HBO filmmakers talk wild new ‘Alabama Snake’ documentary
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
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Which is why multiple books, onscreen depictions and countless news articles have covered the case.
But the stranger-than-fiction Summerford story has never been told like this.
A new HBO documentary, “Alabama Snake,” turns the case into a spellbinding Southern gothic film.
Director Theo Love and producer Bryan Storkel lay out the arc – and its characters’ complicated backstories – in a rich way that builds to edge-of-your-seat, this-can’t-get-any-weirder suspense.
In fact, “Alabama Snake,” which premiered Dec. 9, feels less like just another true-crime stream, and more like the best “True Detective” since season one’s Matthew McConaughey-starring epic.
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The crime took place Oct. 4, 1991.
Posted: Dec 9, 2020 5:41 PM
Posted By: The Associated Press, WAAY 31
A movie premiering at 8 p.m. Wednesday on HBO and available for streaming on HBO Max tells the story of an Alabama preacher who is in prison after being convicted of trying to kill his wife with a snake.
“Alabama Snake” is about Glenn Summerford, who remains imprisoned after being convicted of trying to murder his wife nearly three decades ago.
Summerford pastored a snake-handling church in Scottsboro.
His wife was bitten twice by a snake in 1991 after her husband forced her to stick her hand inside a cage of snakes.