Medusa: Queen of the Serpents

One of a long line of very low-budget films coming out of England at the moment. In fairness, it isn't the worst of the batch, but don't expect much.

The acting is below-par, the plot is flimsy at best. The few special effects used could have been straight out of a 1960's B-movie. On the plus side, it is (barely) watchable.

The pretty snake lady on the movie poster looks completely different from the plain looking character in the movie, are they supposed to be the same person or is it a false advertising?

I thought this was supposed to look like some kind of big-budget movie but it was nothing like that. It was really underwhelming and i can't even digest the entire thing lol it's THAAAT bad.

Well, talk about false advertisement. I was lured in to watch the 2020 movie "Medusa: Queen of the Serpents" given the movie's rather interesting cover. So of course I was expecting to see something akin to what was on the cover.

But boy what a disappointment "Medusa: Queen of the Serpents" from writers Matthew B. C. and Scott Jeffrey turned out to be.

The storyline had certain elements to it that actually had potential, but it was just ultimately petrified by a rather dull and slow paced storytelling where little or nothing actually happened. And it didn't really help much to spice up the movie that the characters were flaccid and one-dimensional cardboard cut-outs.

Yet, I managed to sit through, well endure would be a more appropriate word here, the entire movie. Why? Well, I was hoping that director Matthew B. C. would eventually fire up the pistons and put the movie into a proper gear. Yeah, well that just never happened.

The acting in the movie was so-so. Nothing outstanding here to be experienced, but luckily enough the actors and actresses here managed to put on semi-adequate performances.

Visually then "Medusa: Queen of the Serpents" was not actually too shabby. Sure, this wasn't million dollar special effects and CGI to blow you away. But the special effects were actually functioning well enough to serve their purposes.

Don't get your hopes up for "Medusa: Queen of the Serpents" if you sit down to watch it with the intend of watching a proper horror movie or at least a movie based on the mythology of the medusa creature. Because "Medusa: Queen of the Serpents" was far from being either of those.

I am rating "Medusa: Queen of the Serpents" a generous three out of ten stars.

..but not a movie really worth watching. The special effect make up on snake lady in the opening is an absolute joke. Within 10 minutes there's sex work, heroin use and misery, set to an Ibiza '98 chillout compliation. It's as if Ken Korda wrote it. Keep speeding on the needle bliss directors, try harder. Managed 17 minutes.