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Pirahna 3D. Gory deaths? Check. Demonic looking piranhas? Check. The director is the one who did The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and High Tension? Check check! Alexandre Aja pulled no punches with this remake.


  • The piranhas from the original looked like props and did kind of look ghoulish. Here, they look positively demonic...and there's a good chance that they HATE you as well as want you for food. The last shot of one of the trailers can attest.
  • The piranha attack at the wet t-shirt contest. Dear God, the horror. It's the Eclipse up to eleven, just replace demons with piranhas and with no one to blame. Just imagine: Your spring break vacation has just turned into your own personal nightmare, your friends have been brutally murdered either by the piranhas, the panicked people trying to get out of the piranhas' path, or accidents caused by the piranhas. The picturesque lake is red with blood, and the beaches you visited are covered with the dead, dying, and desperate.
  • The attack on the divers.
  • One of the worst aspects of the Piranhas the fact that, more often than not, unless they bite out something vital straight away, you are alive for every single bite, one unlucky swimmer is clearly alive after having most of her face and body eaten away, with the muffled scream only being cut off when one piranha bites out her throat.
  • The way that several piranha bite Danni By the Hair to drag her down closer to them and then take more and more bites of her as she can only scream in agony is really uncomfortable.

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