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Novel(s) | Anaconda: The Writer's Cut (2014) |
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Anaconda (also known as Anacondas) is an Americanhorrorfilm series created by Hans Bauer, Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. Produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the series began with Anaconda (1997) directed by Luis Llosa, and was followed by one theatrical stand-alone sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) directed by Dwight H. Little, and three television sequels, Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008), Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009), both directed by Don E. FauntLeRoy, and Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015) directed by A. B. Stone and being a crossover with the Lake Placid series. Each installment revolves around giant man-eatinganacondas and the efforts of various groups of people to capture or destroy the creatures. The fictional plant known as the Blood Orchid and the company Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals as well as the fictitious Murdoch family are repeatedly referenced in the films.
Anaconda cast also features Danny Trejo in a cameo appearance as Trejo. The movie received mixed reviews from the audiences but performed well at the box office. It collected around $136 million globally against a budget of $45 million. Anaconda has achieved cult status over the years. Get the latest entertainment news from India & around the. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of of Anaconda 3 with exclusive news, photos, videos and more at TVGuide.com.
Shot in head. Got coiled around by the. Directed by Don E. With Crystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter, Calin Stanciu. A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (also known as Anaconda 2) is a 2004 American adventure horror film directed by Dwight H. Little.It is a stand-alone sequel to the film Anaconda (1997) and the second installment of the Anaconda franchise.The film follows a team of researchers set for an expedition into the Southeast Asian tropical island of Borneo - Indonesia, to search for a sacred.
Films[edit]
Anaconda (1997)[edit]
When a documentary crew traveling through the Amazon jungle picks up a stranded man, they are unaware of the trouble that will occur. This stranger's hobby is to capture the giant Anaconda snake, and plans to continue targeting it on their boat.
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)[edit]
A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant longer life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)[edit]
A team of mercenaries join forces with a herpetologist and an assistant from the billionaire owner who both worked in a genetic research lab, Wexel Hall, to capture the snakes after they escaped from the lab, until they find themselves needing to stop them before it's too late.
Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009)[edit]
A herpetologist is on a mission to destroy the Blood Orchid from the billionaire who wanted a serum of the orchid to cure his cancer, until a dangerous snake threatens everyone.
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015)[edit]
In Black Lake, Maine, an accident allows the two giant species, crocodiles and anacondas to be regenerated and escape towards to Clear Lake. Now, Reba teams up with Tully to find his daughter Bethany and a group of sorority girls in a deadly match between the two creatures.
Reboot[edit]
In January 2020, Sony Pictures announced a reboot is in development and screenwriter Evan Daugherty was hired to write the reboot film.[1]
Cast and crew[edit]
Cast[edit]
Key- An A indicates an appearance through archival footage.
- A dark gray cell indicates the character was not in the film.
Character | Films | |||
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Anaconda | Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | Anaconda 3: Offspring | Anacondas: Trail of Blood | Lake Placid vs. Anaconda |
1997 | 2004 | 2008 | 2009 | 2015 |
Terri Flores | Jennifer Lopez | Mentioned | ||
Danny Rich | Ice Cube | Mentioned | ||
Paul Serone | Jon Voight | Mentioned | ||
Professor Steven Cale | Eric Stoltz | Mentioned | ||
Warren Westridge | Jonathan Hyde | Mentioned | ||
Gary Dixon | Owen Wilson | Mentioned | ||
Denise Kalberg | Kari Wuhrer | Mentioned | ||
Mateo | Vincent Castellanos | |||
Poacher | Danny Trejo | |||
Bill Johnson | Johnny Messner | |||
Sam Rogers | KaDee Strickland | |||
Dr. Jack Bryon | Matthew Marsden | |||
Cole Burris | Eugene Byrd | |||
Gail Stern | Salli Richardson-Whitfield | |||
Tran Wu | Karl Yune | |||
Gordon Mitchell | Morris Chestnut | |||
Dr. Ben Douglas | Nicholas Gonzalez | |||
John Livingston | Andy Anderson | |||
Stephen Hammett | David Hasselhoff | |||
Dr. Amanda Hayes | Crystal Allen | |||
Peter 'J.D.' Murdoch | John Rhys-Davies | Mentioned | ||
Pinkus | Ryan McCluskey | |||
Nick | Patrick Regis | |||
Andrei | Alin Olteanu | |||
