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Boas, Pythons, and Anacondas in Movies

This is an alphabetical list of movies with a boa, a python, or an anaconda in them, taken from the main Snakes in Movies List.

In the real world, Boas are found in the Americas, Pythons are found in Asia and Australia, and Anacondas are found in South America, but in movies they can occur just about anywhere. Since Boas and Pythons are relatively docile, slow-moving, and easy to obtain non-venomous snakes,
they are commonly used in movies, often to represent venomous snakes. Since some species can grow to a very large size,
they are often used to portray giant deadly snakes.

You can see more pictures and read a description of the snake scenes by following the title link.

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Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film.

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

A doctor watches a "dirty" movie in his home that shows a scantily-clad woman dancing with a Boa Constrictor.

Alexander (2004)

Alexander's hot mother Olympias (Anjelina Jolie) keeps a collection of snakes in a basket including a Ball Python.

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)

A man running away from other men, stops to hide behind a tree, when a python crawls down onto him, causing him to scream and give away his location.

Altered States (1980)

A Harvard scientist eats some Mexican magic mushrooms and hallucinates that a python is choking him.

American Made (2017)

A drug-smuggling airplane pilot flies with his pet Boa Constrictor.

Anaconda (1997) (The first movie in the franchise.)

A documentary film crew boats up a river full of gigantic human-eating Anacondas.

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) (The second movie in the franchise.)

Somehow giant Anacondas made it all the way to Borneo, where they got even bigger and angrier than they were in South America.

Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008) (The third movie in the franchise.)

Two gigantic Anacondas kept in a laboratory and used to make a life-prolonging serum escape, leaving a trail of bloody corpses.

Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009) (The fourth movie in the franchise.)

A gigantic lab-created monster Anaconda is cut in half and becomes two monster snakes.

As You Like It (1936)

Orlando encounters his estranged brother sleeping in the forest with a large python on his neck preparing to kill him.

Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982) [Ator l'invincible]

Ator is abducted by a beautiful witch who likes to play with snakes in bed, including a boa constrictor she kisses on the mouth.

The Beach Bum (2019)

Moondog is a rebellious stoner poet who plays a hand drum with a pet albino python on it on his fishing boat full of naked women.

Blade Runner (1982)

A female replicant dances on stage in a strip club with a replicant python.

The Blade Master [aka Cave Dwellers; Ator: The Invincible] (1984)

Nubile maidens are thrown into a snake pit full of pythons and boas as human sacrifices to be devoured by a giant monster snake.

Blood Feast (1963)

A caterer kills women to use them in a feast for the evil Egyptian love goddess and for some reason there's a boa constrictor involved.

The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)

Fu Manchu makes an army of beautiful female assassins by forcing them to be bitten by venomous snakes. The snake bite gives them the power to kill a man with a kiss. An explorer also spots a Boa Constrictor on a tree so he shoots it.

Bloody Wednesday (1987)

A psycho-killer is terrified to find that a snake has crawled into his bed. He is scared again when a suitcase he thought was full of diamonds is full of snakes.

Boa vs. Python (2004)

A woman taking a shower on her rich boyfriends jet finds a Boa Constrictor crawling on the bathroom floor so she thinks it was attacking her, mistaking it for an Anaconda.

Bowanga Bowanga - White Sirens of Africa (Wild Women) (1951)

Kids are terrified when a large python drops through the roof of their hut.

Brewster McCloud (1970)

Sally Kellerman holds a boa constrictor in a circus.

Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

A man intentionally knocks another man down next to a supposedly deadly boa constrictor that bites him and kills him.

Bruka Queen of Evil (1973)

An evil old snake woman and her young Medusa-haired ancestor use snakes to kill people, mostly pythons.

Bus Party to Hell (2017) [Party Bus to Hell]

A psychotic cult of devil worshiping cannibals put a large python into a woman's mouth. After it crawls to her stomach, they cut it out of her with a knife. More snakes appear on the party bus and kill a few more of the passengers.

Calamity of Snakes (1982)

A sleazy land developer kills thousands of snakes, then thousands more snakes form an army to get revenge by killing his workers and his tenants. A giant flying fighting python is the leader of the snake army.

Central Intelligence (2016)

Jared the airport security guard keeps his pet boa constrictor named Snake Gyllenhall in his cooler with his lunch.

Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

Gangor is a Snake Charmer at the circus with a large python.

