Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
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Directed by	Dwight H. Little
Produced by	Verna Harrah
Screenplay by	John Claflin Daniel Zelman Michael Miner Edward Neumeier
Story by	Hans Bauer Jim Cash Jack Epps Jr.
Starring	Johnny Messner KaDee Strickland Matthew Marsden Eugene Byrd Salli Richardson Karl Yune Nicholas Gonzalez Morris Chestnut
Music by	Nerida Tyson-Chew
Cinematography	Stephen F. Windon
Edited by	Marcus D'Arcy Mark Warner
Production company	Middle Fork Productions
Distributed by	Screen Gems
Release date	August 27, 2004 (2004-08-27)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Box office	$71 million

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (also known as Anaconda 2 or Anacondas) is a 2004 adventure horror film directed by Dwight H. Little. It is a stand-alone sequel to the film Anaconda (1997) and the second installment of the Anaconda franchise. 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 for which they believe will bring humans to a longer and healthier life, but soon become stalked and hunted by the deadly anacondas inhabiting the island. The origin of the giant anaconda from the original film is also explained.

Like its predecessor, the film received negative reviews and was a financial success.

A team of researchers funded by a New York pharmaceutical firm Wexel Hall, including Dr. Jack Byron, Gordon Mitchell, Sam Rogers, Gail Stern, Cole Burris, and Dr. Ben Douglas leave for a jungle in Borneo to search for a flower called Perrinnia Immortalis (Spanish for Blood Orchid), which they believe can be used as a type of fountain of youth. Though their guide Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran Wu has misgivings about which path to take, Jack convinces him to take an unsafe path. The team goes over a waterfall and has to wade through the river. A giant anaconda emerges from the water and swallows Ben whole, but the rest of the team escape from the river. Bill assures them that it was the largest snake he has ever seen and that it should take weeks for it to grow hungry again. However, most of the team demand that the expedition be called off. They travel to Bill's friend, John Livingston, who lives on the river, to see if Bill can borrow his boat, but they find Livingston dead and his boat crashed.

They find themselves in a small native village consisting of thatched huts and a disemboweled anaconda with a pair of human legs hanging out of the snake's abdomen. The team realizes that the snakes are unusually large in size because their lives have been extended through the orchids, which are a part of the local food chain. Jack says that since they must be close to the orchids, they should press on. However, the others contend that there is no evidence that the orchids will have the same effect on humans. Wanting to leave, they start building an escape raft.