New domestic one-sheet for Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D!

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

We’ve been getting lots of variation on the PIRANHA 3D poster in recent weeks (check out our Pimpin’ Poster Palace to see ’em all), but this may be the… busiest. I guess it’s alright, although someone might want to tell those piranhas that they’re swimming right past the chick!

PIRANHA 3-D is set in Lake Havasu, Arizona, when a tremor causes the lake’s floor to open, setting free scores of prehistoric piranhas… They’re back! Every year the population of sleepy Lake Havasu explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for a single, wild weekend – the 4th of July, a riot of sun, drunken fun and sex-crazed mayhem. But this year, there’s something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers. Havasu sits in the crater formed by a prehistoric volcanic eruption, and when earth tremors tear open a crack in the lake floor, all hell breaks through. Piranhas – a million ravenous, razor-toothed monsters, unchanged since the dawn of time. Unstoppable killing machines acting blindly under one primeval impulse: to hunt down anything that moves and strip it to the raw, bleeding bone. In seconds.

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