Written By: Ken HulseySources: India West / Bloody Disgusting / Avery Guerra
Here at Monster Island News we cater to two different fetishes. On one side you have the group who love sexy women with swords, and on the other you have the group who love sexy women that are half reptile. I subscribe to yet a third group who just love sexy women. give em a sword or put scales on them, it doesn't matter to me. That's beyond the point. What I'm writing about today is for the snake-chick lover in you.
Way back in October of last year I wrote an article about a Bollywood horror film being made here in America by director Jennifer Lynch, daughter of the famed cult director David Lynch called "Hisss". The film stars famed Indian sex-symbol Mallika Sherawat as the “ichhadahari nagin”, a creature who can shape shift in order to lure in it's prey.
To make the transformation from human to a snake Sherawat had to endure hours under make-up and in uncomfortable latex costumes. In a recent interview with India West the actress explained how she approached the role, “I have always taken risks, done unconventional things,” she said. “This role too is very unusual — my get-up is something never before seen in Bollywood movies. I have to express emotions through my eyes as I don’t have any dialogues.”
“The story of the nagin is a popular legend in many eastern countries. ‘Hisss’ will bring that myth to the West,” she said. It also offers a different perspective to a Western audience because in India, snakes are worshipped — while in the West they are portrayed as monsters, in such movies as “Anaconda,” she added.Director Jennifer Lynch was pleasantly surprised that her star didn't fit the mold of a typical self-centered beauty, “Mallika is beautiful, and has a magnetic personality, but no one told me what incredible intelligence and kindness she possessed”.
Likewise the director was impressed by Sherawat's acting and her ability to convey feeling with looks and body movements.“It is easier when you have dialogues, it gives you somewhere to put your energy in … find strength in,” said the filmmaker. “But for this role, Mallika had to learn to express through her eyes. It is difficult to give a different look for every emotion, but I asked that of her. She understood what I wanted, and delivered. Mallika has brought out that vulnerability and instinctual power of animals that also makes them strangely human.”
The very elaborate Nagin costumes that Sherawat spent up to fourteen hours a day in, were the creation of famed Hollywood make-up legend Robert Kurtzman, whose resume includes "Evil Dead,” “Friday the 13th”, “Nightmare on Elm Street”. In total there were eight costumes in all, each portraying a different stage of the serpent to human transformation.
Lynch describes her movie as a “love story-action-comedy-musical-creature feature.”The story of “Hisss” follows a ruthless American who, fascinated by the ancient folklore of the nagin, travels to India to find out the truth. In the jungles of India, he captures the mate of the nagin for the magical powers of its nagmani, a mythical gem embedded in its hood. The nagin transforms into a femme fatale and comes to the modern world to track down her lover. She wreaks revenge on those who stand in the way of their reunion and also on her mate’s captors. Her desperate search and subsequent quest for revenge results in a breakneck chase with a trail of bodies and narrow escapes.
If half-girl-half-snake movies are your thing, then you will be happy to learn that that "Hisss" isn't the only show in town. Recently the much maligned movie, "Snake Curse" was released in China. Details on the film a kinda sketchy, but from what I can gather it revolves around a crazed scientist who conducts all kinds of experiments on snakes including DNA splicing to create a half-woman/half-snake.
Might be worth your while if you like girls that slither.
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