Piranha

Piranha
5.9

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Directed by: Joe Dante

Overview

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

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Reviews (5)

  • Gimly (Rated: 4)

    Not a terrible film, but there was a remake in the 90s with the exact same story featuring better acting and better effects, so you can probably skip straight ahead to that one. Now I know that if I had been around when that remake came out, I'd probably be the first in line to complain "Why'd you e...

  • Wuchak (Rated: 8)

    Adventuresome and fun "Jaws" homage with far superior women

    RELEASED IN 1978 and directed by Joe Dante, “Piranha” chronicles events when genetically-enhanced piranha are accidently released into a river system in central Texas, which threaten kids & counselors at a Summer Camp and vacationers at...

  • Kamurai (Rated: 5)

    Decent watch, probably won't watch again, but can recommend for fans of Jaws or any other version of this movie.

    There is a 1995 remake of this movie that I would probably watch instead if I wanted to watch this gain.

    Not-trigger warning: There is a surprising LACK of gore in this movie.

    Th...

  • The Movie Mob (Rated: 5)

    Piranha is bad 70s creature feature gold! It's so bad it's great and a fun ride as long as you expect a total cheesefest.

    Piranha is cheesy 70s/80s creature films at their very best! It has everything - evil military generals, obligatory lake celebrations, scientific experimentation gone wron...

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)

    "People eat fish, fish don't eat people"! Well, that might be the theory but when a meddlesome couple accidentally release a swimming pool's worth of genetically modified fish into a river, we discover that that mantra isn't strictly true! It's only because "Dr. Hoak" (Kevin McCarthy) is at the faci...

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