Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort. REVIEW: I love watching the early films of what are to become legendary directors both good (Peter …
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Film Review: Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
SYNOPSIS: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort. REVIEW: Many films cropped up in the late 1970s to early ‘80s looking to capitalize on the popularity of Jaws, …
Read More »Film Review: Mega Piranha (2010)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha escape from the Amazon and eat their way toward Florida. REVIEW: Written & Directed by: Eric Forsberg Starring: Tiffany, Paul Logan, Barry Williams, David Labiosa QUICK FIX: A mutant strain of viciously hungry, genetically-altered piranha escape from a super-secret, G-14 classified South American lab and go on a rampage all up …
Read More »Magazine Review: Rue Morgue Magazine – Issue 103
Every ones talking about Piranhas, and of course hot on its trail is the new film in 3D and an old “classic” revived from the grave. Rue Morgue pays their tribute with a full cover featuring the classic art that ripped off Jaws in a time when going into the waters was more scarier than Leather face. Of course it …
Read More »Top 10 Animals in Horror Films
I love animals. As a matter of fact, I am one of those people that prefer animals over people for the most part. There are all sorts of animals in the world. Some are cute and cuddly while others aren’t so much. In fact, some animals can be pretty damn terrifying under certain circumstances. Horror filmmakers are aware of this …
Read More »Podcast: Monster Movie Podcast – Eps 55
B-Movie drive-ins, blacksploitation, grindhouse and Roger Corman, beyond Jaws, The Exorcist and Halloween lies a graveyard of forgotten gems, underrated classics and much loved worst films ever. It’s the Seventies and co-hosts Doc Rotten and Santos Ellin, Jr. are joining forces to take a look at their favorite Horror Films from the grooviest decade of terror, from 1970 to 1979. Get Ready! Monster Movie Podcast …
Read More »Film Review: Piranha (1978)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two self-righteous idiots accidentally release a genetically-altered species of piranha into a stream. From there, both the piranha and the idiots slowly make their way downstream to various swimming holes and resorts, each in their own way wreaking havoc REVIEW: Written by: John Sayles and Richard Robinson Directed by: Joe Dante Starring: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, …
Read More »Film Review: Piranha 3DD (2012)
SYNOPSIS: After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into a newly opened waterpark. REVIEW: “Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina”! This dear acolytes is my nominee, actually the winner of the “Best line uttered by an actor/actress in a film” this year. And it was uttered …
Read More »More blood, more teeth and more DD’s in the red band trailer for PIRANHA 3DD
Not a ton of new footage in this RED BAND version but what there is does feature lots more blood and lots more nudity. This is going to be one crazy movie! PIRANHA 3DD is of course the sequel to the 2010 remake and it seems that after the fish finish up at the lake they head on downstream to …
Read More »Katrina Bowden to Swim with the Fishes in ‘PIRANHA 3DD’
Katrina Bowden of NBC’s 30 Rock has joined the cast of John Gulager’s PIRANHA 3DD. In addition to starring on the popular primetime television program, Bowden was also recently named Esquire Magazine’s 2011 Sexiest Woman Alive which makes her a shoo in for sexiest fish food in PIRANHA 3DD. Bowden’s arrival was announced in a press release on Tuesday and …
Read More »Now in Production ‘PIRANHA 3DD’
Filming for the fishy follow-up to Dimension Films’ hit 2010 movie PIRANHA 3D is currently underway in Wilmington, North Carolina. In the new film the mutant fish have infiltrated the waters of The Big Wet Water Park so expect a lot of people with Swimmies, tiny bathing suits, and really big breasts. Directed by John Gulager (FEAST) with a screenplay …
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