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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Piranha (1978)

Directed by Joe Dante

Horror | Thriller | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sensoria, AllAboutSteve, noahphex, krazykat

Overview

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort’s rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Rated R | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Bradford Dillman | Heather Menzies | Kevin McCarthy | Keenan Wynn | Dick Miller | Barbara Steele | Belinda Balaski | Melody Thomas Scott | Bruce Gordon | Barry Brown | Paul Bartel | Shannon Collins | Shawn Nelson | Richard Deacon | Janie Squire | Roger Richman | Bill Smillie | Guich Koock | Jack Pauleson | Eric Henshaw | Robert Vinson | Virginia Dunnam | Diamond Farnsworth | Bruce Paul Barbour | Robyn Ray | Mike Sullivan | Jack Cardwell | Sally Bondi | Eric Braeden | Joe Dante | Amy Holden Jones | Andrew G. La Marca | John Sayles | Phil Tippett

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This movie scared me so much as a kid. I think it’s because there’s so much kid trauma and death.

The piranha sorta fell into that cryptid bucket, a creature with an enormous reputation based on very loose facts, adjacent to the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs. They were always a popular topic on the playground, “they can devour a human to the bone in seven seconds” or some shit.

This movie was perfectly tuned to dial into that fear.

Fun revisiting now and seeing how Joe Dante it is with sprinkles of humor and the child violence. Ofc hearing Joe Bob talk about the movie was great.

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