could have had serious consequences.
- DirectorFrancis D. LyonStarsVictor MatureElaine StewartFaith DomergueAn ex-Confederate officer and his young daughter, traveling West, rescue two women survivors of an Indian attack.A man in a fight loses his gun then finds a rattlesnake in a cave. He picks up the snake and throws it at his enemy who followed him into the cave.
- DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsDaniel RadcliffeJuno TempleMax MinghellaIn the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his forehead.A man accused of murdering his girlfriend, grows devil horns and finds snakes around him that he can use as weapons.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsPaul Michael GlaserSusan HoganJohn ColicosA psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.A man being cured of his fear of snakes by an experimental therapy is eventually murdered by rattlesnake bite.
- DirectorR. John HughStarsLin McCarthyStephen CourtleighBerry Kroeger5 Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba.A man holds a snake in the face of a man who is afraid of snakes in order to terrorize him.
- DirectorJamie UysStarsN!xauMarius WeyersSandra PrinslooA comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.A man intentionally throws a rock at a snake on a branch to knock it down onto the head of his enemy.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsSean ConneryKim BasingerKlaus Maria BrandauerA S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.Barbara Carrera throws a snake through the open window of a man's car and he's so freaked out he crashes into a wall and dies.
- DirectorAndrew FlemingStarsRobin TunneyFairuza BalkNeve CampbellA newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.A high school girl witch conjures up thousands of snakes to torment another girl.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsJim KellyBill RoyRoberto ContrerasRobert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders. The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action, against bad men, bad girl, and bad animals.A villianous mobster locks people in a jail cell full of killer snakes to get rid of them.
- DirectorJose Flores SibalStarsRoger CalvinPerla BautistaEddie GarciaA village witch who controls poisonous serpents sends them out to murder her enemies.A snake woman commands snakes to kill the people who killed her parents.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGary CooperMari AldonRichard WebbAfter destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.Gary Cooper holds a rattlesnake up to the face of a man to torture him into talking.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsRobert KermanJanet AgrenIvan RassimovA young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.A cult leader uses assassins who put cobra venom on their poison darts to kill people.
- DirectorNicholas RayBudd SchulbergStarsBurl IvesChristopher PlummerChana EdenAn ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.An outlaw named Cottonmouth keeps a venomous Cottonmouth snake in his pocket and throws it at people he wants to die "of natural causes."
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesMarcel VarnelStarsEdmund LoweIrene WareBela LugosiWhen delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.Three men aim rifles at Chandu and his friends so Chandu turns the three rifles into snakes and the gunmen run away in terror.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsStockard ChanningJack NicholsonWarren BeattyTwo bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.Two bumbling idiots buy a rattlesnake planning on using it to kill the woman they live with but it dies before they can carry out their plan.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaul MassieDawn AddamsChristopher LeeDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.Hyde kills his rival by locking him in a room with a snake.
- DirectorJeff NicholsStarsMichael ShannonDouglas LigonBarlow JacobsSet in Arkansas, this poetic and powerful film directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) tracks a blood feud that erupts when two sets of half-brothers come to blows at their father's funeral.A man uses a Cottonmouth to kill his half brother's dog.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsSusan LanierRobert HoustonJohn SteadmanOn the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.A girl picks up a rattlesnake and stabs its fangs into the back of her brother's head.
- DirectorCurt SiodmakStarsBarbara PaytonLon Chaney Jr.Raymond BurrThe owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.Raymond Burr is fighting with a man in a jungle in the Amazon. He sees a snake on the ground so he knocks the man down next to it and the man is bitten and dies from snakebite.
- DirectorJing WongWai-Lun LamStarsJet LiChingmy YauJacky CheungAfter failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?A terrorist pulls dozens of snakes out of a bag and throws them at a woman who is then bitten.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsHarry CareyBetty MackDel GordonCowboy infiltrates an outlaw gang to expose their rackets, but after he's ordered to kidnap a young girl, the gang finds out who he really is.A rattlesnake is dumped out of a box into a cabin to kill a guy, but it kills a different guy by mistake.
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsLyn HardingRaymond MasseyAngela BaddeleyAfter her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery that involves a venomous snake that is dropped onto a woman in bed to kill her.
- DirectorRobert MooreStarsPeter FalkAlec GuinnessPeter SellersFive famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.A snake is put in Charlie Chan's bedroom to kill him.
- DirectorCarl SchenkelStarsDenzel WashingtonRobert TownsendJames FoxWhen police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.A snake is put in a man's hotel room to kill him.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsChristopher LeeRichard GreeneHoward Marion-CrawfordFu Manchu poisons and hypnotizes ten women to bring down his enemies, including Nayland Smith, with kisses of death.Fu Manchu kidnaps beautiful women then forces deadly snakes to bite them. The women are immune to the snake venom but they become deadly weapons who can kill men by kissing them on the lips with "the kiss of death." He also uses one of the snakes to kill a man since men are not immune to the snake venom.
