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12 Killer Animal Movies That Used Real Animals — With Varying Levels of Success

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Tim Molloy

Anaconda (1997)

Anaconda, courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing.

Things got a lot safer — and considerably less wild — when Hollywood made concessions to safety and PETA and started relying on computer-animated animals instead of real-life ones… mostly.

Anaconda features plenty of CGI, but also plenty of real snakes, including in a scene in which Jennifer Lopez’s character comes across a nest of anacondas played by… actual anacondas. (California Herps, our favorite online herpetology guide, has details.

It also stars Jon Voight, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson and Kari Wuhrer.

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