At least now that particular mistake has been mended by Aja himself. Here is what the director (right) said recently in an interview, regarding his film’s date shift: “We pushed production back to spring for weather reasons and location reasons. There’s so many problems that we’re going to have to solve. After doing a movie with mirrors where it was kind of like a nightmare to avoid all the reflections, making a movie in 3D underwater and on the water is going to be the biggest challenge.”
Okay, that’s sounds like a feasible explanation. At least the date wasn’t shifted because of script rewrites. I truly appreciate Aja as a filmmaker. I honestly can say that I’ve enjoyed every one of his previous films. Of course, some were better than others, but the quality and imagination and gore were always there. The man knows his horror and it sounds like he’s taking the same carefully constructed approach with PIRANHA. Check out what else he had to say during his interview:
“Something I’ve been trying to do for almost ten years now is make movies where the audience is not watching a story or watching some actors, but where the audience is crossing the screen and getting on the other side of the mirror, if you will, and lives the nightmare of the screen with the protagonist. When James Cameron said that he wanted to go back and reinvent 3D technology, I always thought with my writing and producing partner that it would be the best tool to create the best horror movie. When people are a version of the audience inside the movie, what is the best thing in 3D to create the full-immersion? I think it’s only logical to use the horror genre for 3D to become even more efficient.”
Now there’s a man with his horror head screwed on just right!