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{{Short description|1974 Filipino horror film}}
{{Distinguish|The Black Mamba (film)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Black Mamba
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| director = George Rowe
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| starring = [[John Ashley (actor)|John Ashley]]<br>[[Marlene Clark]]<br>[[Pilar Pilapil]]<br>[[Eddie Garcia]]
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| released = {{Film date|1974}}
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'''''Black Mamba''''' is a 1974 [[horror film]] directed by George Rowe and starring [[John Ashley (actor)|John Ashley]], [[Marlene Clark]], [[Pilar Pilapil]], and [[Eddie Garcia]].<ref name="two">{{cite magazine|magazine=Trash Compactor|edition=Volume 2 No. 6|url=https://archive.org/stream/TrashCompactorV2N61992/Trash%20Compactor%20v2%20n6%20%281992%29#page/n5/mode/1up/search/%22john+ashley%22|title=The John Ashley Interview Part 2|year=1992|page=6|first=John|last=Lamont}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://diaboliquemagazine.com/the-nine-lives-of-john-ashley/url=https://diaboliquemagazine.com/the-nine-lives-of-john-ashley/|magazine=Diabolique Magazine|title=A Hell of a Life: The Nine Lives of John Ashley|date=December 2019}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Premise==
A doctor gets involved with a woman who practices witchcraft and can turn into a python. She intends for a young child to be her next victim. The doctor tries to stop her.<ref name="two"/>
==Cast==
*[[John Ashley (actor)|John Ashley]]
*[[Marlene Clark]]
*[[Pilar Pilapil]]
*[[Eddie Garcia]]
==Production==
The film is notorious for depicting an [[autopsy]] performed on a real human [[Cadaver|corpse]]. A real corpse was exhumed from one of the local prisons and used on film. "It is a wild film," said Ashley, ""very graphic, very gory."<ref name="Weaver p 46">Weaver p 46</ref>
The film was originally known as ''Witchcraft''. Ashley said it co-starred one of the top female stars in the Philippines and that he made it just before his involvement in ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. He says the film was financed by a Chinese man involved in the advertising business.<ref name="two"/>
==Release==
The film remained unreleased until after Ashley's death in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|last=Poggiali|first=Chris|title=Slinking Through the Seventies: An Interview with Marlene Clark|date=January 20, 2011|url=http://templeofschlock.blogspot.com/2011/01/slinking-through-seventies-interview.html|accessdate=January 9, 2015}}</ref>
==References==
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▲It is notorious for depicting an autopsy performed on a real human corpse. The movie was not widely screened.<ref name="tom">Tom Weaver, "Interview with John Ashley", ''Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup'', McFarland 1988 p 45-46</ref>
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0242317}}
{{Blood Island}}
[[Category:1974 films]]
[[Category:Philippine horror films]]
[[Category:Films shot in the Philippines]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
{{Philippines-film-stub}}
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