'Sharknado' promo poster

‘Sharknado’ feeding frenzy leads to Aug. 2 theatrical release

The feeding frenzy surrounding Sharknado continues to grow, according to Entertainment Weekly. The SyFy original debuted on July 11, 2013 with a respectable 1.4 million viewers, slightly below average for the network’s original films. Sharknado then went “viral”, particularly among Twitter users where it was trending at a staggering 5,000 tweets per minute. The film has continued to garner…

Poster for the 2010 mockbuster 'Mega Piranha' from The Asylum.

‘Mega Piranha’ – so bad it’s good?

April 10, 2010 saw the release of Mega Piranha (buy here), which debuted on the SyFy network. The film was obviously intended to ride the coattails of Alexandre Aja’s Piranha remake of the same year. Produced and released by The Asylum, Mega Piranha follows the company’s pattern of releasing “mockbusters”, low-budget fare with similar titles and plotlines as…