Movie Night - Monster Movies

I was in the mood for a movie night. I already knew one movie I wanted to watch, so I had to think of a theme. I went with monster movies, which I’m a sucker for. I chose three completely different types of monster movies. I won’t review them here, but will give you links to the reviews of the movies we viewed.
 
I watched all three movies on my own.
 

The first film I watched was the one that gave me this theme idea: “Love and Monsters”,  starring Dylan O’Brien. It’s a new release and it just came out on Netflix. It’s a super fun film, a movie I enjoyed even more than I thought I would. It’s a film I would most definitely rewatch someday. Check out my review HERE
 

Number two is a rewatch. A movie best viewed on the big screen, which I did the first time around. “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” recently dropped on Netflix and I immediately knew I was going to watch it again. Everything you wish for in a Godzilla movie. And the perfect preparation for the upcoming “Godzilla Vs. Kong”,  which I’m super excited for and hope to see as soon as cinemas reopen. Check out my review HERE
 

Save the best for last they say. Well, not in this case. I picked “Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid” after scrolling through Netflix for quite some time. This movie is terrible. It’s a sequel to “Anaconda” from 1997, starring Jennifer Lopez, which was already not a very great movie. And this is just a piece of shit. Check out my review HERE
 
So, I loved two out of three. Not bad. What are some of your favorite monster movies, let me know!

00s Movie Review - Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

Director: Dwight Little
Genre: Horror/ Adventure/ Action/ Thriller
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 2004
Starring: Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Morris Chestnut, Matthew Marsden, Nicolas Gonzalez, Eugene Byrd, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Karl Yune, Andy Anderson

Description: A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant longer life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.

Review: “Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid” is the sequel nobody asked for, to the 1997 film “Anaconda”. That film was already not that great, but at least it had some familiar faces in its cast. And it was somewhat entertaining. “Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid” has none of that.
The film has all the typical things a teenage slasher film would have, but for once not in a desolate cabin in the woods. This time deep in the jungles of Borneo, Indonesia. Home to not only giant snakes, but also rare orchids. These so-called blood orchids bring eternal youth and are also the food of the snakes who never die from eating them and keep growing in size. A group of scientist, or what must pass for them, decide to do something about their insignificant youthful existence, namely to look for a flower that will make them… young. Hopeless.
Apparently this film had a pretty solid budget, but there is no proof of that. The CGI is crappy, the acting is terrible and the dialogues are cringeworthy.
It’s a terrible film, that’s a sequel to an already not that great  monster movie. Skip it if you can.

Rating: 1/ 5