10 Criminally Underrated Monster Movies
2. Piranha 3D
Okay, so it's time to clear up one thing right off the bat.
Yes, admittedly 2010's remake Piranha 3D is not as smart or satirical as Joe Dante’s scrappy, low budget 1978 original. That said, this 2010 flick from Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja is proof positive that the Switchblade Romance director and torture porn auteur was willing to finally loosen up and have some fun at the multiplex after half a decade spent traumatizing filmgoers.
Wildly underrated, the flick is a gory, silly fun time which boasts Richard Dreyfuss and Eli Roth cameos, a hilariously cheesy Jerry O'Connell performance, some seriously tense sequences, and tons of laugh-out-loud gory spectacle, not to mention a genuinely stunning, beautifully shot underwater nude dance sequence (no, seriously).