Anaconda: The Cursed Jungle 🐍🐍
I watched this movie in the deep night and, me that doesn’t usually get freaked out by movies, at a point thought snakes had entered my house. A very creepy movie!😂
A group of entertainers led by Mr Jin were traveling to America through sea on a low budget boat, but had the intention of stopping at Thailand first before continuing their journey. They met a weird ordeal on their way. The sailor knew the sea very well and how it’s occupied by snakes of different categories. On their way, they met a blockage and decided to blow it off with fireworks, and when they did that, snakes flooded their ship. That scene is so scary and disgusting, especially for someone who doesn’t like the sight of snakes. Snakes were littered everywhere—big and small, poisonous and non-poisonous—and they appeared so real. For one thing, I think the snakes used in this particular scene were not fake. I don’t know how they came up with that, but they weren’t fake at all.
Their journey continued until they met Jeff, a poacher who had been hunting the biggest anaconda in the world. He joined their boat and that’s how the survival mode for all of them was activated. Jeff the poacher was all about catching the giant snake, and nothing else mattered to him to the extent that he started using Mr. Jin’s crew as bait for the snake.
Like I mentioned earlier, the snakes didn’t look fake or computerized at all, and I must give kudos to the crew that made that possible. Even the giant anaconda that I expected to be computerized appeared so real, even in the way it folds, bites, and swallows humans. I felt they used a real snake zone to shoot this movie, and while watching, I just concluded that even if I were paid millions of dollars to be a cast in the snake zone, I wouldn’t take it.
The characters did excellently well too, but at some point, some of them overdid their reactions—especially the small boy in their midst whose mouth was always sharp, constantly forcing out words in a loud tone. It mustn’t be like that always. The comic acts of the characters were so good though. I enjoyed the little bit of unseriousness in the midst of the very serious situation.
Another thing I noticed was the attack of the anaconda. It was picky, taking them one after the other instead of clearing them all at once, even though it had the capacity. That plot doesn’t sit well with me, especially how one of them was using a stick to poke it away and it would run afterwards, meanwhile it’s the humans that are supposed to be afraid of it.
Thanks for reading.