Alabama Snake

Utter nonsense. An hour and five minutes in, with only twenty minutes remaining, I could no longer stand it.

I'm not from that area, nor am I of that religion, but from an outsider's point of view, all of these people have either bought into the falsehoods repeated to them over the years or they are just crazy. I can't say whether or not Glenn Summerford was trying to kill his wife, but the fact that he didn't take her to a doctor after she was bitten by a RATTLESNAKE because it was simply "in God's hands" is criminal in itself.

The only reason I gave it three stars instead of one is because of the documentary's production. With that said, letting these people spew their absolute nonsense for an hour and a half is a waste of airtime. With the exception of the first responders, and maybe his first wife, there are no redeeming characters, and certainly no worthwhile storyline.

Alabama Snake is a tight-if extremely unbalanced-documentary that gets to the root of the bizarre and unsettling tale of Pentecostal preacher Glenn Summerford, accused of attempting to murder his wife using a rattlesnake. It gets across an eerie atmosphere in rural Alabama and the dark undercurrents of religious fanaticism throughout the narrative. The documentary does, at times, feel a bit disjointed; its pacing suffers from a lack of focus and coherence. The reenactments, while quite evocative, sometimes veer into melodrama and become a distraction from the really compelling real-life drama at the core. Even with its flaws, Alabama Snake is a haunting exploration of faith, fear, and the thin line between them.

If you can get through the backwards grammar, it's a fairly interesting story. Trailer parks rule and roll tide.

More characters needed. Am I close to 150?????

There are documentarists out there that sweeps the historic field of peculiar and heresays, lets call it urban legends. so if you take a look at this hbo docu directed by theo love you will get crocodile shoes oiled with snake oil and a bit of venom to reach the highestlevel of resurection and as close as it can get to god, the holy father, used as a religious relique in a sect down in the blessed old state of alabama usa, like you eat oblat and drink wine in a church sermony.

but snakes as a murder weapon??? clever and clueless, in fact a perfect murder if you ask me. so hang on to this all absorbing documentary, you will gawp your jaw just as the grumpy old miself did. higly recommended.

Darlene is 100% off her rocker on drugs, let's get that out of the way. I don't know what happened but everybody somehow was a witness to a demon at some point in this film. Not real sure what I just watched lmao his first wife seemed to be the only semi sane person. "I had a demon in him. I seen it. Done banished the demon out the room, he told me to call it back so I did, and it took him" it was like I was watching a scene out of Trailer Park Boys only not as funny. Nobody in this documentary had above a grade 10 to quote Ricky of TPB. Just utter nonsense the whole time. 5 stars bc it was entertaining for a late night laugh.