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Alligators and Crocodiles in Movies   Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is the second movie in the Anaconda (1997) franchise but it's not a real sequel. There is only one brief mention of what happened to the documentary film crew in the first movie to let us know we're at a later date in the same universe. The action is moved to Borneo from South America, and nobody from the cast of the original movie returns. A bunch of young people rush off to Borneo to get rich by collecting some Blood Orchids, a miraculous "fountain of youth" flower that can prolong life. Their pharmaceutical company expects to make a drug from the flower that will be bigger than Viagra, making them billions and billions of dollars. But the flowers only bloom once every seven years, and the are only in bloom for one more week, so they're in a huge hurry. But the trip is complicated by many problems - they need to take a boat upriver, but it's the rainy season and the rivers are very dangerous, and worse, it's Anaconda breeding season, a time when the snakes get together in giant mating balls where the orchids grow, and these Anacondas are enormous because they keep growing until they die and the orchids have been prolonging their lives. They have grown much bigger than the snakes in the first Anaconda movie, and they're faster, stronger, and hungrier, too. And there's more to worry about than the giant monster snakes - there are leaches, poisonous spiders, big waterfalls, headhunters, and confrontations with other people on the expedition. When one of the passengers falls into the river, a gigantic crocodile swims over to eat her. The macho boat captain dives in and shoves a plastic crate into the croc's mouth, then rides it, punches it, stabs it, rolls with it, and finally stabs it to death underwater. We see its carcass floating as the boat cruises away (until a hungry Anaconda drags it underwater.) As far as I can tell, the crocodile is a prop or an animatronic effect instead of CGI. Whatever they did, the effect is realistic enough when you take into account that we barely see the animal amidst all the splashing and motion blur.