Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

Name: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 27, 2004
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Eugene Byrd, KaDee Strickland, Morris Chestnut

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Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: August 27, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Eugene Byrd, KaDee Strickland, Morris Chestnut

Summary: This horror-thriller, set in a primitive Borneo jungle, involves a group of scientists on a dangerous journey in search of an extremely rare blood orchid that is rumored to be the source of a youth-preserving serum. (Screen Gems)

Director: Dwight H. Little

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 97 min

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Sufficient cheap thrills and enough of the prevailing camp quality. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Funny, suspenseful, and well paced, this is definitely the summer's best time waster. Read full review

Karen Karbo

The charming thing about Anacondas is that it neither takes itself too seriously nor is it steeped in postmodern irony. Read full review

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Director Dwight Little, who has made many mediocre films as well as the gleefully gory Robert Englund version of "The Phantom of the Opera," gets at least one thing right -- he really does take time to establish the characters. Read full review

Robert Dominguez

It's never a good sign when the creepiest moment in a movie about monstrous 50-foot snakes is the sight of 2-inch leeches sucking on someone's back. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

There's no enjoyably outlandish hiss to this variation on the formula, and no Ice Cube or Owen Wilson, either. This time, a ship of capitalist fools (and no movie stars, unless you count utility player Morris Chestnut as a headliner) steams along the river in Borneo. Read full review

Keith Phipps

When the CGI snakes finally arrive, they look like they've just returned from a guest spot on "Charmed;" if the film had cut any more corners, it would have had to borrow graphics from an old Intellivision game. Read full review

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KatlynS.

May 15, 2006

The movie was great. I loved it and have watched it over 100 times in a week i loved it so much. I recomend that you should get it it is great.

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LandonL.

Mar 24, 2006

It was preety good but the first one was better.

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GanadoGamer001

Jan 14, 2020

Ótimos efeitos especiais e uma tensão percorrida a perseguição assassina muito bem produzida e envolvente...

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Sam

Aug 24, 2005

Is it amazing? like the first one, hell no. I mean, dear GOD it's far from amazing, what the hell was amazing about it?!?! Well, that one character was cool, as was the monkey, and Mitchell, but other than that it's FAR from amazing. It's an okay film, but dear god, the first Is it amazing? like the first one, hell no. I mean, dear GOD it's far from amazing, what the hell was amazing about it?!?! Well, that one character was cool, as was the monkey, and Mitchell, but other than that it's FAR from amazing. It's an okay film, but dear god, the first time I saw it, it was a decent movie that shouldn't be taken seriously, the second time I saw it, I decide to test it and took it seriously. Boy did it suck that time. I prefer the first one, but please, don't come out with a third one and if you do, make it a quality movie with excellent effects, and for god sake, SHOW THE PEOPLE GET FULLY EATEN! MORE THAN JON VOIGHT IN THE FIRST ONE!… Expand

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Panchogul

Sep 24, 2020

Este es el tipo de películas que bien podrías disfrutar un domingo por la tarde en la TV, eso como mucho.

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juliankennedy23

Jun 13, 2014

Anacondas The Hunt for the Blood Red Orchid: 4/10: I had the following criticisms of the first Anaconda. How did the snakes get to the Amazon when they live hundreds of miles away in the Ecuadorian swamps, man those CGI snakes look really fake, and you know what this movie is missing? SomeAnacondas The Hunt for the Blood Red Orchid: 4/10: I had the following criticisms of the first Anaconda. How did the snakes get to the Amazon when they live hundreds of miles away in the Ecuadorian swamps, man those CGI snakes look really fake, and you know what this movie is missing? Some racist comic relief, you now with the scaredy cat black guy who follows Bob Hope around looking for ghosts. Well they answered my third concern.

The anacondas are still in the jungle now the film makers have now moved them to Borneo, which is in Asia, which seems a rather large slither from the swamps of Ecuador, in South America. It's kind of like finding tigers in Africa. (Perhaps the snakes escaped from a zoo.)

The snakes look okay while under water but fail miserably while airborne. Of course most snakes don't do flying well. (Though that would be an interesting explanation for their intercontinental migration.) The snake doesn't even really look right and the effects guys in the extras admit it is a combination of many snakes. (This must explain the fangs and why anacondas in the movie are surprisingly flammable.) Apparently real anacondas don't have the right 'tude.

With English accented villains, ship crushing waterfalls and paralyzing spiders, the movie comes awfully close to not needing the snakes at all. (This is my Amityville Horror 2 rule. In which the family was so awful a haunted house seemed redundant)

As for the actors only two stand out Morris Chestnut as the horrible and embarrassing black comic relief, and the monkey who is by far the best actor in the film and definitely needs a new agent. I'm serious the monkey has a Jack Nicholson Five Easy Pieces breakout performance.

Another helpful hint,if lost in the jungles of Borneo don't try to build a raft to Kota Bharu like the characters in the movie do. It is about a thousand kilometers of open ocean away as the anaconda flies.… Expand

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FitriAmirrol

Nov 19, 2010

Realistically and logically improbable, Blood Orchid fails to match up to its more entertaining predecessor; It is inappropriately serious and the comic reliefâ

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