How the Chinese hurt snakes Calamity of Snakes is one of the two most vivid animalistic horrors of snake orientation (the second is also the Hong Kong Killer Snakes from the notorious Shaw brothers). However, CoS, unlike its perverted-dramatic counterpart, is a tape much lighter, more dynamic and heaped with comedic scenes of average lousyness, so that the “horror” is terrifying except for its farce, and attempts to hook serious environmental problems in the film are completely unnecessary and obviously unsuccessful.
The plot, which is so primitive for nothing, eventually ceases to recall itself and is completely reduced to observing the clouds of these most scaly ropes of various lengths and thicknesses. In fact, just for them, the underbelly, it is worth looking at. Snake population does not lend itself to calculus at all: in fact, kilograms and centners of heterogeneous wriggling biomass fall into the frame, in which Chinese “actors” squeal and flounder amusingly. Naturally, like almost any exploitation, this one also does not hesitate to slide into absurdity and delirium, but the brutal enthusiasm of the creators and the “industrial volumes” of all sorts of bastards used by them are unwittingly impressive.
The main characters on the set had really tight (not the Chinese, of course, but the unfortunate creeping “aggressors”). For snakes, a complete and irrevocable trinde is arranged here: they are crushed, chopped, chopped with shovels, blades and an excavator, torn apart, unearthed, fresh, eaten by mongoose, strangled with ropes, poisoned with some rubbish, burned with napalm, and naturally eaten (don’t be lost). Thus, the screen periodically reigns a real massacre, but it is understandable: tea shot not Americans with their pixel anacondas. Here everything, from and to, is captured in a natural way without prophesy and other things not needed in good old Hong Kong things, because of which the film is exceptional for entertaining movies animal meat grinder. From the position of a “civilized Caucasian” or an activist of the “greens” one can blame, but in the cultural and traditional aspect such excesses are generally not condemnable, they are born in Asia with its alien mentality. And with sufficient tolerance of perception, it is worth admitting that, minus a certain amount of useless chatter, CoS nowhere dynamites its potential viewer and honestly gives everything that promises, then curiosity to a large-scale and meaty snake of exoticism is guaranteed to be satisfied.
As a result, we have a rather spectacular and brutal horror attraction, which, however, greatly sums up the mentioned tightness in the strong grip of exploitation. A lover of it, however, will appreciate the product.
5 out of 10