- Title: Piranha
- Original Title: Piranha
- Release Date: 03/08/1978
- Tagline: A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...
- Budget: $660,000.00
- Duration:94 Min / 01:34
- Country:US
- Genre:HorrorScience Fiction
About Film
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Movie Rating: 5.94
Total Votes: 673
Reviews
Ruuz
4/10
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 even bother? It's just the first movie over...
Wuchak
8/10
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 a lake resort. A spirited skip tracer (Heather...
Kamurai
5/10
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.
This has a decent story to it, but it shares...
mooney240
5/10
**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 wrong, horrible dialogue, low-budget effects, and...
Geronimo1967
6/10
"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 facility that our interfering pair - "Maggie"...