Yawn. Buncha fishes feasting on buncha dumb coeds on a party holiday. Whats the big kick? Sharp-teethed fishes feeding into bellies of screaming swimmers? Been there done that with Alien, All Zombie movies. But wait! This time its different! How? These razor-teeth man-eating fishes are PREHISTORIC pirahnas! They were around during the time when the DINOSAURs roamed the earth! Wow! ... Erm. Okay, still not working for me. I'm just curious, why would a Hollywood studio spend money on something so un-exciting as this? I mean honestly.
The Skinny: Tectonic movements have shifted the seabed unleashing a school of hungry PREHISTORIC pirahnas, and they're all headed for food, in the form of squealing nubile young things in two-piece bikinis and their dumb-as-shoes boyfriends.
The Helmer: Alexandre Aja - The Esseker File (2009 V), Mirrors (2008), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), High Tension (2003), Furia (1999), Over the Rainbow (1997)
The Casts: Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd, Eli Roth, Jerry O Connell
Release Date: 20th August 2010
The Prediction: I'm wondering why? Why this movie? Whats with using a noted, talented horror helmer to do this campy beast-feast flick when there are tons of good material out there? Is it a vehicle for almost-stale starrers such as the above almost-A listers? The trailer plays it pretty serious, which I'm wondering where they're going with this. Granted, I kinda dig the cast, and I dig Aja more as I was severely impressed with his unapologetic take on The Hills Have Eyes, which rocked monkey boats, and he did do the French horror hit Haute Tension, aka High Tension. So its a bit of question mark this one. But having said that, I'm still game for this movie as I am curious the extent they will go to grab my attention and hold it there for the length of the movie. So yeah, give this one a try. What will be disappointing however, if the studios are just trying to cash in on the 3D hullaballoo and just snatch any 'horror' like themes they can grab just so to make money ... but hang on, thats what everyone is doing isnt it? Man, I'm dumb.
