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Piranha (1978) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 2, 2003
Budget $660,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Studio New World
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Other Titles
• Piranha
• Piranhas (1978)
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Genre: Horror, Animals, Mutants, Monsters, Suspense, Cult Classic, Serial Killer, Gore, Spoof, Campy, Investigation, Murder
Tagline: Lost River Lake was a thriving resort - until they discovered...
Plot: "Operation Razorteeth," a government project involving the breeding of mutant piranhas, gets way out of hand when the fish raid a lake at a summer camp for kids in this Roger Corman-produced, Joe Dante-directed classic. Heather Menzies stars as Maggie McKeown, an insurance investigator out to trace a missing teenage couple who have disappeared in the woods. With the help of a drunken recluse, Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman), they come across a supposedly deserted army base inhabited by Dr. Robert Hoak (Kevin McCarthy) who has been breeding the deadly fish in secret. In their hunt for the missing couple McKeown and Grogan drain the army pool, unleashing millions of mutant piranhas into the lake of a nearby children's summer camp and a newly opened tourist resort. Smart exploitation with a ludicrous and clever script co-written by John Sayles, this drive-in answer to JAWS is full of film references and plenty of B-movie thrills (gore and nudity). PIRANHA is the kind of movie they don't make anymore--and better yet--it holds up
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 Effective low-budgeter piles on the blood, but never gets too stupid. Dante made his directorial debut with this entertaining flick.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
The film plays mostly for laughs and isn't all that scary. Paul Bartel is funny as the camp's hyper-anal retentive head counselor.-- (eSplatter.com)
Good film to check if you're into animal-attack horror movies. Enjoyable and interesting. Watch with an open mind. 7/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
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| Directed by |
Joe Dante
Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The 'burbs |
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| John Sayles
The Howling, The Clan of the Cave Bear, Battle Beyond the Stars |
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 | Bradford Dillman
Sudden Impact, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Enforcer | | Keenan Wynn
Dr. Strangelove, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Last Unicorn | Dick Miller
The Terminator, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch | | |
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