Anaconda/YMMV
< Anaconda
- Complete Monster: Paul Sarone.
- Magnificent Bastard: Sarone plays everyone like a fiddle in his quest for the snake. Eric Stoltz is the only person who manages to outsmart him even once.
- Moral Event Horizon: In the second film, Jack paralyzing one of his friends with a venomous spider (leading to him getting eaten while immobilized), and stealing the boats so the others are stranded to fend for themselves.
- And then he holds three hostage to make a forth crawl dangerously close to the anaconda mating ball (aka dozens of males around an even bugger female) to get the orchid.
- So it's Laser-Guided Karma when he gets paralyzed by that same spider and fall right into the ball himself.
- And then he holds three hostage to make a forth crawl dangerously close to the anaconda mating ball (aka dozens of males around an even bugger female) to get the orchid.
- Narm Charm: Jon Voight's performance as Paul Sarone is absurdly over the top and its clear that whoever thought that casting Voight as a character with a thick ambiguously South American accent was a good idea was probably high. That said, in a film where the rest of the cast is so clearly apathetic about their performances its not hard to find yourself mesmerized by the pure and total haminess of Voight's performance simply because unlike the rest of the cast he's actually trying.
- Nightmare Fuel: While as noted below most of the CGI isn't that good, the scene in Hunt for the Blood Orchid where the characters are walking through the water and there's clearly a large yellow anaconda gliding between them is downright creepy, along with the cave scenes, which took advantage of Nothing Is Scarier.
- Special Effects Failure: Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics, the anacondas are not inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office. The sequels are even worse.
- Hunt for the Blood Orchid may have had terrible CGI, but it doesn't compare to the sequels that followed it up.
- So Bad It's Good: Many viewers consider this film laughably stupid.