News Article  News Article  What Aquatic Gorefest Had the All-
time Best Opening Weekend?   Bait 3D is out on DVD and Blu-Ray
this week, and it is just one in a long line of “terror in the
water” genre films. Terror in the water can include any and all
of the above: alien lifeforms, evil mutant sea creatures, angry
giant sea creatures, supernatural forces, unknown water demons,
man-made water destruction. Over the past 30 plus years there
have been countless takes on this idea, many very good, more
pretty bad.  Most recently we’ve seen water terror return to
popularity with the monster camp of SyFy originals and the
vengeful summer bikini bloodbaths of the Piranha franchise. Some
of these movies have taken on novelty charm over the years
(Anaconda, ahem) but others actually destroyed at the box
office. So, which churned out the most money opening weekend?
FEARnet has the top 6 since 1975.  6. Open Water, 2004 -
$11,413,017 Remember this one? It can only be assumed that the
scuba tour industry took a dive in pr