History Film / Anaconda

Monster movie with an AllStarCast ranging from Owen Wilson to Jon Voight to {{Jennifer Lopez}} to {{Ice Cube}} on the hunt (in their own various ways) for the eponymous giant snake. Largely notable for Jon Voight as [[MagnificentBastard Paul Sarone]], [[LargeHam chewing up scenery]] with a far greater appetite than any serpent could muster.

* ''Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid'': Which had a company sending a team into Borneo to find a flower that was supposedly the fountain of youth. Not surprisingly they have to contend with the numerous anacondas to get it.

* ''Anaconda 3: The Offspring'': In which one of the anacondas was captured and experimented on to find out its longevity. It escapes, breaks out its mate and goes on a rampage (made more deadly due to the fact that these anacondas have spear tails from the experiments...no we're not making that up) some mercenaries are sent to get it back. Notable for staring David Hassleholf

* ''Anacondas: Trail of Blood'': Which continues where 3 left off. The offspring of the previous anaconda is found and used to help make the flower. The anaconda breaks out once again while the employer from the last movie sends more mercenaries after the scientist who took the anaconda for his own to get the fountain of youth serum. All the while a previous character from the last movie is looking to destroy it. Yeah its just as confusing and convoluted as it sounds. Oh the snake can regenerate in this one.

!! ''Anaconda'' (1997) provides examples of:

** And they certainly don't regurgitate their prey just so they can hunt again out of sheer sadism. They sometimes do this for safety purposes, such as when they're threatened by a predator and they can't afford to be lethargic by having such a big meal in their stomach.
** They're ''constricters,'' they don't just grab their prey and swallow it. Even when they find a ''dead'' animal, they'll usually constrict it first just to be safe.

* Monster Vision

!! ''Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid'' (2004) provides examples of:

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Gloriously subverted when the [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong whiny]], scared, "we never should have come here" black guy is one of the four people to survive to the end. And all of his complaints were actually valid (and typically considered valid by non IdiotBall holders), if ignored]].

* MonsterVision

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted.

* ''Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid'': Which had a company sending a team into [[DidNotDoTheResearch Borneo]] to find a flower that was supposedly the fountain of youth. Not surprisingly they have to contend with the numerous anacondas to get it.

* ''Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid'': Which had a company sending a team into the Amazon to find a flower that was supposedly the fountain of youth. Not surprisingly they have to contend with the numerous anacondas to get it.

* TheUntwist: Paul spends so much time being a creepy perverted South American, but who is GenreSavvy, some expect him to actually be the good guy. Nope, he's a CardCarryingVillain.

* BadassSpaniard: Sarone.

There were three sequels which oddly enough [[ArcWelding Arc Wielded]] itself across three movies:

* ''Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid'': Which had a company sending a team into the Amazon to find a flower that was supposely the fountain of youth. Not surprisingly they have to contend with the numerous anacondas to get it.

* ''Anaconda 3: The Offspring'': In which one of the anacondas was captures and experimented on to find out its longevity. It escapes, breaks out its mate and goes on a rampage (made more deadly due to the fact that these anacondas have spear tails from the experiments...no we're not making that up) some mercenaries are sent to get it back. Notable for staring David Hassleholf

There were three sequels which oddly enough [[ArcWielding Arc Wielded]] itself across three movies:

* ''Anaconda 3: The Offspring'': In which one of the anacondas was captures and experimented on to find out its longevity. It escapes, breaks out its mate and goes on a rampage (made more deadly due to the fact that these anacondas have spear tails from the experiments...no we're not making that up) some mercenaries are sent to get it back. Notable for staring DavidHassleholf

Monster movie with an AllStarCast ranging from Owen Wilson to Jon Voight to {{Jennifer Lopez}} to {{Ice Cube}} on the hunt (in their own various ways) for the eponymous giant snake. Largely notable for Jon Voight as [[MagnificentBastard Paul Sarone]], [[LargeHam chewing up scenery]] with a far greater appetite than any serpent could muster. There were three sequels; ''Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid'', ''Anaconda 3: The Offspring'', and ''Anacondas: Trail of Blood''. The latter two were direct-to-video, and all three sequels are considered worse than the original.

* FrankWelker: Voices the titular Anaconda.

* UncleTomfoolery

* Badass Spaniard: Sarone.

'''Contains examples of:'''

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Gloriously subverted in ''Hunt for the Blood Orchid'' where the [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong whiny]], scared, "we never should have come here" black guy is on of the four people to survive to the end. And all of his complaints were actually valid (and typically considered valid by non IdiotBall holders), if ignored]].

* MisplacedWildlife: The sequel has anacondas ''in Borneo.''

* SuperPersistentPredator: The ''two'' titular snakes. [[spoiler:And Sarone.]]

* UpToEleven: After having managed to kill the first one, the second anaconda they encounter (at the abondoned factory) is ''even bigger'' than the already gigantic first snake.

* RiverOfInsanity: The search for the Amazonian tribe doesn't go quite as planned...
* SmugSnake: Sarone. When he isn't busy being AxCrazy.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst[=/=]TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Both gloriously averted in ''Hunt for the Blood Orchid'' where the whiny, scared, "we never should have come here" black guy is on of the four people to srurvive to the end. And all of his complaints were actually valid (and typically considered valid by non IdiotBall holders), if ignored.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Oh so very much, all in the name of the RuleOfScary. Among others things:

** Anacondas[[hottip:*:Anaconda is a genus, not a species. It's probably the largest we're dealing with here - ''Eunectus murinus'', the green anaconda]] don't grow that damn big.

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* BigBad: The Anaconda

* TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires