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• Why does Dr. Stoner want to transform David into a snake?▾

  Dr. Stoner believes that snakes are the superior life form and will be the only creatures capable of surviving humanity's inevitable self-destruction. He sees the transformation as a gift — saving a human by converting him into something he believes is evolutionarily indestructible. His obsession is both scientific and quasi-religious, driven by a conviction that mankind is doomed.

• What are the injections Dr. Stoner gives David, and what do they actually do?▾

  Stoner tells David the injections are a series of snake-venom immunizations to protect him while working with dangerous reptiles. In reality, each injection is a serum of Stoner's own design that progressively rewrites David's biology, shedding his skin, altering his sensory perception, and ultimately triggering a full physical metamorphosis into a king cobra. David is unaware of the true purpose until the transformation is too far advanced to reverse.

• What happened to Tim, the previous assistant shown as a snake-man in the carnival sideshow?▾

  Tim was Stoner's earlier test subject on whom the transformation experiment was only partially successful. Instead of completing the metamorphosis into a fully functional snake, Tim ended up as a grotesque half-human hybrid kept alive in a carnival freak show. His existence serves as a grim foreshadowing of what awaits David and reveals that Stoner has conducted these experiments before, sacrificing multiple subjects in pursuit of his goal.

• How does the film end, and what happens to David?▾

  By the climax, David's transformation into a king cobra is essentially complete. The fully transformed David-cobra is released and, in the final confrontation, encounters the mongoose that Stoner keeps — natural enemies of cobras. The mongoose kills the cobra, meaning David dies in his transformed state. Stoner is also killed during the chaos, and his daughter Kristina, who had fallen in love with David, is left alone having lost both her father and the man she loved.

• Why does the king cobra that bites Stoner fail to kill him immediately?▾

  Stoner has spent years injecting himself with escalating doses of snake venom, building up a broad immunity to multiple species' venoms as part of his research. This self-immunization is what allows him to handle his snakes with relative safety and is presented as a logical extension of his obsessive dedication to his work. However, it does not make him invincible — the accumulated trauma of the attack and other events in the climax still lead to his death.