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Piranha (1978)
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Roger Corman produced this shameless Jaws rip-off at the height of the "nature gone wild" boom of American cinema and struck B-movie gold. Scripted by John Sayles and directed by Joe Dante, this tongue-in-cheek thriller stars Bradford Dillman (doing his best Rip Torn impression) as an antisocial mountain man and Heather Menzies as a rookie detective who race a school of mutant piranha downriver. Dante and Sayles provide the requisite blood and gore for this drive-in meat market: a kids' summer camp and a waterfront amusement park await the little beasties. Along the way, riverside retiree Keenan Wynn gets his ankles stripped...
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Piranha Movie Review by Jarrod  (5/23/2008) |
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'Piranha' is a shameless and superficial rip-off of Jaws, and I happened to see it for the first time on TBS, in a marathon of movies dealing with killer aquatic creatures, with Jaws, Orca, and some forgettable dreck about a monstrous octopus. Piranhas are fish, so they are in the same category as sharks, and they have a...
(complete Piranha review by Jarrod)
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