In 1993,

In 1993, Stephen Spielberg's Jurassic Park became one of the biggest grossing movies ever made

and ushered in a new era of monster movies, ones with relatively big budgets, huge ensemble casts, with an emphasis on

CGI and visual effects.

In 1997, director Louis Iosa made a killer snake movie called Anaconda, which boasted a cast that

included Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson and John Voight.

Being a student of Roger Corman, director Yosa kept the film short and action-packed. It was a huge hit, grossing over

$130 million at the box office and spawning a series of sequels. A year later, in 1998,

Stephen Summers, who would go on to have a huge career with The Mummy, released his own creature feature set on a cruise ship called

Deep Rising. Unlike Anaconda, Deep Rising was a massive flop, but over time has become appreciated alongside Anaconda as one of the great

creature feature B movies of the 1990s.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror, and we discuss two more

90s creature features, Anaconda and Deep Rising.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munser and as ever I am your host.

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the

horror genre, one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season

exploring the evolution of nature biting back in horror, and this is part 23. In this week's

episode, as that intro suggested, we are going to be covering two more 90s creature features.

So much fun, these films. Anaconda from 1997 and Deep Rising from 1998. Give them both a go.

If you haven't seen them before, give yourself a little treat because we will be talking about these movies in spoilerific detail.

So, joining me to discuss these two bangers.

I've got two returning guests.

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