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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Horror /
Thriller
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Director:
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Dwight H. Little
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Actors:
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Johnny Messner,
KaDee Strickland,
Salli Richardson-Whitfield,
Nicholas Hope,
Karl Yune,
Khoa Do,
Aireti,
Andre Tandjung,
Matthew Marsden,
Nicholas Gonzalez,
Eugene Byrd,
Morris Chestnut,
Andy Anderson,
Peter Curtin,
Denis Arndt
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(4.2/10)114
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Plot Summary:
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A scientific celerity sets out in behalf of Borneo to aim a creme de la creme called the Blood Orchid, which could grant longer vitality. Meanwhile, they memorize a pierce afoul of snakes and each other.
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
"Everything gets eaten out here. It's the jungle," declares one of the characters in the jumbo snake comedy Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
One thing that survives, however, is the movie's lush, jungle foliage, as none of the actors here gnaw the scenery with anywhere near the gusto Jon Voight mustered in the 1997 hit Anaconda, to which this is a follow-up.
Strictly speaking, Anacondas is not a comedy but a horror-thriller that feeds on the foolishness of its predecessor. It's actually funnier than most of the so-called comedies we've been punished by this summer and provides a steady stream of yuks in nearly equal doses of the intentional and unintentional variety. Zingy one-liners collide with the kind of deadly earnest scientific mumbo-jumbo g...
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
A group of pharmacologists set out to find a rare orchid but are harried by enormous snakes. Adventure horror movie set in Borneo and a vague sequel to the 1997 Jennifer Lopez film
A follow-up to Anaconda, the film that featured the likes of Jon Voigt and Eric Stoltz getting eaten by a giant snake in the Amazon, Anacondas The Hunt For The Blood Orchid effectively follows the same formula: remote jungle, urbanites on a mission up river, a monster and death. But then, it's hardly an original formula. The plot of both films is essentially a variation on that established by one of the paradigm monster movies, 1954's Creature From The Black Lagoon (but without the unexpectedly sympathetic and intelligent antagonist).
In fact, anyone looking ...
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