DEVIL SNOW (1991)

In what looks to be Los Angeles (I'm basing this solely on what I've seen in movies), a young woman becomes addicted to crack cocaine.  She runs away from home and starts banging some sleazy dude for crack.  Soon she begins having unexplained side effects to smoking crack.  The most serious side effect being her face turns green and she murders anybody around her!  The story isn't explained that well, but some cops get involved in the case and the rest of the movie is them doing stuff and the young woman stabbing people.

For a feature-length movie that probably only cost a few thousand dollars to make, DEVIL SNOW isn't too bad.  The lighting is atrocious and the acting isn't going to win any awards, but the story is kind of funny.  I ended up watching it twice simply because it was so interesting.  I'd love to know the stories behind the film: how it originated, how the story idea was conceived, who in the hell paid for it, did it make any money, who are these actors, did they have permits to shoot, why was the lighting so horrible, was that real fire coming out of the pistol or animated, what the hell was up with that horrible green face make-up, how come nobody ever got naked, why wasn't the violence more insane, did the girl have memories of the murders, was there an actual script for all of the scenes...cause some of that shit just sounded like people rambling?  I could go on and on.

DEVIL SNOW is most definitely not for everybody, but I'm glad I came across it.

THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988)

Enjoyable (and trippy) lazy afternoon time-waster about an archaeologist in Derbyshire, England who finds a large serpent skull.  Soon after, all kinds of weird things start to happen, like the skull is stolen, a teenage boy is murdered, a cop is bitten by a snake and...a neighbor turns out to be a human-snake demon creature who worships the ancient snake god named Dionin.

As far as British-ancient-snake-cult-movies-starring-Hugh-Grant go, THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM isn't too bad.  Totally awesome 80's-looking surrealist images, blasphemy, pace that was too slow for it's own good, beautiful English scenery, numerous references to snakes, light nudity, mild violence, meh ending, complete dedication to the role by Amanda Donohoe (who pretty much carries the film), director cameo.  I just wish the film had spent less time on the characters needlessly talking and more on doing crazy shit like the dick bite scene.  Still, it's worth a watch for fans of mildly weird films about snakes.

I would love to see a THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM comedy remake where a detective is investigating a sudden rash of teenage boy corpses popping up with large snake bites on their ping-dings.  The writers behind "F is for Family" or "Brickleberry" should get to working on that for my amusement.

Double feature with RAWHEAD REX.