Piranha 3D (2010)

I saw JAWS when I was eleven years old and it didn’t scare me at all when I watched it. But when I first heard about PIRANHA 3D, I went to see it, and it really frightened the hell out of me. I kid you not! Directed by Alexandre Aja (Mirrors, 2006’s The Hills Have Eyes) and Produced by Mark Canton (300), the film is about an unlikely band of survivors, led by the town’s county sheriff Julie Forester (Elizabeth Shue), who must band together to stop a swarm of prehistoric, razor-sharp toothed piranhas, who have been laid dormant for two million years and set loose after a sudden underwater tremor, terrorizing the waters of Lake Victoria. Not to be confused with Africa’s Lake Victoria, the film’s location was shot in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The film also stars Adam Scott (Step Brothers) as seismologist Novak Radzinsky, Jerry O’Connell (Stand by Me) as the eccentric Derrick Jones, Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible) as Deputy Fallon, Steven R. McQueen (TV’s The Vampire Diaries) in his feature film debut as Jake Forester, Jessica Sczohr (TV’s Gossip Girl) as Kelly Driscoll, British model Kelly Brook as Danni, Ricardo Antonio Chavira (TV’s Desperate Housewives) as seismologist diver Sam, with Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) as Pet shop owner Mr. Goodman, and Richard Dreyfuss in a near-incarnation of his JAWS character Matt Hooper. This was second film I saw in 3D, being that the first one was Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland months before. I got to tell you, this movie was a lot scarier to watch in 3D than 2D, and thank god that Aja converted it during post production, although he filmed it in 2D, using the Real-3D conversion process developed by the company, Inner-D. Although this is supposed to be a horror movie, remade from the classic 1978 B film by GREMLINS director Joe Dante, this is also a funny combination with blood, guts, terrifying teeth, and wet, beautiful, naked girls flashing themselves on the screen. The actors I liked were McQueen, who was very good in his performance, and Brook, who I thought was really sexy to watch. The most horrifying scene in the film is seeing 20,000 kids being chewed up and killed by the deadly piranhas. This is also the first time a saw a very violent horror movie on the big screen, but I did have a strong stomach to watch it though. If you love Horror movies or not, than I recommend PIRANHA 3D to all you movie lovers. It is an old fashioned, thrill ride of a horror film and Steven R. McQueen said in an interview that it’s a cross difference between JAWS and SNAKES ON A PLANE, and I totally agree with him.