pixrox1 Review of Piranha

Piranha (1978)

Amazingly, this expose of America's corrupt corporate . . .

[6/10 · 10 December 2021]

. . . culture was released BEFORE crocodiles started eating toddlers at Dizzy World, BEFORE imported murder hornets began slaying citizens in their backyards and BEFORE Big Business enabled most of America's rivers, lakes and streams to be filled with invasive zebra mussels, lampreys of various sorts and bighead carp. Col. Wax Man is PIRANHA's stand-in for Walt here, totally devoid of any thought beyond making a quick buck. The colonel is the sort of "business" bum who would bribe Florida environmental regulators, fill in an alligator lagoon and then trick the world's tourists into putting their lives on the line by visiting an "amusement" park which would be more aptly named Land of the Quick and the Dead. Certainly PIRANHA has inspired dozens of fly-by-night charlatans to bamboozle the Public with deadly water slides, grim reaper roller coasters and murderous raft rides. Bozos like the colonel have now turned the once-"Great Outdoors" available in our U. S. Homeland into a House of Horrors.