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
I think I used this as background while I was cleaning so I wasn't super invested. Although I would say that though they didn't have the budget of Jaws, it was slightly more accurate to how piranhas should be behaving compared to how they're actually behaving. I think this sets up a more believable scenario in which something is wrong with the this population of piranhas, which is scarier than Jaws and had more going on than Jaws.
A jaws ripoff but a good jaws ripoff.
I like to put this on for fun background sound while I’m cleaning the house. When the monster is in the water and the healthiest thing you can do is stay out of the water these folks find every reason to get in it.
Cheesy Dante classic
love it