(1972) Zero stars
Photographer Terry and her brother Art are in Venezuela on a photography grant. Jim is hired by the duo as a guide. While in a local bar they meet up with Caribe, the handsome chap pictured above. Jim isn’t too fond of Caribe, who has a reputation of being reckless and generally nuts. After accepting Caribe’s invitation to stay at his place for the night, things go wrong pretty quickly. Caribe rapes Terry, stabs Art and leaves Jim for dead.
Okay first things first, there are no piranha in Piranha Piranha! Yes, I was bummed about this. I mean, even a crappy movie is bearable if at some point someone is eaten by a school of piranha. For crying out loud, they even use an exclamation point in the title of the movie as if to say, “We have so many piranha in this film we had to state it twice while yelling!”
In Piranha Piranha nothing happens for 75 minutes, then we’re treated to a rape, a stabbing, and very weak fisticuffs. Most of the film is padded with Peruvian music sunk to images of poor people, native animals, and a tour of a diamond market. It’s a freakin’ travelogue. Awful awful movie.
2 comments:
"I mean, even a crappy movie is bearable if at some point someone is eaten by a school of piranha."
Truer words were never spoken. One of the many important life lessons learned from Horrorthon.
Life lessons, JSP? What kind of sad days have you been living that would have been made better by getting eaten by a school of piranha?
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