Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Michael Shanks | ... | Les Daniels | |
Siri Baruc | ... | Erin | |
Michal Yannai | ... | Fay (as Michal Yanai) | |
Ben Cardinal | ... | Screaming Hawk | |
John T. Woods | ... | Duff Daniels | |
Todd Jensen | ... | Big Bo | |
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Nick Harvey | ... | Cooley |
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Harry Anichkin | ... | Patterson |
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Laura Giosh | ... | Dixie (as Laura Giosh Markov) |
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Mark Johnson | ... | Hewlett Daniels |
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Itai Diakov | ... | Young Les |
Ioan Karamfilov | ... | Young Duff | |
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Michael McCoy | ... | Artimus |
Matthew Atherton | ... | Feedback | |
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Stanimir Stamatov | ... | Cop #1 |
In 1986, in Tennessee, the father of the boys Lester and Duff Daniels is murdered by a snake in a weird ceremony. Twenty years later, Duff collects snakes while Les fears them. One day, Duff visits the Kitawa Indian Screaming Hawk to buy snakes and sees a small snake in a jar. He decides to buy the snake, but Screaming Hawk tells that the species is not for sale. He explains that it is the dangerous Unteka that has three rules to raise it: (1) never let the snake out of the jar; (2) never let it eat living animals; and (3) never fear the heart of the snake. Duff steals the Unteka and brings the snake home. However, he accidentally drops the jar and the snake eats his cat. The snake gets bigger and bigger eating animals and the locals. Now Les, his former girlfriend Erin and Screaming Hawk have to stop the Unteka to save the local population. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I am at a loss to understand why The Sci-Fi Channel keeps running these cheap giant snake movies. Oh, what ANACONDA hath wrought! MEGASNAKE has a large reptile roaming the Tennessee countryside (actually Bulgaria), picking off one unfortunate resident after another. Bullets bounce off it, of course. There was just enough gore to keep me reasonably happy, but the snake is badly composited and the generic cast doesn't help one bit. The filmmakers even steal a plot element from JAWS, involving an upcoming county carnival that wiser heads feel needs to be called off but of course the mayor wop't hear of it. Otherwise, the snake would have little to do outside of picking off an occasional individual. Pass on this one.