Black Snake is a 1973 American film directed by Russ Meyer and starring Anouska Hempel, David Warbeck, Percy Herbert and Thomas Baptiste.

It was Meyer's return to self-financed projects, following the end of his brief deal at 20th Century Fox.

Meyer's only attempt at the Blaxploitation genre, it was filmed in Panavision and was shot on location in Barbados.

[1] Meyer's vision was a period piece about colonial slavery in which a cruel slave-owner and plantation mistress dominates both the black and white men of the island.

This decision haunted Meyer for years, with the filmmaker frequently complaining that the role was unsuitable for Hempel.

In 1835, Charles Walker travels to Saint Kitts in the British West Indies to look for his missing brother Jonathan.

Charles pretends to be a bookkeeper when arrives at Blackmoor Plantation, run by Jonathan's vicious ex-wife, Lady Susan Walker.

[2][3] After making two films for 20th Century Fox Meyer wanted to return to independent filmmaking.

"[4] "This is a very liberal film, extremely so, and it's told in a manner that is forthright, and with my rambunctious style," said Meyer.

"It was a very arduous thing, working in the cane fields, the humidity and the heat, the uncomfortableness of it, and I didn't provide all the niceties that an awful lot of these English actors expected, tea and umbrellas and folding chairs and so on."

[1] Meyer said he spent "an enormously long period of time cutting" the film even though he wanted "to get away from the editing because it can be a real timeconsuming thing.