File this one under “Only in Florida”. Seems the Everglades are overrun with unwanted visitors. Not tourists, but invasive Burmese pythons which are decimating the local critters. The state’s solution is an annual contest open to all: $10 000 to whomever bags the most snakes. Cue midnight mayhem as local misfits and out-of-towners converge on the glades, armed, dangerous, and ready to party.
Produced by Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven; Ren Faire), this slippery, larger-than-life doc is almost certainly a lot more fun than actually being there, waiting for a snake to slither across the road.
Has a neon, hallucinatory quality with a synthesizer score (composed by Nick León) that feels ripped straight from an ’80s movie. Sometimes, reality beats anything you could imagine.
Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
A wild and generally empathetic journey into the swamp of the American soul.
Daniel Fienberg, Hollywood Reporter
The Python Hunt just might be the next Tiger King.
Christian Zelko, Indiewire
Xander Robin
Jimbo McCartney, Shannon McCartney, Toby Benoit, Anne Stratton Hilts, Richard Perenyi, Madison Oliveira
USA
2025
English
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Credits
Executive Producer
Dani Bernfeld, Gillian Brown
Producer
Lance Oppenheim, Lauren Cioffi, Melissa Oppenheim, Xander Robin
Cinematography
David Bolen, Matt Clegg
Editor
Max Allman
Original Music
Nick León
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