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"don't worry mom! they're slow on land!"

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they also make me for the first time since coraline really want to watch a 3D movie. even though i get headaches.

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i haven't seen piranha the 1978 original (it's hard to find/out of print/in license limbo) but i know it was a roger corman ripoff of jaws-- directed by joe dante, who later made gremlins.

this is probably why the beginning of gremlins is reminiscent of corman's little shop of horrors-- the narrator kinda like a detective story.

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for another corman connection, i read that black sunday ran as a double feature with the original little shop of horrors.

CORMAN IS EVERYWHERE