Review of Night of the Serpent

Luke Askew is one of those actors that I always enjoyed watching. He never was really lead material and was mostly that guy in the background who you recognized and thought "yeah I've seen him before". That's why one night while adventuring threw Amazon Prime I managed to find a spegetti western with him in the lead and was more intrigued that is was helmed by director Giulio Petroni (who directed the classic Death Rides a Horse). The movie has the typical spegetti style including, face closeups, dark interior shadows, and Petroni even uses a fish eye lense during some of Luke's flashback scenes. The problem however is that that sometimes it falls prey to style over substance, it runs to long at 101 minutes, and the first hour has a lot of filler and Askew doesn't officially "gun up" to the 64 minute mark. Even with those problems aside if you can stick with Night of the Serpent there's some enjoyably good filmmaking behind it.