leeper@ahuta.UUCP (leeper) (02/11/85)
SPASMS
A film review by Mark R. Leeper
Oliver Reed plays a philanthropic industrialist who is telepathically
linked, a la THE EYES OF LAURA MARS, to a supernatural snake the size of a
small traffic jam. He brings it from a South Sea island called The Gate of
Hell to Los Angeles where it escapes and rampages. When the snake's papier
mache' head bites people, they blow up like the Michelin tire man. We see
mercifully little of the snake and much too much of the rest of the cast.
Eventually Reed blinds the snake by sticking his thumb in its eye, giving
his psychiatrist, Peter Fonda, a chance to machine gun the serpent. And,
you know, some films aren't good enough to make it to cable.
Mark R. Leeper
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