Review - Piranha
Alexandre Aja is a guy that loves his horror gritty. Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes remake and now...Piranha??
Departing from his usual dirty, grimy locations that have a layer of ick on them, it seems that these two decided you know what it's time to make a fun horror film...and what fun it is!
The plot breakdown is courtesy of IMDB.com -
Lake Victoria's annual Spring party by 50,000 young revelers is about to turn into a feeding frenzy with prehistoric hunger-pains. With knee-trembler's above the waves and tremors below, released from their dormant sleep, thousands upon thousands of flesh-eating nippers are released into the lake with whetted appetites and razor-sharp teeth. With a motley crew of strangers thrown together to defend these shores, it is now up to them to prevent the largest eat-out in human, and piranha, history.
If you think that the premise is ridiculous...well it is. It's camp, gore and boobs - lots of boobs - all rolled up into an amazing horror/comedy burrito, that tastes as good as that sounds.
Starting off a lot like Jaws, we have the discovery of the fish, the fish expert, the crazy fish expert (Christopher Lloyd going back to the future as a crazy professor) and plenty of the fish bait (mostly pornstars...er...so I am told) along for the ride.
The CGI fish are hokey and not convincing but that is part of the charm. The films Pièce de résistance comes when a Spring Break gathering ends up getting bloody and then some, such wonderfully funny carnage you are likely to see this side of Peter Jackson's Brain Dead.
Leave your brain at the door or switch it to 15 year old boy mode and you'll have a great time with a film that doesn't take its self seriously.
Departing from his usual dirty, grimy locations that have a layer of ick on them, it seems that these two decided you know what it's time to make a fun horror film...and what fun it is!
The plot breakdown is courtesy of IMDB.com -
Lake Victoria's annual Spring party by 50,000 young revelers is about to turn into a feeding frenzy with prehistoric hunger-pains. With knee-trembler's above the waves and tremors below, released from their dormant sleep, thousands upon thousands of flesh-eating nippers are released into the lake with whetted appetites and razor-sharp teeth. With a motley crew of strangers thrown together to defend these shores, it is now up to them to prevent the largest eat-out in human, and piranha, history.
If you think that the premise is ridiculous...well it is. It's camp, gore and boobs - lots of boobs - all rolled up into an amazing horror/comedy burrito, that tastes as good as that sounds.
Starting off a lot like Jaws, we have the discovery of the fish, the fish expert, the crazy fish expert (Christopher Lloyd going back to the future as a crazy professor) and plenty of the fish bait (mostly pornstars...er...so I am told) along for the ride.
The CGI fish are hokey and not convincing but that is part of the charm. The films Pièce de résistance comes when a Spring Break gathering ends up getting bloody and then some, such wonderfully funny carnage you are likely to see this side of Peter Jackson's Brain Dead.
Leave your brain at the door or switch it to 15 year old boy mode and you'll have a great time with a film that doesn't take its self seriously.
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