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Alabama Snake

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Original title: Alabama Snake
Year: 2020
Running time: 85 min.
Country: United States
Director: Theo Love
Screenwriter: Theo Love, Bryan Storkel
Cast: Documentary
Music: Michael James Lee
Cinematography: Britton Foster
Producer: DreamCo, Sidestilt. Distributor: HBO
Genre: Documentary | Small Town Life (North-american). Snakes. Crime
Synopsis: Alabama Snake explores the story of Oct. 4, 1991, when a violent crime was reported in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. Glenn Summerford, a Pentecostal minister, was accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake. The details of the investigation and the trial that followed has "haunted Southern Appalachia for decades." Alabama Snake features local historian and folklorist, Thomas Burton, who has spent his life studying the culture, beliefs, and folklore of Pentecostal snake handlers, painting a "Southern Gothic portrait" of Summerford and his tale of demon possession.

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Alabama Snake

2020

Theo Love

5.3

(97)