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Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?
Movie Rating: 4.7
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Ruuz
5/10
It's tough to commend any actual parts of the '95 remake of Piranha, but it's actually quite fun to group watch purely because it's so dated.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
Wuchak
5/10
**_Inferior imitation of the 1978 original_**
Genetically-enhanced piranha are accidentally released into a river system in the wilderness north of Los Angeles, which threaten kids & counselors at a Summer Camp and vacationers at a lake resort. A private investigator (Alexandra Paul) and a lonely environmentalist (William Katt) team-up to...
Kamurai
6/10
Good watch, might watch again, and can recommend for horror / thriller fans.
This is almost beat for beat the 1978 movie with some unecessary nudity and explosions thrown in, and just a little gore as the original was surprisingly absent of it.
I do feel like they casted better this time around, and the effects are decent enough that they...
r96sk
5/10
'Piranha' is a waste of time, unless you haven't seen the 1978 original I guess. It's a shot-for-shot remake, more (a bad) reenactment really, aside from a few strange changes; no spoilers, but one involving an animal and one involving a weapon are particularly odd decisions.
Aside from those mentioned bits, the rest is quite...
