Anaconda
Filmmaker Terri Flores is traveling deep in the Amazon jungle looking for a forgotten tribe. But her film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest, and deadliest, snake.
16 May 1944, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 June 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
12 March 1946, Denver, Colorado, USA
28 April 1967, Brookfield, Connecticut, USA
24 July 1969, The Bronx, New York, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
7 February 1962, Havana, Cuba
21 May 1948, Brisbane, Australia
30 September 1961, Whittier, California, USA
June 10, 2009
In its natural habitat, Anaconda can be appreciated for its campy pleasures, not the least of which is Jon Voight in a delirious, balls-out performance as creepy Paraguayan snake poacher Paul Serone. [Blu-ray]October 18, 2008
A silly and plodding Jaws rip-off about a 40-foot man-eating snake on the prowl in the Brazilian rain forest.January 01, 2000
A trashily entertaining reptilian version of Jaws set in the steaming heart of the Amazon rain forest.January 20, 2009
...never quite lives up to the promise of its admittedly irresistible set-up...May 20, 2011
An above average specimen hungering for tasty morsels.July 06, 2010
Anaconda, directed by Luis Llosa with all of the subtlety of a snake-oil salesman, is in the great tradition of cinematic cheese, as processed as Kraft Singles slices.February 09, 2006
One never questions the realism of the remarkable animatronic and computer-generated effects, but it's hard to credit a snake that screams.July 06, 2010
Just to show, early on, how much danger these folks are in, we get to see the film's titular star squeeze a black panther so tight that one of its eyeballs pops out.August 26, 2006
Luis Llosa's Anaconda is great "B" movie trash, complete with bad special effects and cheesy monsters.February 14, 2001
Anaconda is such a classic combination of feckless dramaturgy and rampant excess that giving way to giggles is the only sane response.May 19, 2008
lives better in the memoryJune 18, 2002
Anaconda is about a snake that eats everybody. That about says it all.