Grozny | Anthony Green | Anthony GreenA | ||
Victor | Toma Danilă | Toma DanilăA | ||
Sofia | Milhaela Oros | Milhaela OrosA | ||
Professor Eric Kane | Serban Celea | Serban CeleaA | ||
Darryl | Alin Constantinescu | Alin ConstantinescuA | ||
Peter Reysner | Zoltan Butuc | |||
Jackson | Linden Ashby | |||
Scott | Danny Midwinter | |||
Alex | Călin Stanciu | |||
Heather | Ana Ularu | |||
Wendy | Anca-Ioana Androne | |||
Eugene | Emil Hostina | |||
Will 'Tully' Tull | Corin Nemec | |||
Reba | Yancy Butler | |||
Jim Bickerman | Robert Englund | |||
Bethany Tull | Skye Lourie | |||
Sarah Murdoch | Annabel Wright | |||
Beach | Stephen Billington | |||
Tiffani | Laura Dale | |||
Margo | Ali Eagle | |||
Deputy Ferguson | Oliver Walker |
Crew[edit]
Role | Film | ||||
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Anaconda | Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | Anaconda 3: Offspring | Anacondas: Trail of Blood | Lake Placid vs. Anaconda | |
1997 | 2004 | 2008 | 2009 | 2015 | |
Director | Luis Llosa | Dwight H. Little | Don E. FauntLeRoy | A. B. Stone | |
Writer(s) | Hans Bauer Jim Cash Jack Epps Jr. | Screenplay by John Claflin Daniel Zelman Michael Miner Edward Neumeier Story by Hans Bauer Jim Cash Jack Epps Jr. | Nicholas Davidoff David Olson | David Olson | Screenplay by Berkeley Anderson |
Producer(s) | Verna Harrah Carol Little Leonard Rabinowitz | Verna Harrah | Alison Semenza | Jeffery Beach Phillip Roth | |
Composer | Randy Edelman | Nerida Tyson-Chew | Peter Meisner | Claude Foisy | |
Cinematographer | Bill Butler | Stephen F. Windon | Don E. FlauntLeRoy | Ivo Peitchev | |
Editor | Michael R. Miller Gregg London | Marcus D'Arcy Mark Warner | Scott Conrad | Cameron Hallenbeck | |
Production companies | Middle Fork Productions Screen Gems | Hollywood Media Bridge Stage 6 Films | UFO International Destination Films | ||
Distributor | Columbia Pictures | Sony Pictures Releasing | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | ||
Release date | April 11, 1997 | August 27, 2004 | July 26, 2008 | February 28, 2009 | April 25, 2015 |
Running time | 89 minutes | 97 minutes | 91 minutes | 89 minutes | 92 minutes |
Reception[edit]
Box office performance[edit]
Film | Release date | Box office gross | Budget | Ref. | ||
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North America | Other territories | Worldwide | ||||
Anaconda | April 11, 1997 | $65,885,767 | $71,000,000 | $136,885,767 | $45 million | [2] |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | August 27, 2004 | $32,238,923 | $38,753,975 | $70,992,898 | $25 million | [3] |
Total | $98,124,690 | $109,753,975 | $207,878,669 | $70 million | [4] |
Critical response[edit]
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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Anaconda | 39% (51 reviews)[5] | 37 (20 reviews)[6] |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | 26% (120 reviews)[7] | 40 (28 reviews)[8] |
Music[edit]
Soundtracks[edit]
Title | U.S. release date | Length | Performed by | Label |
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Anaconda (1997): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | April 22, 1997 | 33:56 | Randy Edelman | Edel Records |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | August 30, 2004 | 60:57 | Nerida Tyson-Chew | Varèse Sarabande |
Other media[edit]
Novelization[edit]
Anaconda: The Writer's Cut is a novel by Hans Bauer published in 2014. Bauer also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Anaconda and its 2004 sequel Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.[9]
Video games[edit]
- Quake Anaconda Mod (1997)
Promoting the original film's release, Sony released a free total conversion mod for Quake Mission Pack No. 1: Scourge of Armagon which featured new snake enemies and a large Anaconda boss character.[10][11]
- Anacondas Arcade Game (2004)
Anacondas Arcade Game is an online interactive game produced by Sony Studios in 2004 to promote the film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid from the same year.[12]
- Anacondas 3D: Adventure Game (2004)
Anacondas 3D: Adventure Game is an online interactive game produced by Sony Studios in 2004 to promote the film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid from the same year.[13][14]
- Snakes on a Babe (2008)
Snakes on a Babe is an online interactive game produced in 2008 to promote the film Anaconda 3: Offspring from the same year.[15][16]
References[edit]
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- ^'Anaconda (1997)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
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- ^'Anaconda (1997)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
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- ^'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ^'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'. Metacritic. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
- ^'Anaconda: The Writer's Cut - Kindle edition by Hans Bauer. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com'. amazon.com.
