Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (also known as Anaconda 2) is a 2004 American action adventure horror film directed by Dwight H. Little. It is a stand-alone sequel to the film Anaconda (1997) and the second installment in the Anaconda film series. It stars Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden, Eugene Byrd, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Nicholas Gonzalez, Karl Yune and Morris Chestnut. The film follows a team of researchers set for an expedition into the Southeast Asian tropical island of Borneo, to search for a sacred flower which they believe will bring humans to a longer and healthier life. They soon become stalked and hunted by the deadly giant anacondas inhabiting the island.

It was released on August 27, 2004, and the last film in the series to be released theatrically, until 2025. Like its predecessor, the film received mostly negative reviews but was a financial success. The film was followed by a sequel, Anaconda 3: Offspring in 2008.

Plot

A team of researchers funded by New York pharmaceutical firm Wexel Hall, including Gordon Mitchell, Dr. Jack Byron, Sam Rogers, Gail Stern, Cole Burris, and Dr. Ben Douglas, leave for a jungle in Borneo to search for a flower called Perrinnia immortalis--"the Blood Orchid"—that they believe contains a fountain of youth. Jack convinces guide Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran Wu to take an unsafe path despite their misgivings. At one point, Gail falls into the water, loses her phone, and is attacked by a crocodile before Bill rescues her. Their boat goes over a waterfall and breaks apart. A giant anaconda emerges from the water and swallows Ben. The rest of the team reaches the shore. Bill assures them that it is the largest snake he has ever seen and that it should take weeks for it to grow hungry again. However, most of the team demands that the expedition be called off. They call Bill's friend, John Livingston, who lives on the river, to join them, but they find Livingston attacked and his boat wrecked.

They find a small native village, a disemboweled anaconda, a pair of human legs hanging out of the snake's abdomen, and an orchid remaining. The orchids are a part of the food chain, and these snakes grow over unusually long lives. Jack realizes the orchids must be nearby, while Gail contends that the orchids may not work on humans. Jack still wants to find the flowers, but the others rebel and build an escape raft to leave the jungle.

Gordon discovers that Jack has hidden Livingston's radio and gun. The now-psychopathic Jack fails to convince him to continue with the expedition, so he paralyzes Gordon using a previously collected spider to stop him from informing the others. Jack joins the others at the raft, but Sam is suspicious and discovers Gordon and the spider bite. An anaconda swallows Gordon alive as she informs the others, who arrive as it finishes. Bill sets the building on fire but notices the snake has escaped. Jack, left alone, steals the raft.

Unable to make another raft, they hack through the jungle to beat Jack to the orchids and retrieve their raft. On the way, they fall into a cave, trying to escape an anaconda. Cole gets lost and finds human skeletons. He is found by Tran, who then gets pulled under and eaten. Bill finds Tran's lost flashlight floating in bloody water. A terrified Cole escapes from the cave seconds ahead of the snake, which gets stuck in the hole. Sam beheads it with a machete, but another snake captures the hysterical Cole. The team finds him being constricted. Bill kills the snake with a knife, freeing Cole.

The group finds Jack and his raft. Jack shoots Bill in the arm to keep him from attacking and forces the party to accompany him to the orchids, which grow above a pit where a ball of male anacondas mate with the female. Sam must cross the pit via a thin log to fill a backpack with orchids. As she returns, the log cracks. Jack orders her to throw him the backpack. Sam threatens to drop the flowers into the pit, but Jack threatens to shoot the others. The log breaks. As the others try to reach Sam, Jack goes for the backpack. The spider he used earlier escapes from its jar and bites him. He falls into the pit and is devoured. The vine holding Sam also gives way, but she climbs out of the pit as the female anaconda tries to get her. Gail tricks the snake into biting their fuel container. Bill shoots it, but the gun is empty. Cole shoots a flare, immolating the anaconda and exploding the container, killing the other snakes. An ensuing landslide buries the blood orchids. The survivors—Bill, Sam, Gail, and Cole—return to the raft and head to Kota Bharu, as the film ends.

Cast

Music

Soundtrack

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Track listing
  1. Opening Titles / Jungle Floor (2:12)
  2. Elixir Perrinia Immortalis (1:40)
  3. Kong Attacks Gail (2:04)
  4. Stealing the Fruit / Kong Terrified (3:06)
  5. Almost a Kiss (1:20)
  6. Predator in the Water (3:53)
  7. Enter the Jungle (0:56)
  8. Foreboding Path (2:22)
  9. Crossing the Bog (3:29)
  10. Spider of Anaesthesia (2:58)
  11. Livingston's Death (1:05)
  12. All Hope is Lost (1:58)
  13. Lopaks (1:36)
  14. It's Mating Season (3:15)
  15. Totem (1:34)
  16. Jack's Devious Deal Uncovered (1:23)
  17. Betrayal of Trust (2:28)
  18. The Cavern (6:31)
  19. Climbing to the Light (6:02)
  20. Discovering the Orchids / Face Off (11:14)

Reception

Box office

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid debuted at second place in the box office, earned $32.2 million in the United States and an international gross of $38.8 million, bringing a worldwide total of $71 million.<ref name=mojo/>

Critical reception

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Roger Ebert awarded the film two out of four stars, a rating less than that he gave the original film. Ebert, however, praised Matthew Marsden's performance as being "suitably treacherous".<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> Keith Philipps of The A.V. Club criticized the movie for its CGI snakes, while The Oregonian's Karen Karbo said it never "takes itself too seriously".<ref name="metacr"/> Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Accolades

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