It was also nominated for two including Best Actress ; who lost to for and Best Horror Film which went to. They are then forced to help him achieve his true objective—hunting down and capturing a record-breaking he had been tracking. Afterwards, Terri and Danny reunite with Cale, who begins to revive on the boat. Danny punches the drugged Serone, knocking him into the river. Terri finds a nest of baby normal sized anacondas in a building, but the snake arrives and, after regurgitating the still twitching Serone, chases her up a smoke stack. .
With Westridge killed in the fall, the snake coils itself around Danny, only to be shot in the head by Terri. Unexpectedly, ivan nds himself in the middle of the battle between the good and evil. They realize too late that he's using them to find a legendary anaconda that's worth a fortune -- if they can catch it. The filming took place in the mid-spring and summer 1996. Mateo is the first of the crew to be killed by the anaconda, which coils around him and then breaks his neck near the boat where the poacher had been killed. However, Terri and Danny are soon re-captured when Serone catches up to them. June 2016 and were the first choices for the role of Terri Flores whose last name was originally Porter , but they passed due to scheduling conflicts with both and respectively before signed on.
Serone performs an emergency , seemingly saving Cale's life. The film is listed in founder 's book as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. Before it can kill him, the tree supporting the anaconda breaks, sending everyone into the water and waking up Cale. When Denise attempts to kill Serone as revenge for Gary's death, he gets the edge and strangles her to death with his legs before dumping her body in the river. Even though no characters from the first film appear in the sequels, in the second film they are referenced by the character Cole Burris, when he says he knows a man Warren Westridge and another man Danny Rich that took a crew down to the Amazon and they were all eaten by the snakes; in Lake Placid vs. When the anaconda returns, Westridge distracts it long enough for Terri and Danny to return to the boat while he ascends the waterfall. Reports of dragon attacks spread like wildfire through the panicked land.
The anaconda appears and coils itself around Terri and Danny and begins to suffocate them. The survivors overcome Serone and tie him up. Terri and Danny cut their bonds and watch in horror as the anaconda slowly swallows Serone whole. Danny ignites a fire below the smoke shack and burns the snake alive. When Serone attempts to capture the snake, it crushes Gary, killing and eating him, leaving Denise devastated. The burning anaconda is sent flying out of the building and plunges into the water where it sinks. While shooting a documentary about a long-lost indigenous tribe, the Shirishamas, on the , director Terri Flores and members of her crew—including cameraman Danny Rich , production manager Denise Kalberg , her boyfriend, sound engineer Gary Dixon , visionary Warren Westridge , anthropologist Professor Steven Cale , and boat skipper Mateo —come across stranded snake hunter Paul Serone and help him, believing he knows how to find the tribe they are searching for.
Serone tries to escape, but the anaconda finally manages to coil itself around him and suffocate him. Later at night, the anaconda attacks the boat. He dumps a bucket of monkey blood on them and uses them as bait in an attempt to capture a second, larger anaconda. With that, Serone takes command of the boat and the crew. Later, while trying to free the boat's propeller from a rope, Cale is stung in the throat by a inside his , which swells his throat shut and leaves him unconscious.
Danny and the freed Serone fight, as Westridge is coiled by the snake. As they float down the river, they accidentally locate the natives for whom they were originally searching. He has to nd out why everyone thinks that he should play the main role in the occurring events…. The next day, the boat becomes stuck at a waterfall, requiring Terri, Danny, and Westridge to enter the water to winch it loose. It centers on a crew who have been taken hostage by a snake hunter who is going after the legendary , which is discovered in the. Now, after years of absence, a new danger emerges, more lethal than the threat of orcs or men.
The film received mixed reviews but was a success and was followed by. Terri and her crew, which includes an anthropologist Eric Stoltz and a cameraman Ice Cube , come across Paul Jon Voight , who is stranded on the riverbank. They are caught in a net by Serone, but the snake breaks free. As Terri and Danny recuperate on a nearby dock, the anaconda appears one final time before Danny slams a splitting maul into the snake's head, killing it. Danny traps the anaconda by pinning its tail to the ground with a.
While it breaks through the boat, the poacher commits suicide. The others try to find him while Gary sides with Serone, who promises if they help him find the anaconda, he will help them get out alive. A photograph in an old newspaper reveals that Mateo, Serone, and the unnamed poacher were working together to catch animals, including snakes. He offers to help them find the tribe, but his secretive behavior puts everyone on edge. They realize Serone was right and begin filming their documentary as the film ends.