- ^'Blue's Quake News - March 29 - April 4, 1997'. www.bluesnews.com.
- ^'anaconda.zip - Anaconda by Magicman in the Quake map archive at Quaddicted.com'. www.quaddicted.com.
- ^'Play Anacondas | Play Free Addicting Games Online'. www.freeaddictinggames.com.
- ^'Anacondas: 3D Adventure Game FULL GAME - download'. Gamepressure.com.
- ^'Anacondas 3D Adventure Game. Get the software safe and easy'. Software Informer.
- ^'Anaconda 3 – The Offspring Presents: Snakes on a Babe'. Beyond Hollywood. 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original(flash) on 2009-01-22. Retrieved 2016-02-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | |
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Directed by | Dwight H. Little |
Produced by | Verna Harrah |
Screenplay by |
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Story by | |
Based on | Anaconda by Hans Bauer Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. |
Starring | |
Music by | Nerida Tyson-Chew |
Cinematography | Stephen F. Windon |
Edited by | |
Production company | Columbia Pictures Screen Gems Middle Fork Productions |
Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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97 minutes | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $20–25 million[1][2] |
Box office | $71 million[2] |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (also known as Anaconda 2) is a 2004 American adventurehorror film directed by Dwight H. Little. It is a stand-alone sequel to the film Anaconda (1997) and the second installment of the Anaconda franchise. The film follows a team of researchers set for an expedition into the Southeast Asian tropical island of Borneo - Indonesia, to search for a sacred flower for which they believe will bring humans to a longer and healthier life, but soon become stalked and hunted by the deadly anacondas inhabiting the island.
Like its predecessor, the film received negative reviews but was a financial success. The film was followed by a sequel, Anaconda 3: Offspring in 2008.
Plot[edit]
A team of researchers funded by a New York pharmaceutical firm Wexel Hall, including Dr. Jack Byron, Gordon Mitchell, Sam Rogers, Gail Stern, Cole Burris, and Dr. Ben Douglas, leave for a jungle in Borneo to search for a flower called Perrinnia Immortalis, which they believe can be used as a type of fountain of youth. Though their guide Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran Wu have misgivings, Jack convinces them to take an unsafe path. The team goes over a waterfall and has to wade through the river. A giant anaconda emerges from the water and swallows Ben whole, but the rest of the team escape from the river. Bill assures them that it was the largest snake he has ever seen and that it should take weeks for it to grow hungry again. However, most of the team demand that the expedition be called off. They travel to Bill's friend, John Livingston, who lives on the river, to see if Bill can borrow his boat, but they find Livingston dead and his boat wrecked.
They find themselves in a small native village consisting of thatched huts and a disemboweled anaconda with a pair of human legs hanging out of the snake's abdomen. The team realizes that the snakes are unusually large in size because their lives have been extended through the orchids, which are a part of the local food chain. Jack says that since they must be close to the orchids, they should press on, though the others contend that there is no evidence that the orchids will have the same effect on humans. Wanting to leave, they start building an escape raft.
Gordon discovers Livington's radio and gun and realizes they could have called for help long ago. Jack is unable to convince him to allow the expedition to continue, so he paralyzes him using a venomous spider. As Jack joins the others at the raft, Sam discovers Gordon and the spider bite. An anaconda drops down from the rafters and swallows Gordon alive soon after she leaves the building. The others arrive just as it finishes, so Bill sets the building on fire in hopes of killing the anaconda, but notices that it already made its escape. Jack uses the commotion to steal the raft.
