Villian(s)  Snake cult, shape-shifter

Actor(s):  Joy Bang, Marlene Clark, Roger Garrett, Vic Diaz

Brief Description  Night of the Cobra Woman is a 1972 B-movie horror exploitation film co-produced by Roger Corman's New World Pictures and filmed on location in the Philippines. Directed and co-written by Andrew Meyer, the film runs for approximately 77 to 85 minutes and blends elements of supernatural curses, shape-shifting serpent lore, and erotic '70s grindhouse cinema.

Plot:
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Lena (Marlene Clark), a Red Cross nurse, ventures into a mysterious jungle cave covered in ancient snake paintings. Inside, she is bitten by a rare, legendary cobra named "Movini". Instead of dying, Lena survives and is cursed with shape-shifting abilities, eternal youth, and fatal sexual prowess. Lena lives as a reclusive, ageless "snake priestess". To maintain her youthful exterior and prevent herself from permanently morphing into a cobra, she requires two things: a steady supply of cobra venom and sexual encounters with vital young men, from whom she literally absorbs life force.

Joanna (Joy Bang), a young UNICEF biology student researching snake antivenoms, travels into the Manila jungle in search of the rare "Firebrand Cobra". Her boyfriend, Stan Duff (Roger Garrett), accidentally gets pulled into Lena's orbit and becomes the ageless seductress’s new prey. Complications peak when a conniving local couple tries to steal Lena's venom, and Joanna's pet eagle kills Lena's cobra deity, Movini, causing the supernatural curse to unravel violently. Despite its narrative flaws, the film is notable for its heavy use of real, live cobras handled directly by the actors (under the supervision of snake handler Gelacio Erica). It features classic '70s drive-in tropes, including daytime jungle photography, fractured psychedelic editing, and sudden b-movie gore.