Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ophidiophobia is the extreme fear of snakes...and someone with this affliction would likely freak out at seeing these reptiles. So it's really important that you do NOT watch it if you have this fear, as the film is chock full of the beasties!!While the film sure sounds like one of the typical Devil worshiping films of the 70s (and there were a lot), it's more a film about snakes...snakes being controlled by a Cobra-like Devil snake! Yes, you heard it...a Devil snake! This nasty makes other snakes into super-aggressive jerks intent on killing folks. What follows is a whole lotta pseudo-religious nonsense about these snakes all coming because the Devil has it out for a rather dim priest (Fritz Weaver)...and has for many generations.So is it any good? Well, it's not quite as mind-blowingly bad like a few of the Devil movies of the era...in fact, there really isn't a lot that's devilish about most of the film...it's mostly just snakes popping out and folks reacting in terror. Some of this is a bit dumb--such as the sheriff going into a business with a snake that is loose and he's only armed with a .38 (you gotta be one incredible shot to do this...as well as being quite stupid) as well as the hero magically knowing his lady friend is being attacked by a snake and arriving with a snake stick...but HOW did he know this was happening???!!! Did he have ESP?! And where did that rapist come from and what did he have to do with ANYTHING?! In fact, a lot of the film doesn't make any sense now that I think about it....and my score of 3 might just be a bit charitable!

Fritz Weaver stars in this supernatural thriller as Father Tom Farrow, whose parish is in a rural Alabama town that is about to have a dog track open up soon, but unfortunately a deadly king cobra has escaped from a train where three mysterious deaths occurred, and more in town, bringing in the interest of a doctor(played by Gretchen Corbett) and a herpetologist(played by Jon Korkes) who must join forces with the priest in order to defeat this devilish threat, as this is no ordinary snake, but is in fact Satan... Good cast cannot save this flatly directed film that is devoid of suspense, though is almost endearingly campy. A young Christina Applegate co-stars. Once obscure film is now available on a double-feature Blu-ray from Scream Factory, and has a fine HD transfer at least, though the on-screen title is "King Cobra", as is the theatrical trailer. "Jaws Of Satan" is a much better title!

This movie is never really sure if it wants to be one of those, "Nature is going to totally kill you" movies or a "Satan is behind everything" movie. So it tries to be both and we aren't really sure who our protagonist is, the drunken Priest or the Dashing Herpatologist.So there's a town where an evil demonic snake takes control of all the other snakes and start randomly biting people. But the Snake is really Satan, trying to get the last of the priests from the line that drove him out of Ireland. Or something. If you were confused, so were the directors and writers.The Jaws element is that they are keen to open a dog racing track even though people in the town are being randomly bitten by snakes.The movie is kind of a meandering mess, ending in a cave where the drunken priest confronts Satan-snake... and frankly, it's kind of a letdown. I take back what I've said about all the over the top CGI sequences in movies, at least they have something going on.

During the 1970's and into the early 80's movie viewers were routinely given the opportunity to see the latest "Nature running amok" film where some animal/mammal/fish starts to pester decent folks and when the few courageous people try to stop it they run into bureaucrats who don't want to be bothered. This story is about Satan that has taken the shape of the King Cobra and after getting loose from on board a train it pops up in a small Alabama town where the snake is trying to track down Father Tom Farrow (Fritz Weaver) whose ancestors were druids. The Cobra is able to control the local rattlesnakes and make them start acting aggressively and biting people. Doctor Maggie Sheridan (Gretchen Corbett) who works at the hospital is suspicious of all the snakebite victims and some of the wounds look stranger than usual. She calls a snake expert in to investigate and Dr. Paul Hendricks (Jon Korkes) flies in. *****SPOILER ALERT*****After more victims are found Maggie and Paul try to persuade Mayor Grady Thorpe (Jack Gordon) to let the townsfolk be aware of what is happening but he says no and a successful businessman named Matt Perry (Bob Hannah) who has a new business opening starts to call the shots. This film was directed by Bob Claver who is a very respectable television director but this is the only theatrical film that he directed. As I started to watch this film I started to think that this was made for television but I double checked and it was released in theaters. The whole look of the film has T.V. movie of the week written all over it. No style to the filmmaking at all and in certain scenes as it looks to fade out I kept expecting a commercial to come on. This was trying to capitalize on the successes of films like "Jaws", "Orca", "Food of the Gods" and even "Grizzly" but those at least had an enemy that truly spooked viewers but this fails on that level. I had to laugh at the actor who was obviously separated by glass from the cobra, the glass was dirty. You couldn't miss it. For you trivia buffs out there Christina Applegate makes her film debut here and actress Nancy Priddy who plays her mother is actually her real mother! Silly and unscary film tries to capitalize on the success of this genre but fails on all levels.