Curse of Snakes Valley (1987)

Original title

Klątwa Doliny Węży

Directed by

Marek Piestrak

Genre

horror film, science fiction horror film

Country

Soviet Union, Poland

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist, a woman, and a former pilot search for a vase in the jungles of Indochina. The vase contains a metal container that seems alien. The film is a Polish-Soviet co-production from the 1980s.

adventurousmysteriousquirkylow-budgetnostalgicpulp-styledatedfantastical

What happens

Curse of Snakes Valley (Polish: Klątwa doliny węży, Estonian: Madude oru needus) is a 1988 Polish–Soviet Estonian adventure science fiction horror film directed by Marek Piestrak. The screenplay is loosely based on the Robert Stratton short story "The Hobby of Dr. Traven", which was published by the end of 1970s in the Polish magazine Przekrój. The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles, looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin. Curse of Snakes Valley was a great box office success. About 1 million viewers saw the film in Poland and as many as 25 million in the Soviet Union. In 2022, New Orleans hip hop duo $uicideboy$ used clips of the film for the lyric video of their song "$uicideboy$ Were Better In 2015", off of their album Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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