Hate Watching Anaconda: A Fangless Reboot

About this episode

The episode critiques the Anaconda remake for its failure to deliver on its horror premise.

Send us Fan Mail A reboot can survive a bad budget, cheap CGI, and even a silly premise. What it cannot survive is refusing to be the movie it advertises. We dig into the Anaconda remake and the strange choice to set up jump scares, a Brazil jungle prologue, and a “we’re living the movie we’re making” hook, then drain it all of horror, tension, and consequences the moment the story gets moving. We break down the biggest screenwriting and structure problems: the movie within a movie never bec...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• reboot
• screenwriting
• horror
• film analysis
• CGI
• jump scares

Keywords

• Anaconda
• remake
• horror
• CGI
• screenwriting
• film review

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Anaconda

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