When a movie calls itself Sex Medusa, you expect a certain kind of product. I don't think I'm alone in
thinking this, right movie geeks? Especially if it's a Chinese movie. I mean, so many images come to
mind. First, you expect tons of sex and nudity, right? Then, well Medusa has to be in it, right? So we
expect a snake-headed gal traipsing around fucking a ton of people. Right? That's what the title is
selling us, right? Well...if you know the kinds of movies we review, and somehow manage to find...then
you know not to judge a movie by its title, especially a descriptive one like that.
The movie starts with some soldiers walking through the sewers and using flamethrowers to kill nests
of snakes. Later in the film they use fake snakes, but not during the flamethrower scene. That's right
friends, you get to see real snakes set on fire and cooked, and then stepped on by the soldiers. After
this distasteful sequence, we see one snake escape. This regular-sized snake crawls out onto the street
and BECOMES A WOMAN! This naked woman, who used to be a little snake, wanders around town and
makes friends with a lonely widower. They have feelings for each other, but he can't make love to her
despite her forceful horniness, because he is traumatized by the fact that HE RAN OVER HIS WIFE
WHILE DRUNK ONE NIGHT! Just so you know, I will write in caps when the movie gets really retarded, so
be prepared to see more of that, it is not a typo.
Meanwhile, the widower's cousin is a scientist that is experimenting with a drug TO HELPS ANIMALS
SWITCH TRAITS! They experiment with rats and snakes and the idea is to eventually make people
healthy or some crap. I seriously zoned out of the science mumbo jumbo, but it wasn't all my fault. This
disc was straight from China so the English subtitles were incredibly wonky thanks to the fact that a
Chinese guy typed them up! Anyway, the cousin's girlfriend and co-scientist, finds out that there is
something WRONG WITH THE SNAKE GIRL'S MUCOUS (don't ask) and starts TO SUSPECT THAT SHE
MIGHT BE A SNAKE. She acts too late, though, because her boyfriend scientist gets busy with snake girl
and gets her immediately pregnant. She LAYS GIANT SNAKE EGGS IN HIS BATHROOM right after they
do it, and she leaves them to gestate for a while.
While the scientist girl searches for the snake girl's genes or whatever, we find out that the sci-guy is
actually in debt to the mob and he needs money bad. So he decides to kill his widower cousin because
then he can get his inheritance and pay off the loan sharks. He does this, and snake girl gets angry. To
further piss her off, the scientist girl stumbles upon the eggs in the bathroom and KILLS THEM BY
THROWING WATER ON THEM AS THEY HATCH! Snake girl is super pissed now, and decides to TURN
INTO A SUPER STUPID PUNK ROCK CHICK (WHICH CAN ONLY BE ASSUMED TO BE HER
HALF-SNAKE HALF-WOMAN FORM) and kills the two meddling bastards with her stupid CG tongue.
This is a slow, uninteresting movie, and probably the most disappointing Asian film I have ever seen,
which is saying quite a lot. For something that should play like balls-to-the-wall nudity and killing, it feels
more like a slow, Chinese melodrama. We spent more time with snake girl and her emotionally crippled
widower friend. I'm all for drama, but when you promise a certain kind of film (poster included) and you
deliver The Hours instead of From Dusk Till Dawn then I get pissed, and then I want to warn people
away from it. Like most of the movies on our site, you might never come across this film, but if you do
then stay away unless you have insomnia...regardless, don't go looking for this, masochist or not, this is
a true waste of time....by the way, I want to announce that I am working on a script, it's called SEX
UNICORN...it's about a soccer mom who's kid is dying of cancer on Christmas.
| - Jose Prendes |
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