Tag Archives: Joe Dante
Halloween Memories: Heidi Honeycutt
Planet Fury’s Halloween Memories series has focused on our favorite women currently working in the horror and genre arena. So, of course, we couldn’t end without talking to the woman dearest to Planet Fury’s bloody heart: our very own editor-in-chief, Heidi Honeycutt. Though she works mainly as a journalist these days, Heidi has been kicking [...]
A Bloody Good Time—Piranha 3D
Leave it to a Frenchman to bring back the fun back to the exploitation film, a much loved indigenous American art form that’s grown somewhat antiseptic in recent years. But “bring back the fun” is exactly what director Alexandre Aja has done with Piranha 3D, his recent remake of Joe Dante’s classic 1978 Jaws parody. [...]
Compare and Contrast—Back to the metaphorical well with Piranha 3D
In the grand tradition of Wednesday’s “Battle of the Nights of the Demons” and countless other instances of days when I don’t have anything of substance to present (insert here a joke about my posts’ persistent lack of substance), I give you today’s substance-less post. Today sees the release of Piranha 3D, another in the [...]