Wordiezett So much average

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Sam Panico Satan himself releases snakes on a small town, all to get back at the ancestor of St. Patrick. If this sentence makes you say, "And then?" you are the person that this movie was made for.The majority of director Bob Claver's work is on the small screen. So if this feels like a TV movie to you, that's fine. Is that even a bad thing? Not in these parts.Father Tom Farrow (Fritz Weaver, Creepshow, Demon Seed) has lost his faith. His town? It's getting a new dog track. And then the devil makes all the snakes go crazy! He teams up with Dr. Maggie Sheridan (Gretchen Corbett, Let's Scare Jessica to Death) and herpetologist Dr. Paul Hendricks to save his town before its too late.This is the debut of Christina Applegate. Her mother, Nancy Priddy, also appears in the film.It was shot by Dean Cundy (Halloween), so there are some moments of artistic flourish despite the low budget. There's also a scene where a snake gets its head shot off that had me fall on the floor in a fit of hysterics.Honestly, I've never seen a movie that somehow rips off Jaws and 1970's occult cinema at the same time. It also has some elements of rural backwoods melodrama, so if you like that sort of thing, this would be the movie for you. Also - a drunken priest! I'm sure here's an IMDB search list for that!

trashgang This flick here still unavailable on DVD as I am writing this was made in the heydays of horror. But what this film does is showing us how not to make a horror. It's hard to believe with a cast like this that this is really a turkey. A snake is supposed to be Satan and terrorises a town. Looks promising but it's so low on everything and really has cheesy effects that I would classify it under a big failure. Bob Claver, the director in fact never made another movie, he was more into series. But the direction I could dig but the storyline and effects were laughable. In the beginning when the snake attacks on a train you could easily spot the glass partition between the snake and the victim, and it gets funnier when you see the snake hitting the glass. Further on you only see the bitemarks of the snake on swollen faces. The acting was okay, face it, big names from the genre were in it, Fritz Weaver and Gretchen Corbett of many famous horror flicks. But why most people are hunting the US VHS down is for the performance of the 10 year old Christina Applegate, here in her first role ever. And you will recognize her immediately due her eyes.Jaws Of Satan is only worth watching for Christina fans or for the lovers of bad horror flicks. maybe some will want to see Gretchen walking around in her nudies but it's clean edited with nothing to see. It doesn't deliver scariness or blood, it's a lot of blah blah and you really must see the cheesy ending.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

HumanoidOfFlesh In this legendary trashy flick called "Jaws of Satan" the priest played by Fritz Weaver battles Satan in a form of a giant cobra snake.I must say that "Jaws of Satan" has to be one of the most idiotic horror films of 80's.It mixes the theme from "The Exorcist" with the-nature-run-amok plot in the vein of "Jaws" or "Grizzly".All the death scenes in "Jaws of Satan" look exactly the same.Poor victim gets bitten by a reptile,screams and falls down.On a train.In the forest.The acting is passable and the photography by Dean Cundey is professional."Jaws of Satan" marks the big-screen debut of Christina Applegate.5 out of 10.For 80's horror completists only.

zardoz-13 The best thing about "Jaws of Satan" aka "King Cobra" are the snakes. This bottom of the barrel horror movie grafts together the plot from "Jaws" and "The Exorcist." Satan slithers into a rural Alabama town where a race dog track is going to open and starts killing the residents. Seems that the hooded cobra has eyes for Fritz Weaver's doubting Catholic priest. Gretchen Corbett plays a m.d. who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery. Veteran character actor Norman Lloyd has a brief role as an older priest. This movie flopped big-time, and like somebody else said here, the director Bob Claver made this his only theatrical film. Not bad enough to be funny, just bad enough to be bad. When I was a TV news reporter working in Columbus, Mississippi, I got to interview Weaver and a couple of the crew while they were making this dogie across the line in Eutaw, Alabama. As a matter of fact, Eutaw had had a dog racing track. Most of the film was shot on location, too, and that antebellum house is the real deal. What I most remember about reporting on this movie was the snakes. They used real snakes and they didn't put Plexiglas between the actors and the snakes, because the snake wrangler somehow convinced them not to worry. Anyway, a real stinker. Again, like somebody else said, the rattlesnake in the bathtub was a letdown scene. All the shots of the snakes still look great, especially the king cobra's close-up. Talk about a snake-bit movie.