Piranha Women

Needed more length to develop the story/script. This way it is just things happening in the second half, even switches protagonist for no reason, leading the whole thing to confusion and a pile of mess.

Truly sad thing, as the technical aspect, even the acting was great, and there is a film here - if you add 30 extra minutes to let things walk their path.

Directed by beloved director Fred Olen Ray, Piranha Women is relatively a simple odd story with an interesting concept but it doesn't quite reach the heights that it possibly could have. It is very silly and not meant to be taken too serious.

With a run time of under one hour, this is quite a short film where everything does move quickly, yet things aren't exactly fully developed.

The lead protagonist is the standard generic likeable character we are to root for. The main problem with the film is there is too much focus on him, and not enough on these "Piranha women" (Keep Chambers, Carrie Overguaard). The acting is subpar to average as we would expect.

The ending is rushed and it gets a little silly and over the top, the transformations in that.

Piranha Women is a good little short horror film from "Full Moon Pictures" by Fred Open Ray.

An island doctor is using piranha DNA to cure sick women. When Richard's girlfriend goes to the doctor, asks him to stay out all night, then leaves while he's at work the next day he decides to investigate what's going on.

The previous evening, Richard and his buddy/coworker, Jeffrey go to a small local bar. Jeffrey leaves with a woman from the bar, and ends up dead. This leaves Richard as the main suspect. He returns to the bar to try to figure out what happened and clear his name.

He learns about the piranha DNA and sets out to rescue his girlfriend.

The idea of "Piranha Women" is pretty cool. The effects aren't bad for this type of movie. Worth checking out 7/10.

Coming from the director of Beverly Hills Vamp, it's an improvement, but that's only saying so much. There is a good idea here with a mad doctor creating fish hybrid females. I just the drama was mixed in better.

There are seeds of a good concept with the protagonist's girlfriend ending up with the inhabitants and the boyfriend trying to figure out what is going on. The biggest mistake is how it focuses too much on the boyfriend. If more time was devoted to the other characters, I think this would have been a solid B movie. Unfortunately, Piranha Women takes off right when it begins to end. And once it ends, we feel a damp and unsatisfied conclusion. I feel it would have been better to take a cue from Joe Dante's The Howling. A much better movie about a secret society of monsters hiding in a world. This could have reached those heights if only more focus was placed on the other unique elements plugging into it.

Attempting to battle a cancer diagnosis, a woman's visit to a sketchy doctor for an experimental treatment causes her to drift away from her boyfriend, and when he finds himself involved in a series of murders around town has to solve the connection between them to save her.

This wasn't too bad of a genre effort but has a few drawbacks. The initial setup here is worthwhile enough, getting an idea of their relationship being strained by her condition and work issues while also meeting the experimental doctor with his treatments that turn out far more devious than expected. This leads to several intriguing storylines involving the miraculous recovery from her treatments and her subsequent escape into the underground, the murder mystery involving the co-worker, and the race to uncover the exploits of the doctor at the center. That ends up leading into the one issue with this one where, because it's so short and has so much going on, a lot of the horror here gets neutered. While the attacks are bloody enough and have some fine cheesy effects present, there's barely enough of them here with the film opting for a detective angle investigating everything rather than the idea of the flesh-eating women being involved. As this isn't all that logically carried out due to a series of cliches involving skepticism, ignoring clear evidence and failing to follow through on ideas makes it more problematic leading to its issues.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and Nudity.