PIRANHA 2 (1981) - WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2022
- Today we take a look at the film that launched James Cameron's career - Piranha II: The Spawning! And dig into what exactly went wrong on this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
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Written by Bryan Wolford
Narrated by Jason Hewlett
Edited by Lance Vlcek
Produced by Lance Vlcek & John Fallon
Executive Producer by Berge Garabedian
SERIES SYNOPSIS: Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
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Fascinating how the miserable experience Cameron had working on this film directly led to the "fever dream" that then led to Terminator, and kickstarted his entire career as we know it.
Yes I remember this movie,the flying piranhas. Well at least they never went into outer space.
You did not see the preview for the Saturday Night movie next week on Sci Fi Channel , did you?
Without Piranha 2, there would be no Terminator or Aliens.
Damn right, dude!
@@JoBloHorrorOriginals agreed actually the terminator ripped off a outer limits episode from the 60s 📼
@@mikesilva3868 Not intentionally. But yes, there are similarities.
Agree.
@@JoBloHorrorOriginals no terminator? yes. No Aliens? No.
Ridley Scott made the original Alien movie. Even if James Cameron never made HIS Aliens movie. A sequel would have eventually been made. That franchise was inevitable.
This was one for he earliest horror movies I watched as a kid. It’s been almost 40 years later and I STILL have thoughts of flying fish tearing me apart from the inside out 😂
That scene in Alligator where the kids make the one kid walk the plank into the swimming pool and the alligator gets the kid terrifies me to this day. Love that movie and it’s sequel
I saw that movie when it came out as a kid. That was 43 years ago. Til this day, it's still one of my favorite Cult classic "animal attacks" movies. That scene was bold and wild. But that was 1980s horror for you. Unapologetic! Just how it should be. None of this PG-13 BS.
@@wadewilson8011 Still freaks me out. To this day you ain’t gonna catch me near no pool at night
I never realized Dee Wallace Stone could actually act until I saw Alligator 2.
Funny how so many horror films paved the way for some of the greatest filmakers, and the genre still doesn't get the recognition it deserves...
You said THE MOST factual comment on here.
Directors who started out horror or had a foot in horror early in their careers, and went on to be powerhouses or pretty damn good directors.
Steven Spielberg: JAWS.
Ridley Scott: Alien
John Carpenter: Halloween.
John Landis: An American Werewolf in London.
Joe Dante: Piranha.
Sam Raimi: Evil Dead.
George Romero: Night of the Living Dead.
Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger and Psycho.
Tobe Hooper: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Peter Jackson: Bad Taste.
David Lynch: Eraserhead.
Guillermo Del Toro: Cronos.
Zack Snyder: Dawn of the Dead.
Francis Ford Coppola: Dementia 13.
Stanley Kubrick: The Shining. (ACWO wasn't horror).
James Wan: SAW
Brian de Palma: CARRIE
Wes Craven: The Last House on the Left.
now i understand why James Cameron became the hard on, stone cold , perfectionist later in his career.
Beautiful! When we had an unexpected "New World Pictures" reunion the time Cameron first arrived at Fox, we talked about the "fever dream" that got him to the studio. This video is even more amazing. I cherish my DVD of this movie even more now.
I don't care want anybody says about Piranha 2, I love it. The original is one of my favorite Jaws rip-offs ever. I really enjoy your videos. Excellent channel.
DAMM RIGHT , one of my fav creature horror movies ever. Same level like "day of the animals" "Link" and "In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro" . Some say : It`s not Terminator 2. No shit Sherlock :) Great Movie and especially a fantastic Soundtrack
Without Piranha 2, James Cameron wouldn't have made Terminator which helped boost Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom. Without Schwarzenegger's star power, we would have never had movies like "Junior" or "Last Action Hero". What kind of world would that have been?
The Piranha series really had a Resident Evil-style setting. Unscrupulous military scientists tampering with things that they shouldn't.
I think I have never heard before that story about the shooting of the morgue scene (although I might be wrong and simply forgot about it); James Cameron's drive when shooting a film is definitely the stuff of legend, even on his beginnings.
James Cameron did stick around to help Giannetto Di Rossi with the mechanical Piranha effects after he was fired
Great video love the info
Spielberg was known when jaws came about, thanks to Duel and it wasn't a Piano used for the theme. it was a Tuba.
*The Animal Horror Never Dies* 🎲
This was one of my childhood favs and first Lance movie I had ever watched.
Thanks for good video once again! Well never forget Barracuda 1978 😜 That was one of the kind movie..
