A Guide to the Amphibians
and Reptiles of California
Snakes Used for Food or Medicine in Movies
| This is an alphabetical list of movies in this category for those who want to browse by category instead of by the main list. You can see more pictures and read a description of the snake scenes by following the title link. Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film. |
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| Bad Girls (1994) Saloon girls on the lam are startled by a rattlesnake, so one of them shoots it and they eat it for dinner. |
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| Capricorn One (1977) A hungry astronaut, lost in the desert and chased by helicopters, hides in a cave where he finds a rattlesnake, kills it, and eats it. |
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| Chato's Land (1972) Chato kills a rattlesnake with a knife, skins it, cuts off the rattle, and wraps the rattle up in the skin, putting the ball in his pocket. When it dries, it becomes a musical rattle which he gives to his son. |
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| Dark Tide (1994) We see lots of sea snakes in this movie that are collected from the ocean and taken home to extract their venom which will be sold for medical research. |
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| Eaten Alive! (1980) Cannibals eat live snakes. |
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| End of Days (1999) Devil-worshippers use the blood of a rattlesnake to feed a newborn baby to claim it for Satan. |
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| Eva Nera (1976) Eva and her girlfriend go to an outdoor snake restaurant and watch a man skin a live snake and cook it for their lunch. |
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| Flypaper (1997) A guy cooks snake meat on his outdoor grill and milks their venom to make antivenom.. |
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| The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) A Kalahari bushman kills a cobra for food and for its skin to make a pouch. |
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| Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) Live snakes, frogs, and dried fingers are tossed into a witch's potion. |
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| Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984) A python full of eels is cooked for dinner. |
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| Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016) Two men eat at a snake restaurant. One gets bitten by his lunch. |
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| The Killer Snakes (She sha shou) (1975) A man working in a restaurant in China cuts open snakes and drains their bile into a cup for the customers to drink. |
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| Lonesome Dove (1989) Rattlesnakes are dinner for cowboys and for pigs. |
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| The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu makes a mind-control serum of sacred herbs and reptiles, including a Burmese Python. |
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| The Naked Prey (1965) A hungry man pursued by African tribesmen finds a snake, hacks it up, and eats it raw. |
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| Silent Tongue (1993) We see rattlesnakes in the background and a Native American woman roasts one on a stick and eats it. |
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| Soldier Blue (1970) A woman who lived with Indians cooks some snake meat and feeds it to a wounded soldier. |
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| Stop Loss (2008) A soldier on leave picks up a rifle and shoots a rattlesnake to save his buddy. Then, like true Texans, they barbecue it and eat it. |
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| The Terror Within (1989) One of the last surviving humans on earth catches a rattlesnake in the desert and slices it open for food. |
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| Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) A cowboy decapitates a rattlesnake. A nun shakes its rattles to scare off soldiers.Then they eat it. |
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| The Virgin Spring (1960) A shaman in the woods gives a woman a dried snake as a cure for her anguish. This is a Bergman movie, so she's going to need a lot more than that.... |
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