7 fun and scary snake movies

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

You will see a variety of reptiles: insidious, wise and even talking.

1. Indiana Jones: In Search of the Lost Ark

• USA, 1981.
• Adventure, action movie.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 4.

Famed archaeologist Indiana Jones sets out in search of the sacred Ark of the Covenant. But he should hurry: the Nazis are also hunting for the relic, because Adolf Hitler himself wants to get it.

To make the fearless hero of Harrison Ford look a little more human, the creators endowed him with a funny weakness - herpetophobia. Viewers learn about this in the very first part of the famous franchise: at some point, the characters find themselves in a temple, the entire floor of which is teeming with poisonous snakes, which Indiana is terribly afraid of.

2. Anaconda

• USA, Brazil, Peru, 1997.
• Adventure, horror, thriller.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 4, 8.

A group of adventurers goes in search of lost Indian tribes to make a movie about them. They do not yet suspect that their strange guide is obsessed with the idea of catching a giant anaconda.

In Russia, the film directed by Luis Llosa is known and loved much more than abroad. The creators gave the main role to Jennifer Lopez, who was just taking her first steps in the cinema, and one of the minor characters was played by a completely unknown Owen Wilson.

A few years after the release, the picture received several sequels, which were dealt with by other authors. But already in the second part, the quality dropped dramatically, and the third went straight to TV.

3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

• UK, USA, 2002.
• Adventure, fantasy.
• Duration: 161 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

In his second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter is again in danger, this time even more serious. The students, one by one, turn into numb statues, and the boy himself from time to time hears a strange and terrible voice, inaccessible to everyone else.

It can hardly be called a spoiler (after all, the film is almost 20 years old) the fact that a giant snake, a basilisk, was responsible for the outrage that took place in the castle. The author of the book, J. K. Rowling, borrowed the image of a monster entirely from medieval legends. By the way, the basilisk from the picture is not computer graphics, but an animatronic doll. The funny thing is that the special effects specialists only had to make the head of the monster.

4. The Jungle Book

• UK, USA, 2016.
• Fantasy, drama, adventure, family.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Found Mowgli, who grew up with wolves, vowed to kill the stern tiger Sherkhan. However, his foster family and friends, as well as a good half of the jungle, stand up to protect the boy.

Having launched a pipeline of animated-game remakes, Disney could not do without a live version of the 1967 Jungle Book. The film was entrusted to the father of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, John Favreau, and it paid off: the tape became a hit and earned praise from critics.

And from the canon of Rudyard Kipling this time they departed quite far. In particular, the python Kaa became a female character, and Scarlett Johansson herself voiced the heroine with her velvet voice.

5. Snake

• South Africa, USA, 2017.
• Thriller.
• Duration: 85 minutes.
• IMDb: 4, 5.

A married couple decides to diversify their married life and get out into nature. But as a result, they remain in a cramped and closed tent one on one with a black mamba - one of the most dangerous snakes.

Admittedly, the actors in Amanda Evans' thriller are playing badly. But the snake looks very frightening, and the plot intrigue - which of the pair will get the antidote - makes you nervous.

6. Mowgli

• UK, USA, 2018.
• Fantasy, drama, adventure.
• Duration: 104 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 5.

Boy Mowgli grew up in a wolf pack in the jungle. The inhabitants of the forest accept him as their own - everyone except the evil tiger Sher Khan. But soon the child will have to learn that much greater dangers can await him in the jungle. One of them is his own origin.

Andy Serkis's version, unlike Favreau's project, was created without looking at the family audience. The movie really turned out to be more adult and even scary, but at the same time closer to the book by Rudyard Kipling. In addition, in the Disney film, animals were drawn from scratch, and Serkis used motion capture technology.

As for Kaa, Andy picked up Favreau's idea and also changed his gender to female, and Cate Blanchett was called to voice the character. Therefore, the two versions turned out to be very similar, and even famous Hollywood divas speak for the snakes.

7. They crawl after you

• USA, 2019.
• Thriller, drama.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 4.

A patriarchal community living in a forest near the Appalachians practices strange rituals with snakes. In the meantime, the shepherd's daughter is to be betrothed, but is already pregnant with another youth expelled from the commune. When cult members find out about this, trouble is bound to happen.

The film by aspiring directors Brittany Poulton and Dan Madison Savage belongs to a new generation of horror films in which the main thing is not the plot, but the uncomfortable atmosphere. At the same time, quite famous actors are filmed in the film: the star of "Handsome Boy" Caitlin Deaver and the incomparable Olivia Colman.