Circus of Horrors (1960)

A circus performer who threatens to expose the criminal past of her boss, finds a deadly snake on the floor of her trailer, put there to kill her. The snake is actually a fairly harmless Burmese Python.

The Clash of the Titans (1981)

At Medusa's temple in the underworld Perseus encounters a python on his sword and takes a long time to finally pull it out from under the harmless animal.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Alex has a pet Boa Constrictor he keeps in a drawer.

Club Paradise (1986)

A tourist in the forest on a Carribean island is attacked by a Burmese Python.

Cobra Verde (1987)

An African King's witch doctor lays a sacred python in the path of an advancing army to make it retreat.

Cold Creek Manor (2003)

A snake gets in the pool and then somebody fills a house with snakes, incuding a boa constrictor, to terrorize a family.

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Conan fights a giant boa constrictor with a sword. An evil warlord leads a snake cult and can change himself into a giant boa constrictor.

The Craft (1996)

Snakes appear throughout this movie about four high school witches, including a lot of pythons.

Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)

An evil psychiatric doctor kills a woman with a Boa Constrictor and fills a cell with boas and pythons to force another woman to do what he wants.

Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

As part of his tactics to terrorize a group of gangsters who are hunting Dundee and his girlfriend, Dundee sneaks into their camp at night and throws a bag holding a large harmless black-headed python at the sentry, who was sleeping.

The Day The Earth Froze (Sampo) 1959

A wicked witch has a field overrun with snakes. She coerces two men to fight off the snakes and plow the field. One man fights a large python.

Death Curse of Tartu (1966)

If anyone disturbs his sacred burial grounds in the Florida Everglades, a dead Indian medicine man revives and turns into wild animals to kill them, including a large Anaconda.

Devil Woman (1970)

A snake woman commands lots of pythons to kill the people who murdered her parents.

Devils of Darkness (1965)

A woman dances with a Boa Bonstrictor at a party for a vampire cult.

A doctor in a lab extracts venom from a non-venomous python to use in his studies.

The Devil's Nightmare (1971)

The Devil's succubus uses a Burmese Python to kill a sleeping woman.

The Devil's Rain (1975)

A man wears a magic amulet around his neck to protect him from a Satanic priest, but the priest uses magic to make him believe that the amulet is a deadly snake, though it's really a harmless boa constrictor. The man freaks out and throws the snake to the ground, where we see that it is really the amulet, and the man is no longer protected.

Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)

A bad guy thinks he's clever locking secret agent Dick Barton in a room full of venomous snakes in glass cages, then shooting the glass from outside the room to let the snakes escape to kill the men. But he doesn't feel so clever after the men escape and toss him into the room with the snakes. (The snakes used are all Boas.)

Dragnet (1987)

A woman is abducted, dressed in a bridal gown, then thrown into a pool of water to be a human sacrifice for an Anaconda that was stolen from a zoo. A zookeeper introduces a Boa Constrictor that is really a Python.

Drive, He Said (1971)

A campus radical runs naked into a college science lab and releases mice, snakes, lizards, and other animals, including pythons.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

A bunch of Boa Constrictors with mechanical noisemakers on them are put in a room with a man to kill him.

Eaten Alive! (1980)

Cobra venom is used to kill people, a mongoose fights a cobra, a snake fights a bird, cannibals eat a bunch of live snakes, and more.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)

A Burmese Python (in the Amazon jungle) drops from a tree, wraps itself around Emanuelle's neck and tries to kill her, but somebody shoots it before it can swallow her.

Eva Nera (Black Cobra) (1976)

Eva dances with a python on stage.

Excalibur (1981)

Snakes are draped around sets like dirty laundry to represent a hidden world, including pythons and boa constrictors.

Exodus: Gods & Kings (2014)

The Pharaoh Ramses has a pit full of pet snakes, including some albino pythons.

Fer de Lance (1974)

A sailor on shore leave returns to his submarine with deadly boa constrictors.

Firewalker (1986)

A Native American dances, chants and holds a python over a fire to cast a spell on Chuck Norris. (Nice try bad guy, didn't you know that Chuck Norris was once bitten by a poisonous snake and after three days of excrutiating pain, the snake died?)

Foul Play (1978)

A man has a pet Boa Constrictor that likes cigarettes.

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Salma Hayek dances on stage with an albino python.

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)

An entertainer in a vampire strip club dances with a python.

Golden Needles (1974)

We see a man in a Hong Kong snake market carrying a large python.

Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

Car thieves steal a Hummer with a "Snake" license plate and find out there's a boa constrictor in it.

The Good Time Girls (1960) (Les Bonnes Femmes)

Les bonnes femmes go to a zoo to scream at the monkeys an look at some big pythons.

Gunga Din (1939)

Indian cultists torture a British soldier by threatening to throw him into a snake pit that includes a boa constrictor.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Harry meets a Burmese Python at the zoo and learns that he can talk to snakes.

The Headless Ghost (1959)

College students in a haunted castle looking for a pouch they need for a magic spell find it inside a large chest guarded by a snake, so they kill the snake.

The Holy Mountain (1973)

A woman knits a colorful sweater for her pet boa constrictor.

The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

Snakes are used by a voodoo priest to scare his victims, including a large Boa Constrictor.

The Hungry Snake Woman (1986)

To get rich, a man becomes a slave of the evil Snake Queen and her enemy the Hungry Snake Woman. He spends a lot of time in bed with a python...

I Dreamed of Africa(2000)

A boy has many encounters with snakes after moving to Africa, including a large python.

Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Indiana Jones is terrified of his pilot's pet python named Reggie.

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984)

A python drops onto a woman's neck and another python is cooked for dinner.

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

A giant Anaconda drops down and bites the head of a video game character and drags him up into the trees to die.

Jungle Book (1942)

Mowgli the jungle boy swims with a giant talking python (shown in one scene as a boa constrictor.)

The Jungle Book (1967)

Sterling Holloway is the voice of "Kaa" the Snake (a python) in the animated musical version of Kipling's classic tales.

The Jungle Book (2016)

In this version, Kaa is a female python who hypnotizes Mowgli and nearly eats him.

Jungle Run (2021)

A woman is swallowed alive by a giant Anaconda. She uses a machete to cut herself out of the snake from the inside.

Jurassic Park (1993)

A Boa Constrictor makes a jungle cameo, and it's not even remotely the most frightening thing in the scene.

Keanu (2016)

A gangster has a large pet python that unintentionally terrifies people.

The Killer Snakes (She sha shou) (1975)

A bullied man learns he can use his pet pythons and other snakes to get revenge.

King Serpent Island (She wang dao) (2021)

The largest snake ever found on earth, the Titan Python, thought to be extinct, is still alive on a Chinese Island.

King Solomon's Mines (1950)

Jungle adventurers on safari in Africa encounter pythons and cobras and mambas.

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

An alcoholic's delirium includes a Boa Constrictor in the bedroom.

Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015) (Fifth movie in the Anaconda franchise)

Giant crocodiles vs. giant anacondas vs. college girls in tiny bikinis.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Uncle Monty is an eccentric herpetologist with snakes all over his house including this albino python.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Pythons lounge around the ruins of a 5-star hotel.

Life of Pi (2012)

Don't blink or you'll miss this shot of a Burmese Python in Pi's zoo in Pondicherry.

Lisztomania (1975)

Franz Liszt plays a flame-throwing piano to exorcise a demon from Richard Wagner. It comes out in the form of a python.

Live and Let Die (1973)

A criminal gang uses Voodoo cult assassins to kill people with snakes, including boas and pythons.

The Look of Love (2013)

Nude women perform with pythons around their necks in a London nightclub.

The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

The story of Adam and Eve and a Burmese Python in a fruit tree.

Lost City of Z (2017)

A British surveyer in the Bolivian Jungle watches a snake crawl next to his feet. He says that it's a rather deadly looking snake, but it's actually a harmless Boa Constrictor.

The Lost World (1925)

Members of an expedition in the Amazon jungle canoe past a boa constrictor wrapped around a tree branch above them.

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Mad Max grabs a venomous python that's guarding a gyro helicopter but the snake's owner makes him put it down. Later, the snake's owner flies above Max and throws the snake out of his helicopter to kill some men who are trying to kill Max.

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

Diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu makes a mind-control serum of sacred herbs and reptiles, including a Burmese Python. His underground passages are crawling with snakes.

Mean Girls (2004)

A high school girl grew up in Africa where her father was a research zoologist who carried a python around his neck.

Medusa (2020)

A trailer park drug-addict prostitute is bitten by a Ball Python that turns her into the snake woman Medusa.

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011)

An animal rights activist and snake lover releases Pythons into the Everglades that grow so large they eat the native alligators. So, I guess this is a documentary?

