Glenda Kemp, a real-life snake dancer, delivers a C minus lead performance in this presumably semi-biographical South African sexploiter. The schmaltzy story concerns Kemp finding true love in her life, and having to choose between it and her career as a...*ahem*...exotic stage dancer...*cough*...who uses live snakes in her act.
Although a few stretches of boredom disqualify this oddity from "all-time classic sleaze" nominations, there is still enough poky appeal to curb most fans of strange, art-void cinema. The spasmodic placement of a perfervid soap-suds romance within the glamorous, sub-rosa world of reptile pole-dancer pageantry was certainly a one-time-only concept, a novelty even further itallicized by the film's literal and serious elucidation. This self-composed approach to such drooling indelicacies may put some viewers off...and leave others to sneer with delighted schadenfreude.
4/10
