Since my original choice needs to be saved for October, let me go with plan B.
In this case, it is plan Ssssss (but not that Film) ...
In a small Town (there are like 7 people), he comes in once a week to show off his snakes.
The Town is full of strange people.
The creepiest is the Brother-Sister duo who apparently want to be with the School Teacher.
No, really.
Brother- She's mine!
Sister- She's been yours for a while now. She's ours now.
Wednesday is Snakey Bender's Day. He shows up to buy his stuff and then has a 'Concert' with his drinking buddy.
Sister- She's been yours for a while now. She's ours now.
Translation- they play John Phillip Sousa really loud and dance.
Oh, and Sousa (plus other Big Band Music) is the Soundtrack. Enjoy!
On top of that, he visits the Teacher from earlier and...let's her put a snake on top of her.
They show it all in silhouette, which is either A) artistic or B) implying something gross.
We later see actual snakes on her (not the one in this Scene mind you), so she wasn't afraid of snakes IRL.
After spending half of the Movie setting things up, we now get to the revenge part.
Basically, everything goes wrong for him, including his snake Lucifer (the Teacher's favorite) being killed, his friend gets married and cancels their 'concert' & he finds out that the Teacher won't let him come over (and also doesn't love him).
Bonus bit of creepy- the Brother-Sister duo blackmail her...and go inside. You can infer the rest.
So yeah, he starts killing people, but decides to keep the Bride alive...for now.
Since he has a single gun (and nobody else does), this works.
He even kills Large Marge. Yep, that Actress plays the creepy Sister.
Since it is the '70s, he gets away with the murders as the Film just stops abruptly...
A fun, if very off-putting Film. I haven't watched a ton of Hicksploitation, to be fair. That said, this still feels...sleazier and creepier all around, no.
Even when Bender is killing the people, he has them partially undressed. He has the Preacher rub a fish all over himself, which has got to be someone's fetish out there, no?
It is also a very '70s thing to make the whole Film a weird Character Piece on a guy named 'Snakey Bender.' Could you imagine that today done by someone not trying to be a Grindhouse Film? Not a chance, right?
J.K. Simmons is Snakey Bender!
The snake stuff as a whole is pretty tame. So much is just implied, since, you know, snakes are poisonous and can kill you. They don't cover this up as well as other Films do.
Fans of the weird and sleazy will enjoy this one, just don't expect the more fantastical stuff to happen. Oh, and be kind to the Snakey Benders in your life- or else!
A sleazy slice of the 1970s- or at least what they though life was like. Nobody actually lived like this, right? Right?!?
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