Unteka

Unteka is the main antagonist of the 2007 American-Bulgarian horror film Mega Snake.

It is a species of serpent which once terrorized native tribes long before the coming of Europeans to the American continent. The creature grows constantly, feeding on ever increasing numbers of living beings to sustain its seemingly infinite potential for growth. Long ago, the tribes gathered together their bravest and most determined warriors to hunt down and destroy the Unteka as a whole, with only one hatchling surviving the purge; encased within a mystically sealed jar, its growth was halted and the threat it posed curtailed.

Appearance

Unteka is a gigantic blackish-green constrictor snake with a lighter underbelly and an expandable lower jaw. The creature itself is not dangerous in its earliest stages of life, but as it grows in size, it becomes increasingly resistant to all forms of damage, eventually becoming outright invincible save to internal damage.

Powers and Abilities

Unteka possesses the following powers and abilities:

Sharp teeth
Scaly, near impenetrable hide: as Unteka grows, it’s overall hardiness increases in conjunction with its size, eventually reaching a point where even high caliber gunfire can do little to harm it.
Constriction: when presented with recalcitrant or well-armored prey, the Unteka can wrap its body around the target to either squeeze the life out of it outright or break the defenses put between it and its prey.
Accelerated growth: as it consumes fresh, living prey, the Unteka increases in size. The larger the prey, the more quickly the creature grows.
Enhanced regeneration: Unteka can heal from almost any wound within a matter of hours, days, or even minutes depending upon the severity of the wound.

Fate

Les Daniels allowed himself to be swallowed whole by the Unteka in the manner of the old native braves who fought its long extinct brethren, believing that by following the adage “only a man without fear can kill the Unteka,” he might save his hometown. When Screaming Hawk, the man who possessed the snake originally, is about to be killed and consumed by it, the serpent begins to scream and writhe wildly before falling limp. Les emerges from within the snake by cutting through its tough hide, having destroyed its heart from the inside.

Trivia

Despite being set in state Tennessee, USA, the film was shot in Bulgaria