FilmGothic Monster & Creature Folk Horror

The Reptile1966

Name: The Reptile
Genre: Gothic, Monster & Creature, Folk Horror, Classic Monsters
Released: 1966-03-06
Rating: 6.3

“Half woman - half snake!”

Directed by John Gilling

6.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 6.1Rotten Tomatoes 71%TMDB 6.1

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Year

1966

Runtime

90 min

The premise

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.

Horror Vault's take

When a young couple arrives in a fog-draped Cornish village to settle a family estate, they find tight-lipped locals and a string of unexplained deaths linked to a peculiar venom. Their only ally is the troubled daughter of a secretive, domineering scholar — a woman whose past hides a burden far darker than anyone dares speak aloud. Hammer Studios brings its signature Gothic atmosphere to this serpentine tale of exotic curses transplanted onto English soil, where the real horror lies as much in what people refuse to say as in what lurks in the shadows.

Content: Creature Violence, Depictions Of Patriarchal Abuse And Control, Snake-Related Imagery