Midnight's Children (2014)

A man on a parade float holds a boa constrictor and sits in a room full of cobras.

Mogambo (1953)

A woman at a safari camp in Africa sees a large snake on the floor and screams in terror, but it's only the resident house python, Old Joe, who is called a "migratory mousetrap."

The Monster Squad (1987) (IMDB)

A squad of young monster movie fans try to stop a group of real movie monsters led by Count Dracula, including Frankenstein's monster, the wolfman, and the creature from the Black Lagoon, from taking over their town. We see a cameo of a python on a tree branch in some woods where the monsters are meeting.

Moonraker (1979)

James Bond is thrown into a pool to fight off a giant python while beautiful women stand around watching.

Monster Python (2018)

A film crew using fake snake puppets to make a movie about a monster snake is unexpectedly attacked by a real giant python.

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

A jealous murderer on the run ducks inside a python cage to hide, but can't survive the welcome hugs from the big snake.

Mutant Python (2021)

A secluded mountain village in China is terrorized by a giant python, so they plan to sacrifice a girl to appease it.

The Naked Prey (1965)

A South African jungle adventure movie with snakes for dinner, snakes for torture, and snakes just for shock value.

Never Say Never Again (1983)

A female spy throws her pet Boa Constrictor into a man's car causing him to lose control and crash into a wall.

Next of Kin (1989)

Snakeman is a Kentucky Hillbilly who drives a bus full of snakes to Chicago to use them in a battle between hillbillies and mobsters.

Night at the Museum (2006)

Everything comes alive at night in the museum, including the albino pythons.

Nomadland (2020)

A woman who lives in a van tries on an albino python at a reptile zoo.

One Million Years B.C. (1966)

A python is used to illustrate the example of a creature that must "kill to live."

Outback (2019)

American tourists lost in the Australian outback encounter deadly snakes that are portrayed by harmless Black-headed Pythons.

Papillon (1973) (IMDB)

When Steve McQueen is trying to catch butterflies, he sees a large python stretched out on a fallen tree. Nice snake, but wrong continent.
Later we see some Boa Constrictor skins hanging from vines near a shack in the jungle.

Paul Temple Returns (Bombay Waterfront) (1952) IMDB

This British mystery is the last in a series of four films about the amateur detective Paul Temple. Here he searches for a serial killer who is terrorizing London using the name "The Marquis."

A snake (a large python) is left in a room to guard it from intruders. It's really just a plot device to enable the hero to shoot at the floor. He misses the snake, but breaks the floor tile the snake was crawling on, exposing a secret hiding place that the snake is protecting.

Using a snake as a guard is a nice exotic addition to a movie but in reality it's a bad idea because snakes will try to hide at any opportunity, unlike a guard dog.

(Thanks to the person who sent me the picture and told me about the movie.)

The People That Time Forgot (1977)

An evil villain's cave is decorated with the skulls of his victims and one large python.

Piranhaconda (2012)

Giant snakes that are hybrids of piranhas and anacondas protect their nest of eggs, killing anybody who gets in their way.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

A voodoo priestess has a pet albino python in her tree shack in a swamp.

Prehistoric Women (1950)

A caveman discovers how to make fire then immediately uses it to fight a python that's minding its own business on a branch above him.

Prehistoric Women (1950)

A caveman discovers how to make fire then immediately uses it to fight a python that's minding its own business on a tree branch above him.

The Primitive Man (Brute Force) (1914)

A very large prehistoric python crawls around several cave people who wisely run away from it.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

An evil assasin keeps a collection of snakes that he can control to use them as weapons, including a boa and a python.

Python (2000)

A man finds a woman's escaped pet python.

Python Island (2022)

Villagers go to a forbidden island where they are attacked by the giant pythons that guard the island's magic plants.

Rampage (1963)

An animal trapper in Malaysia shoots a venomous python too high up in a tree to be of any danger.

The Resurrection of Jake The Snake (2015)

A broken down wrestler, who used snakes in the ring, fights addiction and physical decripitude.

River's End (2005)

A high school science teacher pulls out a Boa Constrictor to use in a classroom lecture.

Road Trip (2000)

A college student tries to feed a mouse to a Burmese Python, but the snake refuses to eat. He forgets that he's still holding the mouse and leans over the snake which swallows the mouse and his hand, causing him to freak out and swing the snake around the room, eventually dislodging the snake and throwing it teeth first into the throat of another student.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

The Sheriff of Nottingham employs a witch whose basement full of witchcraft supplies includes a Python.

