NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 16: The Piranha-Verse (1978 - 2012)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

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🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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This week Alex Ayling joins Mike for some skinny dipping in grubby quarries as they dip their collective toes into the sleazy, shlocky and very silly PIRANHA movies...

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0:00.0	The These are the man-eaters who go beyond the bite of all other jaws.
0:27.0	In 1978, Roger Corman and his company New World Pictures wanted to make a new low-budget movie cashing in on the success of Stephen
0:36.8	Spielberg's Jaws.
0:38.8	This movie became Pirana, a slockey horror film shamelessly ripping off jaws about a river being infested by lethal genetically altered
0:48.1	piranha fish that threatened the lives of the locals. In classic Roger Corman's style the film the over 16 million. It spawned a sequel called The Spawning as well as remakes and
1:06.2	sequels to those remakes. But what makes this franchise stand out from the other
1:10.6	schlockey sleazy B-movie franchises of this type is the amount of
1:15.5	Hollywood talent involved, many of them making their breakthroughs into the
1:20.4	industry. The original movie was directed by master of 80s horror Joe Dante, with special effects
1:27.4	by award-winning artists Rob Boatin and Phil Tippett.
1:32.1	The remake was directed by new French extremity legend Alexandra Arja and the critically
1:38.1	panned 1982 sequel The Spawning was directed by a man who would go on to become the world's most
1:45.3	successful and highest grossing filmmaker James Cameron.
1:57.7	Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror and we dip our toe into the world of piranha. of Pirana.
2:11.0	Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter and as ever I am your host. In this
2:14.5	podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror
2:18.2	genre one sub-genre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting back and
2:26.9	this is a particularly bitey episode. We're dealing with a lot of little sharp teeth this week. We are going to be talking about the
2:35.0	piranha films. That's the original from 1978, the sequel, the spawning from 1982, the remake
2:42.3	the piranha 3D, or just Parana from 2010, and its sequel Parana 3D from 2012.
2:51.6	All of these discussions will be vaguely spoilerific, although to be honest there's
2:55.8	not a whole lot we can spoil about the plots of this films, but I would urge you to go and give
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