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Piranhas, Holes, and Joe Dante

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (15)



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Before directing Gremlins and Gremlins 2, Joe Dante — a protégé of Roger Corman, like Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron — has his feature directing debut in 1978 with Piranha, a Corman-produced so-bad-it’s good killer piranha movie.

Thirty-two years later, Alexandre Aja — in an effort to recapture the so bad it’s good vibe of the original — is remaking Piranha in 3D. With lots of blood. And Eli Roth. We showed you the teaser trailer last week, and here’s the first full-length trailer. On the basis of the trailer alone, it looks like it achieves exactly what it set out to do.



Meanwhile, Joe Dante — 32 years after his debut — is back with his first feature in years (since 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action). This one, too, is in 3D. But the tone couldn’t be any more different: It’s a family-friendly horror movie. Think Poltergeist in tone, although, I think this is a little too kid friendly for my tastes.

Here’s the trailer for The Hole.









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Comments

Is that fish on steroids? Pyranha are little itty bitty fish. There's just lots of them, with teeth.

Posted by: BWeaves at May 3, 2010 11:38 AM

Is that fish on steroids? Pyranha are little itty bitty fish. There's just lots of them, with teeth.

Posted by: BWeaves at May 3, 2010 11:38 AM

Did you watch the trailer? These are pre-historic piranhas that have been extinct for thousands (millions?) of years. Like everything back in Caveman Times, shit was bigger, badder and had more teeth (see, e.g., Mega-Shark).

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at May 3, 2010 11:43 AM

OR the Giant Octopus, lest we forget!!!

Posted by: adam at May 3, 2010 11:50 AM

The Hole seems to borrow heavily in some parts from The Gate.

I might still see it anyway (not in 3D). But the dog better not die.

Posted by: Nat Kittyface at May 3, 2010 11:53 AM

I'm gonna be honest here: That Piranha remake looks ...well, magical.

Posted by: Anna von Beaversmack at May 3, 2010 11:56 AM

There are so many actors I like in Piranha. I am so confused.

Posted by: Nimue at May 3, 2010 12:01 PM

BWeaves, haven't you heard? Scientists figured out how to make fish with six-pack abs. That is true.

And The Hole looks like fun. Even if there might be clowns. Christopher Lloyd isn't in both of these, is he?

Posted by: Charlie Dia at May 3, 2010 12:11 PM

I like that in the last shot the super piranha stops just before eating the girl's face and shrieks. That is just full of win. I may lift my "NO 3D" embargo for this one.

Posted by: TylerDFC at May 3, 2010 12:11 PM

Yeah. That's what Joe Dante wants you to think. Gremlins messed me up big time and I was always told that was a cute, family-friendly horror. I didn't sleep well for nights when I first saw it. I was 21.

The Hole will probably be just as messed up. Dante doesn't do simple and cute with horror. He's a twisted man and I eagerly await his return to form.

Posted by: Robert at May 3, 2010 12:28 PM

Ving Rhames: the poor man's Michael Clark Duncan or visa versa?

Posted by: admin at May 3, 2010 12:44 PM

I think he's the poor man's Swoosie Kurtz.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at May 3, 2010 1:18 PM

The Hole looks interesting, and I'd want to see it more if the trailer didn't feel like it was trying too hard with the narration. And the music.
But still--creepy dolls. *shivers* Will someone please tuck me in? And leave the hall light on?

Posted by: Jim Doggie at May 3, 2010 1:21 PM

So are we supposed to think that the girl at the end of the trailer for Piranha is carrying some piranha in her womb or are they assuming most people forgot about Alien 3?

Posted by: schrome at May 3, 2010 1:52 PM

I keep getting this new Joe Dante film mixed up with the Imax proctology documentary The Hole in 3D.

Posted by: laredo at May 3, 2010 5:33 PM

Richard Dreyfus looks like he's reprising his Jaws role as Matt Hooper. Lol.

Posted by: Davad at May 4, 2010 7:34 AM