I use to own a Horror Movie Guild book that stopped in early 84.
The review for Piranha 2 said that the name James Cameron must be an alias since no person would put their real name on a film this bad .
I thought that this film was bad. But Piranha 3DD is even worse than this.
“A world without Commando.” I’m gonna have nightmares tonight.
Well done 👍🏻
Thank you! Cheers!
I saw this on late night TV and it was awesome
Don't forget that Cameron's career would also, like Schwarzenegger, give Lance Henriksen's acting career a boost.
Watched it once back when it was,released ...funny and very silly with flying fish lol
uf, now I know why Cameron had nightmares after the production, but thanks to that we have The Terminator
Alligator was decent for it's time.
What an unfortunate last name....Assonitis........... lmfao!!!
Great job. Remember seeing the trailer on a old beta tape. When i finally saw the whole thing it was only enjoyable because of some pot. Strange, Tentacles wasn't that bad.
Goddamn do I love Alligator. Good to hear Matt's music, too!
A world without commando?! It doesn’t even bear thinking about.
Great video dude! Crazy thing, the image of the Piranha 2 laserdisc you shown in the video, I was literally just buying that paticular LD off of Ebay while watching this video! That you can't time on purpose. XD
You were always a man of fine tastes!
@@JoBloHorrorOriginals I am... but after a few hours after I bought it, the seller told me the LD had bad laserot and wasn't playable, so he canceled the order and I got a refund. ARGH. XD But still, thanks!
I hope to never have my arm chopped off. I don't want to see how many maggots are in there right now. XD
Wasn't this movie also significant for being Joe Dante's big break? I thought this was the one who brought him to Spielberg's attention... =)
The music..check out the music..Stelvio Cipriani..
The music is from Film Riot.
I love the original Piranha. It's worth watching just to see the creepy marine biologist Dr. Mengers (Barbara Steele) alone.
At 3:52 isn't that the dismembered arm from Star Wars?
Man I have never seen this movie but WOW hearing the stuff that happen on this movie WOW just WOW
I was about to ask why they would need to close the beach for fresh water fish... But then, they don't fly either!
Do we ever get to know what happened to the hotel manager, Raoul during the nighttime attack, after he jumps out of the lifeguard tower?
By "American" director, did they just mean "native English-speaker"? 'Cause I'm pretty sure ol' Jim is Canadian...
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You should do a video on the movie Mosquito. Same kinda thing lol I loved it as a kid. Super cheesy B or C horror movie
I agree .
@9:04 that dude has a serious sweat on....
Ooh la la!!!!!😛
Arnold had done Conan the barbarian before The Terminator already making him a famous Star, it was a big box office success.
Ahhh... fond memories of sitting in the water at AquaArena Springs with a peanut butter mix on my feet so that the minnows could be filmed coming in for a snack. I got $10 and a free pass to the mermaid show and Ralph the swimming pig. Could have gotten more, but evidently I sucked at screaming.
Yep, that's my embarrassing and pathetic brush with fame.
You were an extra in this film?
Not because of anything special about me; nearly everyone who had free time and could be rounded up was there for it. Fun and chaos.@@Fluoride_Jones
Hotel manager looks like Luca . old Ferrari president
Idk if this will be a first but I would love to see a WTF HAPPENED to James Cameron.
James Cameron was working on this movie and was sick in bed and had a dream about a cyborg rising from the flames and we got the film The Terminator.
I've heard you can get maggots to wriggle by squeezing lemon juice on them rather than electrocute them, true or false?
I asctually rather like Piranha II. It had some cool scuba scenes in it, and I rather like Tricia O'Neil as Anne. I just wish we had seen some better shots of her topside in her wetsuit (which she only wears during the climatic dive at the end of the movie, when she and Tyler plant the explosives in the shipwreck).
Saw this sequel on a bootlegged website in 2009 though it was a terrible sequel to the original piranha movie from 1978😊
Is Piranha 2 a necessary evil? You could say no BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, no GALE ANNE HURD, no GALAXY OF TERROR, no RAMBO II rewrite, no screening of a Ray Harryhausen movie in Ontario when Cameron was a kid, no matter what, we’ll never know what caused James Cameron’s fever dream but was it just a matter of time?
How about Stan Winston? No Stan Winston No Terminator or Aliens. Sorry to any hardcore Piranha 2 fans, it just occurred to me without THE TERMINATOR this film would be forgotten. HERCULES IN NEW YORK gave Schwarzenegger his start, and enjoys a similar legacy as an inauspicious stepping stone. Cause and effect is complicated.
