1973 SSSSSS Snake Horror Movie Dirk Benedict, Strother Martin, Heather Menzies

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In 1973, I was 9 years old and my mom took my brother, friends, and I to see SSSSSS the body horror snake and mongoose film at the movie theater...
ssssss 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.
The film's executive producers were Richard Zanuck and David Brown, who went on to produce Jaws.
This episode was ripped from MeTV Svengoolie and if you watch closely, you might even see him make an appearance.

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