Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

A pharmaceutical company sends a scientific expedition into the jungles of Borneo to find a rare black orchid believed to hold the key to prolonged life and renewed youth. The team's search runs into trouble when the rainy season forces them to hire a questionable boat captain and his rundown vessel. After a wreck leaves them stranded, they discover that the flower's effects extend to the local snakes, which have grown to enormous size. The group must find a way through the forest while avoiding the giant predators.

Dwight H. Little directed the film, the ninth of the eleven features listed in his filmography, arriving between Boss of Bosses and Tekken. The screenplay is credited to Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner and John Claflin, with Verna Harrah producing. Johnny Messner plays Bill Johnson, KaDee Strickland appears as Sam Rogers, Matthew Marsden as Dr. Jack Byron, Eugene Byrd as Cole Burris, Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Gail Stern and Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Ben Douglas. It runs 96 minutes.

Made for about 20 million dollars, the film took in roughly 71 million worldwide, a solid return on its budget. Audience scores sit below the midpoint, at 4.8 on IMDb from around 37,000 votes and 5.5 on TMDB from about 1,140 votes. A critics' rating of 4.2 from 120 reviews places it close to those audience figures.