Corman's 'Piranha' Blu Ray Gets Pushed Back
Jan 27th 2010 3:05PM by: Jason Murphy
What a shame! This movie has a special place in my heart. You see, it was shot not far from Austin, my base of operations. There's an 'amusement park', if you want to call it that. I visited the place in high school. It was called Aquarena Springs. As I recall, its primary attractions were gondolas and a swimming pig. Yes, you read that right - a swimming pig. This pig swam alongside a variety of co-ed mermaids. It was indeed surreal, but not nearly as cool as it sounds. And it was here that Corman unleashed his aquatic carnivores.The film, as you may recall, involves the opening of a water park, a la Jaws 3-D, which is rudely interrupted by giant, flesh-eating piranhas. And it has a crazy mountain man, played by Bradford Dillman. Watch this film and try not to fall in love with the lunatic hillbilly. He's the main character and he's completely unhinged! When he's not fighting off meat-eating fish indigenous to the Amazon, he's probably mailing explosive packages to government buildings. There's also a nifty bit of stop motion animation when he discovers the secret lab. Yes, Piranha is filled with all manner of glorious, b-movie tropes.
Recently, our own Brad McHargue reported that the Blu Ray release of this fine piece of cinema was due out in April. Sadly, Shout! Factory is now saying that they won't be blessing us with this high-def carnage until August 3rd. I imagine this has more than a little to do with the hopscotch that the Alexandre Aja-driven sequel/remake has been subjected to.
Hi-Def Digest has the skinny here.

My friends on the other side of the pond often feel unlucky when theatrical releases for highly anticipated films take their sweet time. But now they can feel lucky about one thing. Dario Argento's classic film,
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In summer, everyone can see you sweat. Ah, but in space, no one can hear you scream! The latter is, of course, the classic tagline for Ridley Scott's Alien, the coolest, darkest, most horrifying science fiction thriller of all time. (No, I'm not given to hyperbole. Why do you ask?) What better way to cool off during the summer than to contemplate deep space, where the temperatures always hover around absolute zero. In that spirit,








