Anaconda II

                  The hunters will become the hunted.

The film begins with a native of Borneo in the Jungle. He appears to be unafraid as he is attacked by a tiger, but runs at the sight of a giant anaconda. As the native is lifted up into the air he manages to stab the anaconda. The chase continues until the native falls down a cliff into a pool of water covered with orchid leaves. In the pool he is eventually caught and is dragged under water, facing his death.

A team of researchers sets off into the jungle in Borneo to search for the fictional blood orchid, which they believe could be an equivalent to the fountain of youth in its importance to life extension. Bill Johnson, their de facto guide, has misgivings, but Dr. Jack Byron bribes him to stay on the river. The team is soon going down a waterfall and find themselves wading through the river. Ben attempts to scare Gail with the infamous Jaws theme and is soon pulled underwater. Gail thinks that he is joking until a giant anaconda emerges from the water and swallows him whole. The rest of the team make it out of the river.

To the dismay of Dr. Byron, almost every member of the team wants to call off the expedition, in spite of Bill's reassurances that the snake was the largest he had ever seen and that it will take it weeks to digest their friend before it gets hungry again. The group decides to find Bill's friend's boat. However, even though anacondas usually are territorial, natures biological clock has struck midnight for them. It's mating season, and every anaconda for miles around will be coming in for a female. They find themselves in a small native village consisting of thatched huts with a dead and disemboweled anaconda prominently displayed, with a pair of human legs hanging out of the snake's abdomen. The team realizes that the snakes are unusually large in size because their lives have been extended because the orchids are a part of the local food chain, as is the chemical they contain that prolongs life (Anacondas keep growing until they die). Dr. Byron decides that they are close to the orchids and should press on with almost maniacal determination. The others contend that there is no evidence that the orchids will have the same effect on humans and start building an escape raft.

Meanwhile, Gordon discovered Dr. Byron's radio and gun, realizing that he could have called for help long ago. Dr. Byron attempts to convince him not to use the radio, an act he claims will end the expedition. He paralyzes him with a spider that they captured earlier in the swamp (described earlier in the film as a "stone spider" for its venom, which can paralyze for two days) when he cannot be dissuaded. As Dr. Byron joins the others by the raft, Sam discovers a paralyzed Gordon and notices the spider bite on his arm. Simultaneously, an anaconda drops down from the rafters and swallows Gordon alive soon after she leaves the room. The others appear and Bill sets the building on fire, presumably killing the snake. However, in the commotion, Dr. Bryon steals the raft to pursue the orchid on his own, leaving the others.

As the others realize that their raft has been stolen, and the last of the raft building materials have burned down, they realize that the only way to get their raft back is to beat Dr. Byron to the orchid (a feat they can accomplish by bushwacking through the jungle because of the numerous twists and turns in the river). On the way they fall into a cave trying to escape an anaconda. In the cave Cole gets lost and his flashlight stops working. He manages to make it work again, only to discover there is a skeleton in front of him. He panics and runs into Tran. He and Tran try to make it back to the others, but Tran is pulled through a hole in the ground that leads to an underwater area. He tries to find a way back up, but is struck hard in the stomach by an anaconda and is subsequently dragged to the depths. His flashlight floats to the surface illuminating the water as it is stained a deep red with Tran's blood and Cole runs, panic-struck. Cole luckily locates the team as they escape the caves; just seconds before the pursuing anaconda would've caught him. The anaconda follows Cole through the hole they discovered, but becomes trapped. Seizing the opportunity, Sam is able to take the knife and beheads the gargantuan snake in one strike. Cole showers Sam with praise and adulation, but is unfortunately captured by yet another anaconda; fortunately, the snake had bit into Cole's rucksack, rather than Cole himself, and they immediately proceed after him. They find the anaconda coiled about a tree, in the process of constructing Cole. Thinking fast, Bill deftly throws his knife, impaling the snake through the head and saving Cole's life.

The group discovers the raft, just as Dr. Byron finds the motherload of Blood orchids, which happens to hang precariously above the anaconda mating pit. Dr. Byron senses their presence, shoots Bill in the arm, and forces the party to accompany him to the orchids. Dr. Byron commands Sam to fill a backpack with orchids, a task which requires a perilous crossing of the mating pit via a thin log. As the log starts to crack on her way back, Dr. Byron orders her to throw him the backpack, and Sam counters by threatening to drop the flowers into the pit unless he drops the gun. As the log breaks, Sam and the backpack fall, ending up half way in the pit, perilously close to the immense snakes. Sam begins to climb out with the assistance of the others and Dr. Byron attempts to reach in for the backpack. In an act of poetic justice, Dr. Byron is bitten by the spider that bit Gordon and becomes paralyzed. Dr. Byron falls into the pit and is devoured as Sam escapes.

Just as the group think they are home free, the lone female anaconda notices their presence. Gail tricks it into biting their fuel container, and Bill tries to shoot it, realizing the gun is empty. Then, Cole shoots it with a flare, causing a chain reaction which kills all the anacondas and presumably destroying all the orchids.

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