Piranhaconda

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Movie
German title Piranhaconda
Original title Piranhaconda
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jim Wynorski
script J. Brad Wilke ,
Mike MacLean
production Forest King
music Al Kaplan ,
Jon Kaplan
camera Andrea Rossotto
cut Tony Randel
occupation

Piranhaconda is an American animal horror and trash film about a mutated giant snake from 2012 by Jim Wynorski .

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Piranhaconda is about a pair of mutated giant snakes, a mixture of giant anacondas and piranhas that live on an island and hunt people there. The story begins with a professor, Professor Lovegrove, who comes to the island with a small team and looks for rare reptile eggs. When he finds a nest with the eggs he is looking for and packs one up, they are attacked by a gigantic, snake-like creature that kills all other team members apart from him. The helicopter pilot who wants to escape with his helicopter is jumped at by the queue and crashes with the aircraft. Professor Lovegrove manages to escape, but is caught shortly afterwards by a group of criminals who want to arrest him for a ransom and who do not believe the story of the monster. There is also a film team on the island making a low-budget film. After the day of shooting, an actress is also eaten by one of the monsters, other people follow later without the film crew noticing. Some people are introduced who have nothing to do with the rest of the plot, for example a group of three young women who are looking for a rare plant and are then also eaten. It turns out that there are two Piranhacondas on the island.

After the financier of the film crew stops the film work, the director Milo wants to leave the island together with the leading actress Kimmy Weston, the scriptwriter Rose, the actor Jack and the pyrotechnician Pike. On the way they are also stopped and captured by the kidnappers, but Jack and Pike manage to escape into the jungle and they can escape their pursuers, where one of the criminals is eaten by the snake. When Milo tries to complain, he is shot in the foot by one of the kidnappers. One of the kidnappers finds the research team's video camera documenting the snake's attack and brings it to his boss. The captured film team is brought to the professor who tells them the story of the Piranhaconda. Rose tries to escape by pretending to be flirting with one of the kidnappers - but comes across one of the snakes in the jungle and returns in panic. Meanwhile, Jack and Pike try to free their teammates with the help of explosives and captured weapons. In the middle of the rescue operation, the kidnappers are attacked by one of the snakes and the film crew manage to escape together with the professor, but without Milo, who gives his people fire protection, and Pike, who is killed in the exchange of fire.

On the run, the crew is pursued by the Piranhaconda and the criminals whose boss wants to take revenge for the loss of his girlfriend, who was also eaten. The snake overtakes the vehicle and cuts off the team, while the kidnapper's boss tries to shoot them down with a bazooka. With a driving maneuver, Jack manages to avoid the missile that kills the snake. Meanwhile, the second, larger snake kills Milo and a vacationing couple before it also starts chasing the film team and the kidnappers. Shortly afterwards, on the beach, she kills the entire kidnapping team who want to catch the crew and shoot Jack, as well as the actress Kimmy Weston, who wants to save herself in the car. Rose and Jack split up and Rose escapes on a boat with Professor Lovegrove. Here a dispute breaks out over the egg that is being carried and the snake pursues them. Rose throws it overboard, but the professor tries to do it again, falls overboard himself and is also eaten by the snake. It turns out that Rose was just faking the egg toss. She drives to the bank and is picked up by Jack, together they flee on a quad bike and lure the snake with the egg behind them. At a waterfall, they prepare the egg with explosives and throw it into the piranhaconda's throat, where it explodes and kills the monster while jumping into the waterfall. At the end they kiss - in the very last scene, however, they too are eaten by a snake suddenly rushing through the camera image.

background

The film was produced as a television film in 2012 by the film company New Horizons Pictures . The recordings were mainly shot on the island of Kaua'i , Hawaii . The release in the United States took place on June 16, 2012 on the US broadcaster Syfy . The film was released in Germany on August 1, 2013 directly on DVD and Blu-ray . As with numerous other animal horror films by producer Roger Corman such as Sharktopus or Dinocroc vs. In Piranhaconda , too, Supergator focuses on a monster mutated from several animals with corresponding abilities. Corman worked with director Jim Wynorski on Dinocroc vs. Supergator together, he also directed other animal horror films such as Camel Spiders and erotic films such as The Devil Wears Nada .

The total budget for Piranhaconda is estimated at around $ 1 million.

Reviews

“Jim Wynorski, who has made around 100 trash films since 1985, feeds six bikini girls to the computer cartoon monsters in the first twenty minutes. That quickly becomes very bland. "

- TV movie

“There is good trash and there is bad trash. There are films that are entertaining and there is plenty of rubbish that ends up in a place where it can be disposed of without any complications: the scrap press. Production studios like ASYLUM and SYFY CHANNEL have proven that you can make a lot of money even with ultra-lousy trash and that there are even movie fans out there with too much money who can make this waste by buying DVDs and Blu-rays crank. The highly intellectual “masterpiece” PIRANHACONDA is one of those films whose raison d'etre will probably never be found out. "

- filmchecker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Piranhaconda . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; test number: 136 511 V).
  2. ↑ Presentation on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on April 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Review on the Filmchecker blog, accessed April 12, 2016.