With no more material to make another raft, they hack through the jungle to beat Jack to the orchids and retrieve their raft. On the way they fall into a cave trying to escape from an anaconda. Cole gets lost and panics after finding a skeleton. He runs into Bill's partner, Tran, and as they return to the others, Tran gets pulled under and Cole tries to find him, but all he sees is Tran's lost flashlight floating. Later, Cole gets tangled in the water with Tran's vest tight around his throat and is eaten by an anaconda underwater. Bill tries to find Cole and Tran, but also notices Tran's lost flashlight floating with his blood surrounding it. The terrified Cole escapes from the caves behind the group, seconds ahead of the snake, which follows him through the hole and gets stuck. Sam uses a machete to behead it, but another snake captures Cole. The team follows and find him being constricted, but still alive. Bill throws his knife and impales the snake through the head, killing it and freeing Cole.
The group finds the raft just as Jack finds the blood orchids, hanging precariously above a pit in which a ball of male anacondas are mating with the queen. Yamaha fx 140 repair manual. Jack shoots Bill in the arm and forces the party to accompany him to the orchids. He has Sam cross the pit via a thin log to fill a backpack with orchids. As she returns, the log cracks. Jack orders her to throw him the backpack, but Sam threatens to drop the flowers into the pit unless he drops the gun. The log breaks, and she falls, hanging by her leg halfway down the pit. As the others try to help her, Jack attempts to retrieve the backpack. The spider he used to paralyze Gordon escapes from its jar and bites him. Jack falls into the pit and is devoured. The vine holding Sam also gives away and she too falls into the pit, but is alive. Apple store is still down. She climbs out just in time as one of the anacondas tries to get her feet.
The female anaconda notices them, but Gail tricks it into biting their fuel container. Bill tries to shoot the snake, but the gun is empty. Cole shoots it with a flare, causing a chain reaction that sets the anaconda on fire and kills the other snakes, also destroying the blood orchids. The survivors, Bill, Sam, Cole and Gail, make it back to the raft, heading to Kota Bharu.
Cast[edit]
- Johnny Messner as Bill Johnson
- KaDee Strickland as Sam Rogers
- Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Gail Stern
- Matthew Marsden as Dr. Jack Byron
- Eugene Byrd as Cole Burris
- Morris Chestnut as Gordon Mitchell
- Karl Yune as Tran Wu
- Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Ben Douglas
- Andy Anderson as John Livingston
Soundtrack[edit]
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid | ||
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Film score by Nerida Tyson-Chew | ||
Released | August 30, 2004 | |
Genre | Soundtracks Film scores | |
Length | 60:57 | |
Label | Varèse Sarabande | |
Anaconda soundtrack chronology | ||
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The soundtrack for the film was composed by Nerida Tyson-Chew and released by Varèse Sarabande.[3]
- Track listing
- Opening Titles / Jungle Floor (2:12)
- Elixir Perrinia Immortalis (1:40)
- Kong Attacks Gail (2:04)
- Stealing the Fruit / Kong Terrified (3:06)
- Almost a Kiss (1:20)
- Predator in the Water (3:53)
- Enter the Jungle (0:56)
- Foreboding Path (2:22)
- Crossing the Bog (3:29)
- Spider of Anaesthesia (2:58)
- Livingston's Death (1:05)
- All Hope is Lost (1:58)
- Lopaks (1:36)
- It's Mating Season (3:15)
- Totem (1:34)
- Jack's Devious Deal Uncovered (1:23)
- Betrayal of Trust (2:28)
- The Cavern (6:31)
- Climbing to the Light (6:02)
- Discovering the Orchids / Face Off (11:14)
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid debuted at second place in the box office, earned $32,238,923 in the United States and the international gross of $38,753,975, bringing a worldwide total of $70,992,898.[2]
Critical reception[edit]
Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film received a 26% based on 120 reviews, with an average rating of 4.21 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads, 'A cheesy monster B-movie.'[4] https://coolwfil719.weebly.com/prva-sportska-kladionica.html.
Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 40 out of 100 based on 28 reviews.[5] Roger Ebert awarded the film two out of four stars, a rating less than that he gave the original film. Ebert, however, praised Matthew Marsden's performance as being 'suitably treacherous'.[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'B' on an A+ to F scale.
The film was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Remake or Sequel, but lost to Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Box Office History for Anaconda Movies'. The Numbers. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
- ^ abc'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- ^'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'. AllMusic. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
- ^'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes'. Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 19 February 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ^'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004): Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'. Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^''Razzie Award (2005)''.. IMDb
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