Lake Placid vs. Anaconda is a 2015 American comedy horror television film directed by A.B. Stone, written by Berkeley Anderson and starring Corin Nemec, Yancy Butler and Robert Englund. The film premiered on Syfy on April 25, 2015. It is a crossover between the Anaconda film series and the Lake Placid film series, serving as a sequel to Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012), and Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009) and the fifth installment in both their respective series.
It was later followed by Lake Placid: Legacy (2018), and Anaconda (2024).
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Plot
Jim Bickerman, due to his injuries, is left with an eye patch, hook and wooden leg. Working in Black Lake, Maine, with another mercenary named Beach, they capture a female giant crocodile. They take it back to their truck, where two scientists crossbreed its blood with a female giant anaconda to perfect a Blood Orchid serum. However, the crocodile escapes, killing a scientist, and freeing a female and two male anacondas before causing the truck to explode. The explosion destroys part of the electric fence keeping the crocodiles in Black Lake. Beach, Bickerman, and the one remaining scientist survive. A small group of crocodiles also escape.
