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Two tree-size Amazonian river snakes try to eat their way through a fairly respectable list of stars in Anaconda. Of course, they're part of a long slimy line of filmdom's underwater carnivores, monsters with meal plans who are always the real stars of any decent splasher-thrasher flick. And as this chart shows, despite one hungry serpent's wolfing, then spewing, Jon Voight, anacondas aren't even the most ticked off of aqua predators.
-- Jake Tapper with additional reporting by Erin Richter
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STAR, MOVIE, BODY OF WATER
Bruce, the great white shark in JAWS (1975), stakes out surf by Martha's Vineyard stand-in Amity Island.
BODY OF CREATURE
Richard Dreyfuss: ''That's a 20-footer.'' Robert Shaw: ''Twenty-five -- three tons of him.''
WHAT IT EATS
Skinny-dipping teenybopper, the obligatory dog, boy with hysterical mother, boater, Robert Shaw
WHAT'S EATING IT
Primal instinct. ''What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine -- an eating machine,'' says Dreyfuss.
[STAR, MOVIE, BODY OF WATER]
Deeper in the Pacific than you thought possible lurks the giant squid in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954).
[BODY OF CREATURE]
Maybe 40 feet high, eight tons, with 40-foot-long tentacles covered in suction cups
[WHAT IT EATS]
Whales, bit players. Tries but fails to chow on James Mason.
[WHAT'S EATING IT]
Doesn't seem too psyched about all the humans suddenly moving into the neighborhood.
[STAR, MOVIE, BODY OF WATER]
Ramon the alligator in ALLIGATOR (1980) calls the Chicago sewer system home until...
[BODY OF CREATURE]
...he grows from flushable size to Cadillac class to something bigger than the usual stretch limo.
[WHAT IT EATS]
Growth-hormone-addled lab pups as hors d'oeuvres, followed by a steady diet of cops
[WHAT'S EATING IT]
Those hormones from the evil pharmaceutical lab just make him insatiable.
[STAR, MOVIE, BODY OF WATER]
Invading a riverside summer resort come many, many piranhas in the remake of PIRANHA (1995).
[BODY OF CREATURE]
Individually only a foot long, they display considerable strength in numbers.
[WHAT IT EATS]
Skinny-dippers, the obligatory dog, an African-American family man, water-sports enthusiasts, a grown-up Punky Brewster
[WHAT'S EATING IT]
Government breeding program's radioactive treatments designed to make them weapons of war.
[STAR, MOVIE, BODY OF WATER]
The anacondas in ANACONDA (1997) have the run of Brazil's Rio Negro.
[BODY OF CREATURE]
The warrior snake is 25 feet long; his queen uncoils at 40 feet.
[WHAT IT EATS]
The prim Brit who's in need of comeuppance, the obligatory frisky couple, a tasty bad guy, a nasty-tasting bad guy
[WHAT'S EATING IT]
Primal instinct. ''Anacondas are a perfec' keelin' machine,'' says sinister snake Jon Voight.
