Piranha
Directed by Joe Dante
While searching for missing teenagers, novice skip tracer Maggie McKeown and local town boozer Paul Grogan stumble upon a top-secret Army laboratory conducting genetic research on piranha fish for the purpose of developing biological warfare. When the deadly eating machines are accidently released from the compound, they're soon headed downstream and consuming everything, and anything, in their path.
Two people unwittingly unleash a school of deadly genetically modified piranha in Joe Dante's killer fish fav.
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy
Member Reviews
Quite possibly the first and last time in my life I will ever utter the phrase “skip this and watch the remake. ” It’s bloodier, sexier, and more fun in every way.
The film is not perfect, suffering from the low budget of its time for this type of film, with a predictable scenario, we can recognize some signatures of the director Joe Dante in this film before being the known director. The other flaw is that I would have liked the film to be even more generous in terms of violence with the dead, being a film about piranhas.
I really wanted to see what the piranhas looked like, but the movie was great either way.
Will always love the classics! I remember watching this as a kid and the part where she asked the soldier if “he was gay” as a distraction always took me out. Loved this film, Will always come back to watch it.
This fish movie is top shelf. You kind of expect sleaze and lots of t&a but it's good stuff Kind of like a dream team with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, and a John Sayles script. So you get your tits and ass with a great director and a five-star script. loved it.