Run for the Sun (1956)

A man an woman walking through the Mexican jungle to escape Nazi war criminals encounter a Boa Constrictor on a branch overhead.

The Sadist (1963)

A leering psycho killer falls into an abandoned well full of rattlesnakes, pythons, and other snakes, and we cheer for the snakes.

Santa Sangre (1989)

A man pulls a large Burmese Python out of his pants. Nothing symbolic about that...

Serpent Island (1954)

A big killer python guards some ancient treasure on an island protected by a voodoo cult.

The Serpent Warriors (1985)

A large python crawls around a cave in the Mexican desert that is used by a snake cult. The cult also uses a giant "warrior" python to lead an army of snakes into an apartment building to attack its occupants.

She Demons (1958)

A woman walks under a tree with a python in it so the hero can save her.

Sheena (1984)

Baby Sheena sleeps with a large python.

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)

Sherlock Holmes finds a hidden compartment with a priceless necklace guarded by a snake.nm

The Show (1927)

Zalina, the wild woman at a sideshow, pulls a huge Burmese Python out of a box.

Silent Predators (1999)

Mutant rattlesnakes invade a town because greedy land developers woke them up during construction. The made-in-Australia movie substitutes Australian pythons for rattlesnakes....

Silent Venom aka "Sea Snakes" (2009)

A bunch of extra-deadly mutated snakes are brought onto a submarine, including boas and pythons.

Sirens (1993)

A large Australian python keeps showing up in the movie. I don't know why.

Slave of the Cannibal God (The Mountain of the Cannibal God) (1978)

A group traveling in a jungle in Borneo encounter lots of snakes, including snakes that try to eat them, and snakes that are eaten by cannibals.

Snake Club - Revenge of the Snake Woman (2013)

A snake woman attacks men at the Garden of Eden gentlemen's club where, apparently, the ball pythons are deadly killers.

Snake Eyes (2021)

Three giant ancient anacondas in a large underground chamber are used to test if a Ninja candidate is pure of heart. If he isn't, they eat him. If he is, they crawl away.

The Snake Girl (1974)

An evil woman throws her adopted sister into a snake pit to die but she mates with a python and Snake Girl is born.

The Snake God (1970)

The Snake God, in the form of a boa constrictor, lusts after a beautiful Italian woman.

Snake Island (2002)

A group of tourists in Africa are stranded on Snake Island, which, Spoiler Alert!, is full of snakes, including pythons.

Snake People (1971) (Isle of the Snake People)

A snake priestess dances with a boa constrictor and turns people into zombies.

Snakeman (The Snake King) (2005)

A man bitten by a (supposedly) venomous Anaconda in the Amazon jungle, blows its head off with his automatic rifle.

Snaker (aka The Snake King's Child, aka Ghost Wife 2) (2001)

A woman who was forced to mate with a python, prefers snakes to her drunken husband.

Snakes on a Train (2006)

A bunch of deadly snakes get loose on a train, inclduding pythons.

Soldier (1998)

A supersoldier is left for dead on a planet used as a garbage dump that's also filled with dangerous snakes, including pythons.

The Speckled Band (1931)

Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery involving a venomous snake used to kill a woman. A python is used to act as the venomous snake.

The Spiders: Chapter 1 (1919)

An adventurer saves an island princess from a big Burmese python.

The Squeaker (Der Zinker) (1963)

We see several pythons (and maybe boas) standing in for venomous snakes.

Sssssss (1973)

A mad scientist adores his pet boa, kills his enemies with snakes, and turns a man into a King Cobra.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Pythons roam Yoda's planet and there's a California Kingsnake in his kitchen.

Stripped to Kill (1987)

An exotic dancer uses a snake in her act at a strip club.

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

A boy hiking through a swamp on a tropical island somewhere near New Guinea is attacked by a large snake that suddenly wraps itself around his body. He fights it off until his brother intervenes with a machete.

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

A giant constrictor wraps its body around an unconscious princess until the hero saves her.

Tales of Terror (1962)

A drunk hallucinates a rattlesnake in his bed and a boa constrictor on his furniture.

Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

Hunters in an African jungle pass a python that strikes out at them.

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)

Cheetah steals a snake charmer's flute and uses it on his cobra, then accidentally charms up a big scary python.

Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

Jane is attacked by a giant python but Tarzan saves her.

