"Fangs of the Hood"

Films: Snake Outta Compton (2018)

Alias: Mac Guffin

Type: Man-Made

Location: Civilized Area/Underground

Height/Weight: Up to twice that of an average bus.

Affiliation: Neutral

Summary: Of all the giant killer snake films we've encountered, none will be quite as ridiculous as this one. It's got everything from gangbangers, nerds, mutants, rap, and of course, a huge serpent out for blood.

History: In the slums, a scrawny nerd named Vurkel has constructed a growth ray that he tests on one of his pet vipers. At first, it doesn't do much other than give the female snake a glowing red stripe. But when the snake escapes into the city, it doubles in size with every thing it eats. Soon, any and all gang rivalries and/or whatever other problems everyone was facing are made moot when the serpent grows up to be bigger than a person. Even worse, Vurkel is slowly being affected by a special serum he made that ties to the snake...

Notable Kills: Eats its mate, bursts through a guy's stomach, and smashes a person with someone it was chewing on.

Final Fate: After Vurkel and the snake have sex (believe us, everyone around them is sick at the sight), they briefly team up before the snake decides to go do its own thing. It is only brought down when someone manages to inject it with a deadly serum from the inside, blowing it to blue goopy pieces. As for Vurkel, after fully becoming a snake man and turning other people into snake men, he has a change of heart, and teams up with a similarly mutated guy so that they can become superheroes who fight ninjas. Needless to say, it's not a bad payoff.

Powers/Abilities: The snake grows with everything it eats, and it can survive all sorts of abuse, such as getting punched around the room, electrocuted by a metal pipe, or even a whole bus explosion.

Weakness: Heavy artillery, though it is only truly vulnerable from the inside.

Scariness Factor: 3-The CGI is definitely not the kind that warrants a whole lot of scares, and the sheer absurdity of the plot often detracts from it as well, but this snake does the most it can. After all, it looks like and is colored like a demon, it's got FOUR FANGS, and it remembers every slight people have committed against it. Also, it has no problem with mating with someone with snake DNA. That's just...gross in this context.

Trivia: -This snake is very clearly a recolored eyelash pit viper. Named for the formations above its eyes, it is a venomous snake from Central/South America. Some legends say that the eyelash viper winks before biting you, but snakes cannot blink.

-This film was directed by Hank Braxtan, who would later go on to do yet another crazy yet cool premise in the form of "Dragon Soldiers" in 2020.


Image Gallery


You're not you when you're hungry.

From kinda-humble starts.

JESUS!

Snake in the sheets-I mean shi-nevermind.

True nerd rage incoming!

Thunder of Average-Sized Serpent!
Have a Snickers.

This bodes well.

"Hello from the other siiiiide!"


I want to look away, buuuut...

Oh, for God's sake...
Rattle-Pytho-Viper Outta Compton.

When your Uber tries to pass you by.


Gonna need more than just eyelids to keep that light from blinding us all.

Sometimes, serpent or not, you have to stop and think about what got you into this.

Rattlers are also a problem.

Steve Urkel's final moments.

The aisle needs more than cleanup.

Not since Rattlesnake Jake...

For once, FOX and CNN team up to make sense of this.

Still better than Marvel's New Warriors.


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