- DirectorFernando WagnerStarsDavid DaLieAntonio GutiérrezAngélica MoralesA white hunter in South America falls in love with a native girl and must save her from becoming a virgin sacrifice.A Vicuni Indian pours a basket full of snakes into a pit covered with branches to make a trap for a man who is chasing them.
- DirectorLuca BercoviciStarsChris SarandonBrigitte BakoRichard TysonAndi joins her husband Tim on a tropical island to help him with the capturing of poisonous sea snakes for their venom. Her flagrant sensuality attracts the attention of hired hand Dak, and when Tim becomes bitterly obsessed with his faltering job, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair, which leads the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events.A woman releases a bunch of captive sea snakes into a tub and later pushes a man into the tub where he is bitten multiple times before he dies.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanDaryl DukeStarsJan-Michael VincentMarilyn HassettChief Dan GeorgeThe Westernized grandson of a shaman returns to the wilderness to learn more about his Native American heritage. When he encounters powerful evil spirits, he enlists the aid of his lover and a local chief to stop the spirits.The ghost of a Native American shaman conjures up a snake that she sends to bite another shaman.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsKurt RussellJason Scott LeeJason IsaacsA soldier trained from birth is deemed obsolete and dumped on a waste planet where he is reluctantly taken in by a community of defenseless, stranded wayfarers.A soldier throws his enemy into a huge snake pit to kill him.
- DirectorAlfred VohrerSamuel M. ShermanStarsHarald LeipnitzKlaus KinskiCarl LangeScotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.An evil doctor kills a woman with a snake and fills a room with snakes to terrify a woman to forcer her to do what he wants.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsWarner OlandKeye LukeGeorge BrasnoWhile visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.A snake is dropped onto Charlie Chan's bed to kill him.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsJean-Claude Van DammeLance HenriksenYancy ButlerA woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance.Jean-Claude Van Damme punches a rattlesnake in the face then makes a trap with it to kill one of the men who is hunting him.
- DirectorSeth MacFarlaneStarsSeth MacFarlaneCharlize TheronLiam NeesonAs a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his newly found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.Rattlesnake venom is put into a hollow-tipped bullet to make it even more lethal.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsKwok-Leung KamLin-Lin LiChun ChenA young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.A bullied man uses his pet snakes to kill his tormentors.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsRoger MooreYaphet KottoJane SeymourJames Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.A voodoo cult uses snakes to kill their prisoners. Bond finds a snake that was set loose in his bathroom to kill him.
- DirectorJag MundhraStarsDavid NaughtonIndia AllenGary HudsonDuring a desert retreat, a married couple cross paths with a murderous ex-convict and his partner in crime.A man is kidnapped and stranded in the desert where he finds a rattlesnake and puts it in a bag. He makes his way back home where he finds the kidnapper and tells him that he can find something he wants in the bag. The kidnapper opens the bag and gets snakebit.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsDennis QuaidSharon StoneStephen DorffA family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.Someone fills a house with snakes to terrorize a family.
- DirectorSteve YuStarsSteve AustinLouie BensonJoe CaseA fallen professional wrestling superstar battles his past demons in a struggle to reclaim his life and the family that has given up on him.Jake The Snake uses pythons against his wrestling opponents.
- DirectorStephen SommersStarsBrendan FraserRachel WeiszJohn HannahThe mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.In a 3-way snake-used-as-a-weapon scene, a re-incarnated ancient Egyptian princess holds a snake to the face of Brendan Fraser's brother in law, but Fraser stops her so she throws the snake at Fraser's face to kill him but he catches it. She tells one of her henchman to shoot him but Fraser throws the snake back into the face of the henchman first and kills him.
- StarsBilly ZaneTimothy DaltonRupert GravesPrincess Cleopatra becomes Egypt's Queen and has an out-of-wedlock son with the son-less Roman ruler Julius Caesar. Through two romances, she strives to protect Egypt from the Romans, and make her son the heir to Caesar's Roman Empire.Cleopatra uses a venomous snake to kill herself.
- DirectorJohn MiliusStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerJames Earl JonesMax von SydowA powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult.Thulsa Doom, the evil head of a murderous snake cult, turns his snakes into arrows and shoots them with a bow, killing whoever is struck by them. Then they turn back into snakes.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsPatrick SwayzeLiam NeesonAdam BaldwinTruman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.Snakeman is a Kentucky Hillbilly who drives his bus full of pet snakes to Chicago to use them in a battle between hillbillies and mobsters.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsPeter UstinovMia FarrowSimon MacCorkindaleAs Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?Somebody put a live cobra in Hercule Poirot's bathroom in a failed attempt to kill him.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJake GyllenhaalGemma ArtertonBen KingsleyA young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.The leader of the Hassansins can control venomous Vipers. He carries them under his coat and releases them out his sleeve to kill people. He sends a group of them to burrow through the sand then fly out and kill everybody.
