Piranha (1978)

5.1	Listal rating
5.8	IMDB rating

Directed by

Joe Dante

Starring (View all)

Bradford Dillman

Paul Grogan

Heather Menzies-Urich

Maggie McKeown

Dr. Robert Hoak

Jack

Buck Gardner

Dr. Mengers

Betsy

Laura Dickinson

Written by

Richard Robinson

(story) and

John Sayles

(story)

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An average movie

3 months, 4 weeks ago at Jan 24 15:33

johanlefourbe

Since I'm not a huge fan of this genre, I wasn't expecting much from this flick. However, since I have a weak spot for Joe Dante's work, I still wanted to check it out. First of all, I was quite surprising to discover that John Sayles was one of the writers on this movie (Apparently, he used the profits from the film to fund his own projects. It was also his scriptwriting debut). Eventually, since... read more

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Release date : 3 August 1978
UPC: 736991418943

Horror (11), 1978 (7), Sci-fi (5), Comedy (5), 1970s (4), Boats (3), Monster (3), Animal Attack (3), Water (3), Animals (2), Blood (2), Piranha (2), Rated R (2), Joe Dante (2), Animal (1), (1), *saipal (1), Saturn Award Nominee (1), 01 (1), Dumb (1)

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johanlefourbe posted a review 3 months, 4 weeks ago

An average movie

“Since I'm not a huge fan of this genre, I wasn't expecting much from this flick. However, since I have a weak spot for Joe Dante's work, I still wanted to check it out. First of all, I was quite surprising to discover that John Sayles was one of the writers on this movie (Apparently, he used the profits from the film to fund his own projects. It was also his scriptwriting debut). Eventually, since it is a Roger Corman production, you pretty much already know what you are getting into, even before the whole thing started (blood, naked chicks and some cheap thrills). As I expected, it was a rather weak horror/monster flick with some cheap ass special effects, a total rip-off of 'Jaws' but since Spielberg himself loved it, they didn't even get sued. I was actually surprised that they even wen” read more

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