Marlene Clark is good (and very sexy) as a nurse who becomes a Cobra Woman. This could have been an interesting little horror film, but the film is defeated by amateurish acting and a mediocre presentation. There were two female leads, so why was the focus more on the completely ineffectual male actor? As for Joy Bang (interesting name), her problem was that she didn't have any "bang." As my heading says, only Marlene Clark makes this movie worthwhile. Marlene shows some skin here, but not enough. The movie, in general, comes across as too timid for its own premise.

I'd already given up to find Night of Cobra Woman when decide take a look on Youtube, to my dismay appear there two options over the movie, a VHS print subtitled in Spanish and last one fully restored in Spanish language no subtitled at all, of course I've chose with last one, thanks Youtube to allowed me once more a hard to find picture whereof I did watched in far off 1981 at my teenager years.

The plot is a slight confused to figure out at first glance, set in WWII on Philippines when a couple of nurses enter in a cave where the rock wall there a several figures displaying a big snake, one of them leaves the spot and another keep there and has been bitten for this snake, henceforth she doesn't died, meanwhile out of cave his co-worker is rapped by a Japanese soldier and has been shot afterwards, the bitten nurse Lena Azura (Marlene Clark) healed the wound of Francesca (Rosemary Gill) such snake poison somehow stop the ageing process on Lena that keep young forever, jumping to year 1972 when arrives a couple from Unicef the young girl Joanna (Joy Bang) and her boyfriend Stan Duff (Roger Garrett) on survey and find out an antidote for some kind of snake.

On the Institute Joanna receives an information about Lena that lives on rural area surround by dense forest with several snakes around, Duff bought a Eagle taking her there, on the meeting with Lena the Eagle attacks the special snake called Movini killing at once, Lena stays furious due this snake's poison keeps herself younger, thus she has making love with Duff and others men steadily to maintain young or Lena becomes into a snake, worst each man she makes love have a fastest ageing process, now she walking on the city and others places catching younger men aiming for keeping her human body.

A sort of exotic sexploitation blended horror, it's worth emphasizing the amateur make up whichever be part of the body, whether in skin, faces and eyes, really a bad work, that said the picture is fuzzy even pointless, displaying cockfighting and others off topic things, the special effects are in same level as well, anyway it was an average experience to see this weirdo and off color picture again, sad to know about the lead casting Joy Bang dropped out her career afthmaths.

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First watch: 1981 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 5.

Rather obscure production from Roger Cormans' studio New World is admittedly a curio. It's far from being an unsung gem, but it's just weird, atmospheric - and sad - enough to make for mildly interesting viewing. The truth is that not that much ever happens, and the pace is pretty slow. Most of the acting is pretty underwhelming - some of these people have a hard time getting their dialogue out - and the dialogue isn't too hot. The filmmaking is crude overall, but there is something that's still compelling about this trashy and schlocky material.

Sexy Marlene Clark plays Lena Aruza, a nurse during WWII who ventures inside a Filipino cave, where she's bitten by a special kind of cobra and for the next 20 plus years is able to maintain her youthful appearance - and can change into a snake as well. Then along comes a young supposed snake expert, Joanna (Joy Bang) and her boyfriend Duff (Roger Garrett). Lena and Duff are drawn to each other, but when the pet eagle that he bought on a whim kills Lena's god / companion Movini, she must find alternate methods for looking young by playing up to horny young men.

Clark, who gets to show off a lot of her body, is good, but most everybody else here is dull, although it's always nice to see Filipino icon Vic Diaz, who's cast in two roles. The music by Restie Umali is actually quite nice. The makeup effects are not too bad for whatever budget this movie must have had, and there is one amusing gag involving the shedding of skin.

Worth a look for B movie addicts who like discovering little known oddities like this one.

Six out of 10.