This movie is why I keep on writing.

Take King of Snake, also known as Da She Wang, a movie directed by Yu-Lung Hsu and starring Danny Lee — Infra-Man! — as Dr. Ling, an inventor who makes R19, a drug that can transform organic matter into gigantic things. Maybe that would be a good idea for fruit or vegetables.

But then a snake gets into it.

Yet in this version, remixed and remade by Godfrey Ho, there’s also a hardass government agent named Ted Fast (Pierre Kirby) who is tracking down some terrorists while the world explodes all around him as a gigantic snake named Moser and his human friend Tingting just try and be a snake and his little girl, except he gets too big and starts killing hundreds if not thousands of people.

As Ted Fast comes after his enemy Bob Solomon (Edowan Bersma), who wants to use the formula to grow giant food and take over the world’s need for groceries, he has only the losest of ties to the reality of the other movie, as always united through one conversation over the telephone.

There’s a moment at the end of this, as Moser lies dying — it breaks my heart just as much here as it does in King of Snake — Tingting loses her mind and starts shrieking at the military about killing her snake. Oh Tingting. Your snake just killed an entire city and some people will never recover from this and most of it is your fault.

As with all movies directed by Godfrey Ho, the soundtrack to this is so much of the reason to watch. There’s “Isadora,” “Catedral de Sal” and “The Night” by Azul y Negro; “Never Land” by Sisters of Mercy; “Sister Surprise” by Gary Numan; “Dance II” by the Duretti Column; “Phaedra,” “Kiew Mission,” “Logos (Part 1)” and “Rubycon (Part 1)” by Tangerine Dream; “Let It Rock” by Bon Jovi; “Better and Better” by A Flock of Seagulls; Richard Band’s Re-Animator soundtrack; “Heartbeat” by Chris and Cosey; “Rendez Vous V” by Jean Michel Jarre; “Agonized by Love” and “Lorretine” by Clan of Xymox; “Witches’ Multiplication Table” by Holger Czukay; “Part 1 (Alien)” by Don Preston and Michael Mantler; The Human Vapor soundtrack by Kunio Miyauchi; a song from Miyauchi Kunio’s Ultra Q soundtrack and part of the Starman score by Jack Nitzsche.

There are reviews of this that talk about how bad it is, how cheap it is and how they wasted time watching it. Anyone who wrote one of those is someone you never want to be friends with. They have a lack of vision, an inability to love life and just are robots sleepwalking through life.

Open your heart and let Moser inside.

You can watch this on YouTube.