When Sea Creatures Attack....
I don’t know about you, but for me, when the weather warms up and we’re starting to be dimly threatened by summer, all I want to do is watch sea creature related peril movies, particularly if they primarily involve beaches and bikinis. So in celebration of Britain's brief attempt at not being bleak and drizzley, last week I watched: Piranha (1978) Still awesome. Completely silly, completely B Movierrific, completely camp and completely wonderful. Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981) Clearly James Cameron’s finest film. It’s got Lance Henriksen in it and it taught me several valuable lessons: 1) Having sex underwater is stupid. 2) Piranhas can fly. Not glide in a favourable wind like lesser fish, literally fly. 3) It’s remarkably easy to make a waterproof time bomb. 4) A torch is an inadequate weapon against piranhas. 5) I hate Titanic , it still sucks. 6) I’d probably watch anything with the word ‘spawning’ in the title. It’s a great word. Piranha (19...