{"id":16054,"date":"2015-08-05T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T01:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2015-08-05T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T01:20:30","slug":"lake-placid-vs-anaconda-2015-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/05\/lake-placid-vs-anaconda-2015-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015) (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you wanted Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, damn it all it\u2019s what you get with this new crossover. Like most films of this ilk, you\u2019re mainly tuning in to watch a lot of really obnoxious characters die brutal deaths, it\u2019s just a shame a lot of it is off screen. Perhaps that\u2019s because this is primarily a TV movie, but I was disappointed to see a lot of the deaths were cut aways and mostly kept sanitary; when you have a giant crocodile and giant snake chomping down on gorgeous sorority girls, that\u2019s just downright criminal. With a movie like this you can\u2019t expect a masterpiece, and oddly enough I went in to it with rock bottom expectations. Did that mean it pleased me proficiently? Not really.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know, but these kinds of movies are just cheap cash ins, and that\u2019s what this movie feels exactly like. I don\u2019t know many fans each of the franchises have, but for the most part, the Anaconda and giant alligator don\u2019t battle until the very end. For the duration of the movie we watch Yancy Butler running around trying to prevent people from being eaten, while the giant alligator and snake do what they do best: Terrorize and snack. The special effects are on par with what you\u2019d find with most of these movies, and they\u2019re adequate for the most part. This time around a scientific group has captured both the anaconda and giant alligator, and using the blood orchid, they alter their DNA\u2019s in hopes of producing more of their kind. The giant Alligator awakens from his slumber though, and begins wreaking havoc across the lake placid, all the while his slithery contemporary is also having a good time wrapping around and devouring people.<\/p>\n

The movie sets up a lot of cannon fodder with a game and wildlife team investigating the accident, a father and son hunting team scouring the woods for game, and to add a little spice, there\u2019s a giant group of sorority girls prone to hazing that are at the lake. The film references both franchises with a lot of lip service paid to previous films, and Robert Englund even shows up for a walk on as a hunter who helped catch the alligator on the lake. It\u2019s a shock such a giant alligator is able to sneak around without being spotted, but surely enough it\u2019s able to hide under beds, in lakes and behind trees. The first \u201cLake Placid\u201d made it impossible for it to be remotely stealth. But I don\u2019t apply logic to a film this silly. For the most part it succeeds in cheesy C grade \u201cso bad it\u2019s good\u201d horror, with a lot of irritating characters getting their just deserts. I just wish there was more splatter to color the film along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you wanted Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, damn it all it\u2019s what you get with this new crossover. Like most films of this ilk, you\u2019re mainly tuning in to watch a lot of really obnoxious characters die brutal deaths, it\u2019s just a shame a lot of it is off screen. Perhaps that\u2019s because this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[58,219,477,590,711,906,922],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-packed-april","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-l","tag-nature-run-amok","tag-science-fiction","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}