Serpent Woman

Creator: Ray Harryhausen

Film: The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad 1958

Serpent Woman Video

 

 "Remember not only will you triumph over good and evil but you will be the most exotic woman in all Baghdad"

 With those words Sokurah transforms Sadi into what you see here....

 

                    

As part of the performance Sokurah gave to the Caliph and the Sultan he turned Sadi into a part snake part woman creature that left everyone in the room in awe. By putting her in a huge vase with a cobra, he managed to come up with a spell that joined the snake and Sadi into the creature.

But the snake still had a mind of its own and after a couple of minutes while Sadi/Snake perform the dance for the crowd, the snake raps herself on the neck of Sadi and begins to choke her! Soon as everyone panics at the scene, Sokurah pours his potion and manages to save her and return Sadi to her normal human self.

Once she is returned to normal, Sokurah impresses the Caliph and the Sultan with hopes that they would grant his wish for a ship back to Colossa. The Caliph was difficult to impress so Sokurah provides them with another performance this time using his gift of Prophecy and what a dire prophecy it was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Serpent woman Facts

 

• The Snakewoman's skin, from her hips to the end of her tail, was molded from that of a boa constrictor.

 

•  Ray Harryhausen made a plastercast and a rubber-textured skin to put on the model, a real skin would not have been suitable because it would have been too brittle and inflexible.

Credit: An Animated Life

By Tony Dalton