It certainly benefitted from a great cast, a PG-13 rating, an almost decade-long dearth of killer animal films, and dare I say the success of Scream. H-Man wrote: ↑ Wed 4:13 am Python (2000) - I don't think anybody expected Anaconda to be as successful as it was. Nice Guy and Tomorrow Never Dies) as the unhinged member of the team. Martial arts fans will recognize Goetz Otto ( Mr. The film ends with the two leads kissing despite a) they might not make it back to civilization, b) everybody else is dead, and c) two of their friends were killed, but that knowledge never actually reached them-for all they know, they might have been casualties of the Big Explosion. I'm sure it was meant to invoke emotion, but it's annoying and distracts from the drama of the kill. Whenever someone gets offed, Buechler opts for a strobe-light series of quick cuts to earlier scenes involving the character. The movie is also extremely tame on the gore, which is surprising, given who directed it. Too bad we don't see enough of the creature. The creature effects are all practical, which is good. Directed by John Carl Buechler of Carnosaur and Friday the 13th Part VII fame. Lots of people running around corridors, getting separated from the rest of the pack, and killed. Deep Freeze (2002) - aka Ice Crawlers - In this upteenth Alien rip-off, a team of grad students (plus a few grizzled old laborers) are working at an oil-drilling installation in the Antarctic when they discover a giant, live trilobite.
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