- DirectorTom MankiewiczStarsDan AykroydTom HanksChristopher PlummerThe equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.As a human sacrifice in a cult ritual, a woman is thrown into a pool of water to be killed by an enormous Anaconda.
- DirectorAndrew DavisStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerJohn LeguizamoFrancesca NeriAfter his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible.Columbian guerrillas kill a man by forcing his mouth to stay open with a clamp and letting a snake crawl down his throat. He dies in about a minute.
- DirectorWilliam KattStarsBarry CorbinSam HuntingtonCaroline GoodallCorbin plays a fictional Menard County sheriff who uses country savvy and cowboy logic to straighten out his angry teen-aged grandson, Clay, a high school senior who can't seem to stay out of trouble.A teenage boy trying to rescue a girl puts a rattlesnake in the kidnappers' bag and when one of them opens it up, the snake springs out and bites him on the cheek.
- DirectorJim HensonStarsDavid BowieJennifer ConnellyToby FroudSixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.Jareth, The Goblin King, holds a crystal ball that turns into a snake that he throws at a young girl to warn her to forget about her stolen baby brother. The snake wraps around her neck, then turns into a scarf.
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsJohnny DeppPenélope CruzIan McShaneJack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.Blackbeard's daughter picks up a venomous snake and puts its fangs in Jack Sparrow's face, but leaves him unharmed.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsEddie RedmayneKatherine WaterstonDan FoglerGellert Grindelwald plans to raise an army of wizards to rule over non-magical beings. In response, Newt Scamander's former professor, Albus Dumbledore, seeks his help to stop him.Grindelwald shoots his wand and turns the reigns of a flying horse carriage into two giant fanged snakes which leap up into a man's face and send him flying.
- DirectorTed V. MikelsRay Dennis StecklerStarsJannina PoynterDavid O'HaraMacka FoleyA young woman newly arrived in a small town comes up against a crazed group of survivalists who have killed a party of motorcyclists in the desert. They capture and rape her, but she escapes and makes plans to take her vengeance on them.A woman is kidnapped, raped, then set free so she can be hunted by a group of militaristic survivalists. She kills them all and kicks their leader into a pit full of rattlesnakes, tossing him a gun and one bullet to kill himself with.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsBo SvensonAnita EkbergDonald PleasenceAn adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.A drug dealer pays a bellboy to put a deadly venomous snake into a man's suitcase. When the man opens the suitcase, the snake springs out at him, but he catches and kills the snake.
- DirectorChia-Liang LiuJackie ChanStarsJackie ChanHo-Sung PakLung TiA young martial artist is caught between respecting his pacifist father's wishes or stopping a group of disrespectful foreigners from stealing precious artifacts.A girl who sells snakes in an outdoor market joins a fight against corrupt foreigners by tossing a bag full of snakes at a several men aiming their rifles. The men are terrified of the snakes and drop the rifles, allowing the girl's comrades to run up and grab the rifles, knowing that her snakes are harmless.
- DirectorRobert ClouseStarsBruce LeeJohn SaxonJim KellyA Shaolin martial artist travels to an island fortress to spy on an opium lord - who is also a former monk from his temple - under the guise of attending a fighting tournament.Bruce Lee finds a venomous cobra left on top of an entryway to guard it, so he catches the snake and stuffs it into a bag. Later he releases the cobra into a room to scare out the men working there so he can enter the room.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsChristopher LeeHans SöhnkerHans NielsenSherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.Sherlock Holmes finds a hidden compartment under a mummy case where a valuable necklace is hidden. A snake has been put inside the compartment to attack anyone who tries to take the necklace.
- DirectorFelix VillarChi-Lien YuStarsAlex Tzi-Fei LungRosemarie GilEtang DischerA Kung Fu master battles Bruka the evil snake queen with her army of snakes and savage little people.This is a sequel to Devil Woman, 1970. The same woman, born with Medusa hair and the power to control snakes, continues to use snakes to kill the people who killed her family. Bruka, the Queen of Evil, uses snakes to kill kidnapped female virgins in bondage during every full moon.
- DirectorFranz Josef GottliebStarsJoachim FuchsbergerBrigitte GrothumPinkas BraunA Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.A man opens a package delivered to him to find a snake inside a box, put there to kill him.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsAnton DiffringErika RembergYvonne MonlaurDr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.A fugitive plastic surgeon who runs a circus takes in beautiful facially-scarred female criminals, gives them perfect new faces, then turns them into circus stars. When they threaten to leave the circus, he kills them. One of his stars, angry that he took away her top billing, threatens to expose his criminal past, so he puts a snake in her trailer while she is taking a shower, to kill her. It wraps around her ankles and she screams, then we see no more. Later we see her alive and kicking. All she tells the doctor is "Fortunately, I screamed." and we are left to assume that someone came and saved her from the snake.