Fant么mas. Louis Feuillade, 1913-1914.
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Edition screened: Kino 3-DVD set Fant么mas: The Complete Saga, released 2010. French intertitles with English subtitles, no dialogue tracks. Collective runtime approximately 378 minutes.
Summary: Cruel killing of a large snake.
Details: I no longer have this series to rescreen. I recall a scene from the second of the five episodes (Juve vs. Fant么mas) in which a very large snake, probably a constrictor, is deployed in Juve’s bedchamber in a murder attempt. The snake’s head is brutally hacked off. It’s an inefficient and very real killing, alarmingly cruel and shown rather explicitly.