CAST:
Ray Barrett (Harry Spalding), Noel Willman
(Dr Franklyn), Jennifer Daniel (Valerie Spalding), Jacqueline Pearce
(Anna Franklyn), Michael Ripper (Tom Bailey), John Laurie (Mad Peter
Crockett), Marne Maitland (Malay)
Director – John Gilling, Screenplay – John Elder [Anthony Hinds],
Producer – Anthony Nelson Keys, Photography – Arthur Grant, Music – Don
Banks, Music Supervisor – Philip Martell, Special Effects – Bowie
Films, Makeup – Roy Ashton, Production Design – Bernard Robinson.
Production Company – Hammer/Seven-Arts.
Harry Spalding, a captain in the Royal
Grenadiers, inherits a cottage in a small Cornish village after his
brother Charles dies in mysterious circumstances. He moves into the
cottage with his wife Valerie. Harry discovers that several locals have
been killed by mysterious snake bites. This is also found to have been
the cause of Charles’s death. The origin of the snake killings appears
to rest with Dr Franklyn who lives in the village mansion. As Harry
investigates, he discovers that these are being caused by Franklyn’s
daughter Anna who was abducted by a snake cult that Franklyn was
researching in Borneo and that she now periodically transforms into a
snake creature.
