Best of the Worst Vol 1: Anaconda

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Anaconda, a movie often derided as a horrible, campy movies is, in its own way, a champion.

The 1997 horror film has dominated the “It’s So Bad it’s Good” Division for over a decade; an almost unparalleled cinematic reign. It’s fended off challenges from Gigli (which, while bad, was not quite as offensive as one was led to believe), Star Wars Episode III (the No.1 contender to Anaconda’s throne) and Lady in the Water (which is just plain fucking bad).

From beginning to end, Anaconda is unmitigated trash. It is a B movie that struggles so pitifully to escape its inevitable B classification that I wanted to put it out of its misery by shooting it in the head. It begins inauspiciously enough, as a National Geographic crew commandeer a boat, along the way picking up a shifty hunter, while in search of a seAmazonian tribe. What follows is a gruesome, iconic, raping of cinema; a relentless pummeling of common sense and sanity.