[adrotate banner=”1″]Hisss, from director Jennifer Lynch (Boxing Helena) is an upcoming big budget (by comparison) Indian lady snake flick that is making the rounds of buzzness on the internets. These snakelady films were pretty popular back in the day (sorry I can’t give better dates but all my reference books are packed up) both in India and outside the region (Thai, Cambodian, and Hong Kong cinema has plenty of snake lady films as well) Though there hasn’t been much movement on the snake lady front besides the microbudget Indian horror genre, this larger funded, Westerner directed effort might spawn a whole new mess of snake lady films slithering all the way to a theater near you (or more likely, a DVD store near you)

FX artist Robert Kurtzman is who to thank for the snakelady full body makeup effects.

Starring: Irrfan Khan, Mallika Sherawat, Jeff Douchette, Divya Dutta, Raman Trikha.
Mallika Sherawat is probably best known in the west for starring with Jackie Chan in The Myth, in India she is known for her great body, even people like me who only casually browse Indian film message boards looking for information on obscure junk know about her.

Trailer:

Link to the Official site, and the synopsis:

The Curse of the Cobra Goddess – anytime man desecrates or violates the cobra, they are doomed to suffer the petrifying curse of the snake woman, of death and infertility. Only respect and worship can keep the population safe and the women fertile.

Over 4000 years ago the inhabitants of the Indus Valley sculpted the image of the shape shifting snake. These half cobras, half human creatures were said to inhabit an awesome, mysterious temple, made of material unknown to mankind, deep within the jungles, far, far away in the legendary spice forests of the Malabar Coast. Children grew up hearing about the story recounted to their grandfathers, by their forefathers about an ancestor, who had journeyed to the edge of the world, and came back to recount a frightening story about the Snake Goddess and her mate…. and from here the legend travelled across India, and the far east along the silk route – passed on from generation to generation for thousands of years until this day.

It is the year 2008, an American man, named George, packing high tech gear, and evil intentions, makes the arduous journey into the heart of the forbidden forest. He captures a male cobra the size of a large python when he’s at his weakest, while mating. Little does he realize when they embark on testing this mysterious creature in their high-tech lab, what horror and destruction awaits him….