{"id":6903,"date":"2010-04-01T19:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T21:28:25","slug":"kick-starting-the-mega-piranha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/01\/kick-starting-the-mega-piranha\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-starting the Mega Piranha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Asylum&#8217;s latest giant monster absurdity, <em><strong>Mega Piranha<\/strong><\/em> (US-2010; dir. Eric Forsberg) set to premiere on the SyFy Channel on 10 April in the US, a clip has been let loose into the blogsphere\u00a0 &#8212; just to whet our appetites. No trailer yet, though hopefully that&#8217;s around the corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/megapiranha_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6905 aligncenter\" title=\"megapiranha_large\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/megapiranha_large.jpg\" alt=\"megapiranha_large\" width=\"256\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/megapiranha_large.jpg 256w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/megapiranha_large-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least you can watch Asylum regular Paul Logan and popstar Tiffany kick some piranha butt, and thus get an idea of the tone of the film, which appears to have its genre tongue firmly inserted into its cheek. Note that the piranha at this stage are big but not mega-big, though we&#8217;re assured by producer Paul Bales they get much much bigger as the plot thickens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"W48e10f5e9dbb50aa4bb3a901a1d3cb26\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/wgtclsp.syfy.com\/o\/48e10f5e9dbb50aa\/4bb3a901a1d3cb26\/4bb0b8c7f717e6aa\/787d63d1\/-cpid\/7b19eb372dbb58af\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"W48e10f5e9dbb50aa4bb3a901a1d3cb26\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/wgtclsp.syfy.com\/o\/48e10f5e9dbb50aa\/4bb3a901a1d3cb26\/4bb0b8c7f717e6aa\/787d63d1\/-cpid\/7b19eb372dbb58af\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/arrow\/index.php?id=21382\" target=\"_blank\">Arrow in the Head<\/a> via Avery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Asylum&#8217;s latest giant monster absurdity, Mega Piranha (US-2010; dir. Eric Forsberg) set to premiere on the SyFy Channel on 10 April in the US, a clip has been let loose into the blogsphere\u00a0 &#8212; just to whet our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/01\/kick-starting-the-mega-piranha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,4,44,104,51,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}