Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
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| German title | Mega Python vs. Gatoroid |
| Original title | Mega Python vs. Gatoroid |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Mary Lambert |
| script | Naomi Selfman |
| production | David Michael Latt |
| music | Chris Ridenhour |
| camera | Troy Smith |
| cut | Shawn Thompson |
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Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is an American Monster - Horror of Mary Lambert from 2011 on.
action
Dr. Nikki Riley and two other environmental activists free several exotic pythons from an experimental laboratory and set them free in the Florida Everglades . There they are at the top of the food chain and take on huge proportions. They even start killing the local alligators , prompting ranger Terry O'Hara to give local hunters, including her fiancé Justin, permission to shoot the snakes. The environmentalist group around Nikki protested strongly against this order. During the hunt for the giant snakes, Justin is killed as well as a few hunters. Desperate Terry comes up with a plan to use giant alligators against the giant snakes. Terry's colleague Angie procures steroids and experimental muscle supplements from her grandson Manny to feed the alligators. These then mutate into huge monsters. The animal expert Dr. Diego Ortiz is the first to discover the gigantic alligators and also observes how one is attacked by an equally monstrous python. He tries to stop a fundraising event scheduled for the evening for the Everglades alligators, but Terry falls on deaf ears.
Nikki, Ben, and Gia discover Terry's plan on surveillance videos. While researching the Everglades, they are attacked by giant alligators, which Ben and Gia fall victim to. Diego is able to save Nikki, who tells him about the steroid feedings of the alligators. The already huge pythons in turn eat the contaminated eggs of the alligators, which makes them mutate even more. Meanwhile, the benefit event takes place, at which Micky Dolenz is to appear as the guest of honor. Diego finds a cave in a quarry with thousands of alligator eggs and warns Terry to cancel the event, but she is not convinced. Nikki also appears at the party, and there is a wild fight between the two women. The event is attacked by giant alligators and pythons, to which Micky Dolenz falls victim. Terry, Nicki, Angie and Diego are able to flee to Miami and find that the monsters have already arrived in the city and are devastating it.
Diego decides to use pheromones to lure the monsters out of town and into a quarry in the Everglades to destroy them with the eggs. They want to spray the attractants with an agricultural plane. Terry and Diego fly the plane while Nikki prepares the cave with the eggs with dynamite. The plan seems to work until the plane is attacked by a giant python and has to make an emergency landing. Meanwhile, Nikki is also in distress, as the alligators begin to hatch from their eggs. Terry gets a car and lures the monsters towards the quarry. Once there, she saves Nikki from the alligators. The calls of the hatched alligators and the pheromones attract the monsters. Diego, who was able to free himself from the plane wreck, tries to save the women by helicopter, but Terry is caught by an alligator. The explosive charge is detonated and the monsters killed, but the detonation causes the helicopter to sway, with Nikki falling out and ending up in a river. She survived the fall, but was killed by the last twitching of a python's head that landed next to her.
A year later, Diego opened a redesigned estuary in the Everglades, named after Terry and Nikki.
production
The basic idea of the film is based on the real fact that tiger pythons , actually native to Asia, have been spreading in the Everglades for years and are increasingly decimating the original fauna there. Researchers have even observed attacks by snakes on alligators.
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid was produced by the US production company The Asylum for Syfy television. The company is best known for low-budget horror and action films that often copy well-known films. Asylum also made animal horror films such as Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) and Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010). Mega Python vs. Gatoroid was the first Syfy production to have an official premiere. This took place on January 24, 2011 at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City . Director Mary Lambert achieved international fame through the Stephen King film adaptation, Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals , and she has directed Madonna music videos such as Like a Virgin , Material Girl and Like a Prayer .
Tiffany Darwish and Deborah Gibson were both internationally known pop singers in the 1980s and were considered rivals in the charts and in the favor of their fans. In Mega Python vs. Gatoroid they also play bitter opponents (the tagline of the film is "Screaming, Scratching, Biting ... And that's just THE GIRLS!"). When asked about this fact, Gibson told the New York Times : "We're sorting out our old 80s music rivalry by putting on short skirts and throwing snakes and alligators at each other."
In the original version, song titles by Deborah Gibson and Tiffany are mentioned in two places. At the start of the charity event, Terry says to Nikki, "Only in your dreams!" - a 1986 hit by Deborah Gibson was called Only in My Dreams . At the end of the scuffle between the two women, Nikki says to Terry: "I think ... we're alone now" - a reference to the song I Think We're Alone Now , Tiffany's number one chart success from 1987. Two members also carry in Nikki's animal welfare group fanshirts of the two singers. Micky Dolenz , drummer and singer of the American band The Monkees , plays himself in a guest appearance.
reception
" Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is aimed at the fan, and he is really served, after all, it is a [e] trash grenade that you rarely get to see. Pleasingly irresponsible and self-deprecating, also laid out in a loosely flaky way and without sagging. "
“Director Mary Lambert tried hard to give the film a certain quality of craftsmanship. But in the end it can't do much against effects and main actors who invite others to be ashamed or who enhance the completely meaningless script in any way. So is Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is basically nothing more than a typical run-of-the-mill The Asylum production that cannot be seriously recommended to anyone who is not a steadfast fan of trash. "
“So we're talking about absolute animal horror hardcore trash on the cheapest TV level. (...) Animal horror trash fans will definitely get their money's worth with this production, anyone who expects a blockbuster here will certainly be bitterly disappointed. "
Web links
- Mega Python vs. Gatoroid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Released in the Everglades: Tiger pythons cause damage. ntv.de, accessed on April 23, 2014 .
- ^ A b Brooks Barnes: The Thing That Ate Saturday Night. New York Times, accessed April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Caroline Westbrook: Blasts from the past! 80s pop princesses Debbie Gibson and Tiffany put their rivalry behind them at Mega Python premiere. Daily Mail , accessed April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. schongetested.de, accessed on April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. Moviemaze, accessed April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. (No longer available online.) Tierhorror.de, archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
