Piranha 3DD (2012) poster
2012 · horror · thriller · comedy · monster

Piranha 3DD

Directed by John Gulager1h 23m2012
ElsewhereIMDb3.847kRT11%Metacritic24
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.

Our read · Piranha 3DD (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want shameless water-park creature chaos with zero pretense tonight.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencegoreanimal harm

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach gross-out nudity and splattery B-movie violence.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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