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The VICE Guide to Being a Reptile Smuggler

Watch Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis’s new short film about an exotic animal trader’s HQ getting raided, exclusively at VICE.

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Inspired by HBO’s series Monsters of God, Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis made a short film about the OG hype beasts: reptile smugglers. Lizard Hunter depicts a law enforcement raid on an illegal exotic animal operation, and features a ton of highly aesthetic biological pirate material.

You can watch Lizard Hunter exclusively in the VICE.com player below, read what it taught us about how to make it big in the endangered species trade, and see all of Nadia’s amazing photographs to boot. Don’t say we never do anything for you.

Film by Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie DenisScript by Ben Aaron Cohen

Starring Jimmy O YangProduced by BADFOOT

Be morbidly obese with a slogan T. Dress like Fu Manchu if he collected Prada. Have a crazy beard. Wear head-to-toe orange-dyed gator skin. Bedeck yourself in comic levels of jewelry. The characters of the........

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