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

A woman and her Boa Constrictor perform a snake dance in a brothel for decadent rich men.

Tommy (1975)

Boa Constrictors and Ball Pythons crawl around Tommy's skeleton in the bizarre Acid Queen song scene with Tina Turner.

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel) (1967)

A woman suffering from amnesia opens a container with a juvenile Burmese python in it. At first she thinks it's a lovely present, but she suddenly gets her memory back and realizes she's afraid of snakes, so she throws it as far away from her as she can.

Tracks (2013)

A young woman and her camels walk 1,700 miles through an Australian desert teeming with amazing reptiles but we only get to see one lousy python in a dream sequence.

Trapeze (1956)

A circus performer carries around a box holding pythons and a boa constrictor that he uses in his act and tries to sell them to other performers.

Triangle of Sadness (2022) (IMDB)

Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, this movie satires the relationships between the rich and the working class and between power and beauty. After a small group of survivors from a cruise for the ultra-wealthy is shipwrecked on a beach, they huddle together in a raft at night. Strange loud noises from the dark jungle scare them and us as well. The camera shows us two Boa Constrictors crawling in some vines towards the raft, just to scare us even more, but that fright is never paid off. Unfortunately for this list, an army of snakes did not descend on the raft, nobody is bitten or strangled by snakes and nobody heroically fights them off. The snakes are simply never shown again. I know I'm always begging for a more realistic treatment of snakes in movies, and that's what this is, but I was still disappointed, having learned to expect misinformation and over-dramatization.

Turkey Shoot (Escape 2000) (1982)

A prisoner in a re-education camp is set free to be hunted to the death by a hunter. When she ducks into a hole to hide from her hunter, she finds a corpse with an Australian python crawling out of the skull.

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

An exotic nightclub entertainer dances with a boa constrictor. The same snake is used to kill a man.

Tyranno's Claw (Tirannoui baltob) (1994)

A caveman finds a nest full of eggs in a tree. When he starts eating them a snake climbs down and kills him.

Ular (Python's Pit) 2013

People win a contest to take a dream vacation to an island resort, only to find that it's infested with giant man-eating pythons.

Uncommon Valor (1983)

A Viet Nam war veteran crawling through a drainage pipe in Laos s bitten on the hand by a python, so he cuts its head off with a knife.

Virgin Sacrifice (Fury of the Jungle) (1959)

Boa Constrictors are shown realistically as a normal part of the Central American jungle, but they're also used absurdly as weapons thrown into a snake pit to kill someone.

Viva Maria! (1965)

Brigitte Bardot is a terrorist running from the law in Central America when she sees a boa constrictor on a tree that scares her.

Walkabout (1971)

A boy and a teenage girl lost in the Australian desert encounter lots of wildlife including pythons.

Walker (1987)

An American mercenary in a Nicaraguan jungle finds a Boa Constrictor crossing his path.

War on Everyone (2016)

A topless dancer backstage at a strip club holds an albino python around her shoulders. Some snakes have all the luck.

Wayne's World (1992)

A rock singer wears a Burmese Python around her shoulders in a music video.

We Bought a Zoo (2011)

Scarlet Johannsen shows off her snake-handling skills after some newly-arrived zoo snakes escape their shipping box then just sit around all night waiting to be captured the next morning.

Welcome to the Jungle (2013)

A woman on a team-building retreat on a tropical island is bitten on the leg by a Ball Python which leads to some unusual attempts to help her before they realize it's not a venomous snake.

Where the River Runs Black (1986)

A priest in the Amazon jungle breaks his vows then is drowned by a large snake in a river.

White Huntress (1954)

Pythons are on the attack in several scenes in this jungle adventure movie.

The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

Giant pythons hanging out on branches scare the men of Wongo and Guna.

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

A woman tells the devil of her fear of snakes and later he fills her bed with snakes to torment her. Among the snakes we see on the bed are boa constrictors and ball pythons.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

We see a brief shot of one of a large group of sleazy criminal stock traders with a ball python wrapped around his neck. It should have been a noose - around all of their necks.

The Woman Eater (Womaneater) (1958)

An Amazon witchdoctor dances with a boa constrictor and a python in a ceremony to sacrifice a woman to a woman-eating tree.

Women in Fury (1984)

Fugitives from a woman's prison in Brazil run into a couple of deadly snakes in the jungle, including a boa constrictor swimming in a creek.

Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)

A boa constrictor terrifies a woman in this terrifyingly bad movie.

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