Either way PIRANHA II is SPAWNING interpretations.
Cameron, so bad that he got fired from Piranha 2.
What happened to Assinitis?
That name kills me....lmfao!!!
The one and only James Cameron film I’ve never seen lol. I’ve heard it’s so bad though and was barely directed by him. So maybe I’m not missing much.
Wtf happened to the first movie? Fux dat
This movie was so bad I had to watch it in pieces.
The 1st one scared the shit out of me
Absolutely nothing has happened to this Joe Dante directed suspense thriller. You can go watch it on Prime right now! You're welcome.
This video is about Pirahna 2, not the first one which Joe Dante directed..You're welcome
I love this crappy film lol! I actually have it on blu ray. Maybe it’s a bit of nostalgia for me perhaps? Thanks for giving this terrible film some love!!
I love Piranha, Piranha 2, Piranha 3D, and it's so bad its good Piranha 3DD. Which for a porn, had some big names attached to it.
Watched Piranha 2 several years ago in DVD and it was absolutely awful. Not even fun on a So bad it’s good level
No, that would be Piranha 3DD, actually.
It's a multiple verse without Terminator
The helicopter is a model
Girl in waterfall
Pirana 3DD. My kind of tittle.
8:59 Violet Starr????????
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Operation razor teeth lol.
Assonitas lol funny
Outside of Lance Henriksen, the acting was atrocious throughout this movie. The characters were bland and stupid. However, it did have some great horror themes and music. I think the morgue scene was filmed by Cameron. But this woyodvf been a pretty decent movie if Cameron directed the whole thing. Whomever did the horror sequences did a pretty good job.
At least Tricia (Anne) has the excuse that she was a porn actress sick of porn and wanting to make real movies, but not properly trained. The other cast members have no such excuse.
Commando is an "awesome" film? I guess that's where the WTF comes into the picture.
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Never do a movie involving James Cameron and water. That's like a law in Hollywood.
Since when? I think after Titanic, the law would be *ALWAYS* do a movie involving James Cameron and water.
@@joelellis7035 Cameron was notorious for almost drowning people in a lot of his movies involving water. It happened in Titanic, Abyss, this movie probably, etc.
@@Plotspider Yet, his movies made money. Even Ed Harris didn't blame Cameron for his near drowning on the set.
@@joelellis7035 He only said he'd never work for the man again, AND someone made t-shirts about surviving working with Cameron.
@@joelellis7035 After Abyss
It's hard to know who's telling the WHOLE truth about just how much of what we see was actually shot by James Cameron. According to the master of cinema himself, he filmed more than 5 days worth of footage. This included most if not all of the underwater scenes, some of the special effects, & most of the scenes involving the 3 main cast members...Lance, Tricia, Paull. In fact Paull Goldin has said James was on set for most of the entire shoot & since he's in the movie throughout, I'd say he's probably correct.
I remember seeing one interview where Cameron said one of the places he and Assontis butted heads over was the Penthouse Pets who were given their own subplot in the picture (Hmmm, now it would make sense that was something that was shot later, because they're only seen on camera with one other character). I always figured that probably the opening scuba scene, with the couple having sex u/w, before being rudely interrupted by the piranha, was probably also Assontis' doing. But I had someone suggest that Cameron has a thing for u/w peril sequences (as per some of the scenes in Sanctum, which he was a producer on, and some other things that I'm probalby forgetting now), and therefore he probably actually shot that scene himself, and not Assonitis.
@@Kohntarkosz From what I remember, the 2 girls were in James Cameron's version too, just not the scene of them naked on the boat. That scene was apparently added by Ovidio G. Assonitis. As for the opening scene with the 2 divers making out & getting killed underwater, I believe that scene is in the James Cameron version as well, it just happens a little later in the movie. But it's been a long time since I've seen the Laserdisc version, so I can't say for sure.
I would recommend “ up from the depths “ to anyone looking for a very entertaining guilty pleasure. Not as good as the first piranha but much better than the second one imo. It has a awesomely cheesy killer fish and just screams 80’s new concorde Corman.
Up From The Depths is a strange movie. The first half plays like a straight horror movie (or it's trying to anyway), then about half way through, it turns it some sort of satirical piece, played for laughs. It's like they couldn't make up their mind what kind of movie they wanted to make. Scuba scenes are kinda so-so, but I love the black and green wetsuit that Sam Bottom wears in the final scuba scene.
Cameron has no testosterone now lol
you have to get a better guy to narrate these videos. This guy is hard to listen to!