The Serpent Warriors

The Serpent Warriors seemingly owns its existence to Calamity of Snakes, taking its fair share of footage from the former to create this lowest of the lows Indiana Jones knock-off. It's an American-Hong Kong cinematic oddity that's cursed to be confined to a grotty VHS transfer for the remainder of time and exactly the kind of mess that you'd expect from a film created by three sources, each with their own plot and characters. But could you really turn down a movie in which Eartha Kitt plays the queen of a snake cult? Outside of Kitt as snake priestess, the best thing this re-edit adds to the proceedings is a jazzy, upbeat score by John Lee Sanders, otherwise, the American sequences are mostly plodding, barely-visible confusion. Still, it's one of those fascinatingly odd films that could only come from the money-grubbing world of psychotronic filmmaking, in which unravelling the story is just as compelling as the film itself. Ultimately, The Serpent Warriors is a scattershot, barely coherent mess that only the more hardened exploitation fanatics will even be able to sit through.