Not too long ago, I reviewed Anaconda 3: Offspring. It was a decent movie for TV, but not really worth buying. Anacondas 4: Trail of Blood was filmed back to back with its predecessor, so I figured it would at least be a decent movie to catch on TV. Unfortunately, I was so very wrong.

I hate to say that David Hasselhoff made a movie interesting, but honestly, Anacondas 4: Trail of Blood is just plain boring without having him to laugh at. There are several groups of people wandering around the forests of Europe in Anacondas 4. I had to watch the movie twice to figure out who was who, not because it was a confusing movie, but because it was so boring my attention kept drifting away.

One group is Amanda (Crystal Allen) and some new people. If you remember, she's the scientist from the previous movie who has made it her job to hunt down and kill all of the uber-snakes. Amanda and company run into a hiker in the woods who is looking for the second group of people, paleopathologists. Of course, the movie claims that paleopathology is "the study of human ancient remains," but if you go look it up, it's actually the study of ancient diseases. They should at least mention that little difference. It wouldn't have taken any extra time to get it exactly right.

Anyway, Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies) is back in this one as well (the third group). He's hired a new guy to continue Amanda's work. This new guy has perfected the formula. It can now allow the snake to regenerate bones and tissue as long as it is injected quickly. Unfortunately for this new guy, he gets eaten by the big snake. Murdoch hires a mercenary (the fourth group) to go find this guy (Murdoch doesn't know he was eaten), retrieve the new serum, and kill Amanda as an added bonus if he can. The reason I'm telling you who's in what group is so when you fall asleep, you won't have to re-watch anything to catch up.

As you can imagine, the giant snake is going to eat people leaving a "Trail of Blood." Honestly, there really wasn't much blood in the movie. One of the most violent (and hilarious!) scenes is when a moron accidently blows himself up. It was the one thing that really made me wake up in the entire movie.

There aren't any special features on the DVD to make it something that you really need to buy. If you happen to catch it on TV, it'll cure your insomnia.