{"id":1847,"date":"2009-02-15T17:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2009-02-16T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:31:12","slug":"snake-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/15\/snake-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Snake Curse<\/strong> [aka She Zhou] (HK-2004; dir. Cheung Kwok-Kuen)<\/p>\n<p>Among Asian filmmakers, the Japanese do Weird S**t well and the result is often rather extreme. Moreover, their version of <em>Weird<\/em> tends toward the seriously disturbing. For outright cheesy-fun Weirdness, though, it&#8217;s hard to go past Hong Kong cinema.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a HK film about giant flying snakes, magic, errant science, kung fu, half-human \/ half serpent femme fatales&#8230; and who knows what else?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1848\" title=\"snakecurse\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snakecurse.jpg\" alt=\"snakecurse\" width=\"348\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snakecurse.jpg 348w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snakecurse-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2010. In order to save a drug company in financial freefall, a scientist undertakes illegal experiments intended to find a vaccine against leukaemia. What he does, in a burst of B-flick maniacal scientific logic, is gene-splice a python with a human being. Why not? It might work &#8230; Naturally, the results are not what he hoped for, and the downtown area of Hong Kong soon becomes the favourite hunting ground of gigantic and terribly dangerous creatures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Director  Cheung Kwok-Kuen has previously perpetrated the ghost flicks <em>Ghost Meets You<\/em> and <em>Ghost Promise<\/em> and, though the film sports a production date of 2004, it is only now about to be released to a theatrical run in its home town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trailer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a772qLX0QZ4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a772qLX0QZ4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreadcentral.com\/news\/30388\/chinese-snake-curse-trailer-insanity\">DreadCentral<\/a> via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong movie database (<a href=\"http:\/\/hkmdb.com\/db\/movies\/view.mhtml?id=11231&amp;display_set=eng\" target=\"_blank\">HKMDB<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snake Curse [aka She Zhou] (HK-2004; dir. Cheung Kwok-Kuen) Among Asian filmmakers, the Japanese do Weird S**t well and the result is often rather extreme. Moreover, their version of Weird tends toward the seriously disturbing. For outright cheesy-fun Weirdness, though, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/15\/snake-curse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,51,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}