Lake Placid vs. Anaconda: Which 90s Creature Feature Is The Better Watch?
In the 1990s 2 separate film series began, Lake Placid about a 30ft killer crocodile terrorizing a lake, and Anaconda, a film where J-Lo and Ice Cube face down an oversized Anaconda in the jungle. Both spawned numerous sequels and began a fascination with oversized regular creature features that has only intensified as the years have gone on.
It's a tale as old as time itself. Humans inadvertently stumble into the habitat of a massive vaguely prehistoric creature, said creature makes a meal of the humans, humans ultimately prevail. Until the sequel. However, in the battle between giant crocodile versus monstrous anaconda, which film is a better watch today?
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Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, and Jon Voight, Anaconda's story follows documentary filmmakers in the Amazon as they travel the rivers and waterways looking for the People of The Mist, a reclusive tribe that lives somewhere in the rainforest. Unfortunately for the crew very shortly after setting off, they come across Jon Voight's unhinged hunter seemingly stranded out on the river.
It's clear that something isn't right with the creepy hunter from the moment they pick him up, there are a lot of meaningful and menacing looks between him and the hired boat captain, and he is very insistent that he knows where the elusive People of The Mist are located. Shortly tragedy befalls the group as a deadly wasp somehow makes its way into the breathing apparatus of Stoltz, stinging him in the mouth and almost killing him. Luckily Voight is able to perform a tracheotomy with a pen and knows how to get to a hospital quicker. Of course, this is all a ruse as he is actually hunting the legendary,
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