Amanda Hayes (Crystal Allen), still traumatised by her experiences last time, has dedicated herself to find Peter's lab and eradicating it, destroying any risk of the giant snakes making their way into the world once and for all she runs into Alex (Călin Stanciu), a hiker, and drags him into her quest. Wexel Hall executive Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies, given more to do than in Offspring, but does it with less hammy élan) sends a team led by Eugene (Emil Hostina) - ah, yes, "Eugene", great bone-chilling name for a mercenary - to find Peter's serum. Shortly after thus catching us up to speed, he is devoured by his own creation. Peter has discovered that the right distillation of hybrid blood orchids can not only prolong life, but effectively make his subjects invincible: he has found his anacondas can even re-grow their heads, in a goofy and delightful visual effect that goes right up to the limits of what this film's CGI budget can afford, and what level of gore the Sci Fi Channel censors are comfortable with. I was definitely not expecting this level of commitment to series mythology in the fourth Anaconda film, but I'm honestly a little charmed by it. The thing this time: in the wake of the last film, Wexel Hall scientist Peter Reysner (Zoltan Butuc) has gone rogue, taking the last surviving test anaconda to a mine deep in the Romanian woods, where he has managed to create a stable population of blood orchids to continue his experiments. The story basically just does one thing, unlike the two-things-with-a-prologue approach taken by that film, which is appreciated in the context of a made-for-cable movie about a mutant CGI snake. It's considerably better-paced, most importantly: at 89 minutes, it's only two minutes shorter than Offspring, but it's not remotely as draggy and disordered. Comparing the two films, there's absolutely no contest: the fourth movie in the Anaconda franchise (and the last one, barring a 2015 crossover with the Lake Placid franchise) is a distinct, if not always substantial improvement on its immediate predecessor. You can check out other movies in our snake movies list.I will say this for 2009's Anacondas: Trail of Blood - it's not much, but I'll say it - it's surprising that a film made directly back-to-back with Anaconda 3: Offspring isn't much worse. The snake horror Anaconda series features also Anaconda, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and Anaconda 3: Offspring.Ĭrystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter, Calin Stanciu, Ana Ularu, Claudiu Bleont, Anca-Ioana Androne, Emil Hostina, Alexandru Potocean, John Rhys-Davies, Dan Badarau, Marcel Cobzariu, Elias Ferkin, Razvan Gheorghiu, Vasile Albinet, Zoltan Butuc, David Frye, Cristina Teodorescu. This time Amanda will be forced to bring together, in secrecy, her own team of scientists that will face off against the heavily armed squad of Murdoch's men to try and steal the rare orchids before the killer Anaconda hunts both teams down and kills everyone.īut this time, the blood Orchid provide the snakes the ability to regenerate themselves, only destroying their major organs can kill them. When he hires a new doctor to collect a fresh supply of blood orchids flowers to do experiments with the regenerative compound on a baby anaconda snake so he can find treatment for his own terminal cancer. The movie picks up immediately where Anaconda 3 left off, scientist and herpetologist Amanda Hayes finally learns the truth about her employer Peter Murdoch.
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