Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

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Movie
German title Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Original title Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Dwight H. Little
script John Claflin ,
Daniel Zelman ,
Michael Miner ,
Edward Neumeier
production Verna Harrah
music Nerida Tyson-Chew
camera Stephen F. Windon
cut Marcus D'Arcy ,
Mark Warner
occupation
chronology

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Anaconda

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Anaconda - Offspring

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (Original title: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid ) is an American horror film from 2004 . The film is the sequel to Anaconda from 1997.

action

The legendary blood orchid , a plant with a life-prolonging agent, grows in the forests of Borneo . A team goes on an expedition on behalf of a New York pharmaceutical company to find the plant. However, the orchid only blooms for half a year every seven years, and there are only two weeks left to find the plant in bloom.

The expedition falls in the rainy season , so no shipowner is willing to sail the river except for Bill Johnson. This brings the team to the desired goal for a lot of money. During the trip it turns out that the shortening river, which would prevent a detour for days, is so swollen by the rain that it cannot be navigated. However, the helmsman agrees to continue after being offered double the wage.

When the team had an accident with the ship, they were forced to take the route directly through the jungle. Nobody suspects that the mating season of the anacondas has begun. The animals are extremely large due to the fact that they grow for a lifetime and live much longer because of the blood orchid they consume. A struggle for survival begins for the team.

After several deaths among the expedition members, a self-built raft seems to be the salvation. The initiator of the expedition and head of the pharmaceutical company's expedition team, Dr. Jack Byron, however, wants to find the rare and likely valuable plant for the company no matter what. Byron uses a poisonous spider to paralyze team member Gordon Mitchel, who uses a satellite phone to report the team's plight and call for help, and then rushes to the aid of the paralyzed and snake-attacked Mitchel when the other team members try to help just ride the raft on your own and drive away the others to find the valuable rare plant and take possession of it on your own. The rest of the team, abandoned by Byron and without a boat and without aids (tools and food were already loaded on the self-built boat or raft), decides to continue on foot through the jungle and the boat (or raft) to Byron potential target, the place where the blood orchid grows. On the way through the giant snake-infested jungle there, the team members have to fight the giant anacondas. When Dr. Byron has reached the goal after a while, he tries to harvest a blood orchid he discovered, but he becomes aware that the other team members are approaching through the jungle. The blood orchids are located above a pit with a large mating knot of the anacondas with a huge female and several males. Dr. Byron threatens the team members with a revolver, injures the ship's captain Bill Johnson, has an assistant handcuffed and asks his colleague Gail Stern to fetch the flowers of the plant, which are difficult and dangerous to reach above the snake pit, while he takes turns between her and her colleague Sam Roger threatened with the revolver. His colleague manages this, but then a fight breaks out in which Dr. Byron falls into the snake pit and is devoured. The rest of the team manages to ignite the female with gasoline and a flare. This triggers an avalanche in agony that buries all anacondas, and the rock wall on which the blood orchid grew, falls with it. The four survivors end up taking the raft back to civilization.

criticism

The film received mostly poor reviews. Heiko Rosner wrote for the magazine Cinema : " Anacondas: The hunt for the blood orchid" is trash of the annoying kind. The tricks are bad, the snakes don't look creepy, they look stupid, and the best performance is performed by a monkey. What for it took seven authors to make this film, but only the residents of the RTL jungle camp will understand. Conclusion: half-baked snakes with ridiculously unrealistic special effects. "

The cinema review site filmszene.de also found little good in the film: “In a nutshell : Involuntarily amusing horror trash with an appealing look and an exotic setting (shot on the Fiji islands), which is much better off in the video library. Definitely a hot contender for flop 5 of the year. "

Thomas Ays criticized the bad animation of the snake on moviesection.de, but certified the film as surprisingly good action scenes and a credible acting performance. In his conclusion he writes: “ Certainly,“ Anacondas - On the Hunt for the Blood Orchid ”is not a profound masterpiece and also not a milestone in film history, but a nice and sometimes even funny piece of action entertainment that certainly doesn't shy away from the comparison to the first part got to. "

Remarks

Anacondas do not occur in the Pacific region and therefore also on Borneo, but are exclusively native to the South American continent (mainly Venezuela ). Anaconda attacks on humans are also extremely rare and are almost always based on misconduct by humans towards the snake. Usually the snake always flees from people.

Awards

The film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry in 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2004 (PDF; test number: 100 569 K).
  2. ↑ Age identification for anacondas: The hunt for the blood orchid . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Cinema.de: Film review for Anacondas: The hunt for the blood orchid . Retrieved September 2, 2010.
  4. ^ Filmszene.de: Anacondas . Retrieved September 2, 2010.
  5. ↑ Moviesection.de: Anacondas - On the hunt for the blood orchid . Retrieved September 2, 2010.