Lake Placid Anaconda

I was reading other publications’ reviews this morning and one of them cited Lake Placid vs. Anaconda as the “battle of two failed franchises.” I don’t feel this is necessarily true as Anaconda, Anaconda II and Lake Placid were all financially successful. It wasn’t until both of the creature features went the campy SyFy TV route with bad CGI did they really start to suffer in quality.