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Piranha

Name: Piranha
Director: Joe Dante
Genre: Horror
Released: 1978
Rating: 6
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller

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

1978 · Directed by Joe Dante · 94 min · Horror · 11 frames

Tagline

A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...

Crew

Screenplay: John Sayles
Cinematography: Jamie Anderson
Edited by: Joe Dante, Mark Goldblatt
Music: Pino Donaggio
Produced by: Jon Davison

Cast

Bradford Dillman as Paul Grogan
Heather Menzies as Maggie McKeown
Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Robert Hoak
Keenan Wynn as Jack
Dick Miller as Buck Gardner
Barbara Steele as Dr. Mengers
Belinda Balaski as Betsy
Melody Thomas Scott as Laura Dickinson
Bruce Gordon as Colonel Waxman
Barry Brown as Trooper

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: New World Pictures, Chako Film Company
Budget: $660,000
Box office: $16,000,000
Themes: fish, experiment, summer camp, river, animal attack, us army, reporter, campy, piranha, tent camp

More by Joe Dante

The Howling — 1981
Small Soldiers — 1998
The 'Burbs — 1989
Innerspace — 1987
The Hole — 2009
Gremlins — 1984
Gremlins 2: The New Batch — 1990
Explorers — 1985

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