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A Tim Burton-Inspired Short About A Little Girl Who Gets A Pet Piranha

Pets can be an excellent way to teach kids about responsibility and how to treat living creatures, but not all pets are a great idea for kids. And when the little girl in this cheerfully macabre short film accidentally ends up with murderous piranha instead of a goldfish, things get bloody very quickly. Jordan Blum…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 26

Brave girl fishes piranhas holding a piece of raw meat with her hand

Watching this Brazilian girl fishing piranhas barefoot made me cringe. Watching the water boil when the piranhas devour a piece of rawmeat she is holding inches away from them made me cringe a bit more. But watching her doing it with such ease is what impresses me the most. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jan 8

Megapiranha was real and it could bite harder than a T. rex

Yes, it sounds like the name of an awful horror knockoff (this one, to be exact), but a 22-pound beast known as Megapiranha paranensis once roamed the water 10 million years ago, and its bite was truly something to fear. An international team of researchers recently provided some of the first authoritative calculations of how…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 1

The bad guy of Piranha 3DD tells us about his aquatic swingers’ club

In Piranha 3DD — the sequel to 2010’s “nubile swimmers getting eaten underwater” flick Piranha 3D — a sleazy water park monitored by stripper lifeguards and an unapologetically ineffectual David Hasselhoff is invaded by hungry fish. io9 had a quick chat with comedian David Koechner about playing P3DD’s villainous water slide magnate and the public’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 31

US Coasts Could Be Guarded by Unmanned Piranha Drone Boats

UAV’s are old hat nowadays—they’ve been overhead for nearly a decade. The next frontier in unmanned vehicles isn’t in the air. It’s on the waves. The Piranha Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) could revolutionize ocean-based military operations drones have done for the skies. The Piranha USV prototype, developed by Zyvex Marine, is a 54-foot long drone…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 11

Future Soldiers Could Go to War Wearing Fish-Scale Armor

Piranha have a well-earned reputation for being able and willing to eat just about anything in their path. One of the few exceptions is the Arapaima, a six-foot long, 300-pound Amazonian predator with bony scales capable of withstanding the toothy onslaught. Researchers are now working to adapt the Arapaima’s defenses to protect our own squishy…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 11

Those Motherf*cking Piranhas Can Talk to Each Other

Not only these nasty little fish are vicious, but scientists have discovered that those bloody piranhas can talk to each other. They use three sounds, each of them meaning a different thing. One of the sounds is a bark used to intimidate rivals. The other two are drumming songs produced when they attack each other…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 13

In Praise of the 3D B-Movie

You know what’s great about 3D B-movies? Everything! Big schlocky horrorfests have always been where 3D thrives, and for good reason. Here’s why, and why it matters. [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/in-praise-of-the-3d-b-movie-5617841

Movies Brian Barrett Dec 23

Is summer 2011 going to be your ultimate movie nerdgasm?

The summer of 2010 was a bit underwhelming as far as movies went — but summer 2011’s looking like the craziest of them all, with the densest concentration of nerd-candy ever. At least, Jon Favreau is calling it a “bloodbath.” Talking to the L.A. Times’ Hero Complex blog on Monday, the Iron Man director remarked…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 4

Piranha 3D’s $10 million opening weekend spawns a sequel?

Piranha 3D has only been in theaters for one weekend, but that’s not stopping the studio from delivering even more bloody bikini-clad fish carnage. Piranha 3D – The Sequel is already being planned by Dimension Films. But where? While we’re sure it’s way too early to jump the gun on where Piranha 3D- The Sequel…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 24

Watch the bloody Piranha 3D footage that was banned from TV

Piranha 3D might not have made huge waves at the box office, but maybe if the networks were bold enough to run these smutty ads, it would have done better. Check out the promo that was too hot for TV. Click to view According to Blastr, here are a few of the comments/problems that the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 23

In Praise of the 3D B-Movie

3D movies! They’ve been around, in one form or another, almost as long as cinema itself. But for every prestige film like Avatar that pushes the medium to new heights, there are a dozen Piranha 3Ds. Thank god. Take a look back at the first wave of films in 3D and see which names resonate:…

Movies Brian Barrett Aug 20

The original Piranha movie was really about the politics of military science

With the 3D remake of 1978 cult flick Piranha coming out today, it’s time to look back at the Roger Corman-produced original. Written by acclaimed indie director John Sayles, Piranha is a weird mix of toothy fish and lefty politics. In case you can’t guess what this movie is about, after having watched every Syfy…

Movies Annalee Newitz Aug 20

One of space opera’s greatest rogues is getting his own movie at last

Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3-D comes out today, but he’s already planning his next project: the roguish Space Pirate Cobra. A precursor of Han Solo and Mal Reynolds, the anime character became huge in Europe, but now he’s coming for us. I hadn’t heard of Space Pirate Cobra (also translated as Cobra the Space Pirate) until…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 20

“Piranha 3D” cast lobbies for some very special Academy Award nominations

For your consideration: We nominate Piranha 3D in the “best penis being gobbled up and spit out in 3D” Oscar category. Here is Piranha 3D’s plea to the Academy for some nominations. Click to view Piranha 3D: For Your Consideration from Piranha 3D [Top Image Piranha Via 3D The Movie]

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 17

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A Tim Burton-Inspired Short About A Little Girl Who Gets A Pet Piranha

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Megapiranha was real and it could bite harder than a T. rex

The bad guy of Piranha 3DD tells us about his aquatic swingers’ club

US Coasts Could Be Guarded by Unmanned Piranha Drone Boats

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Those Motherf*cking Piranhas Can Talk to Each Other

In Praise of the 3D B-Movie

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Watch the bloody Piranha 3D footage that was banned from TV

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The original Piranha movie was really about the politics of military science

One of space opera’s greatest rogues is getting his own movie at last

“Piranha 3D” cast lobbies for some very special Academy Award nominations

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