September 29, 2009
It?s quite bad and very laughable!
Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
DVD Release Date: November 19, 1999
Stats: 347 reviews
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August 18, 2007Bordering on B-Grade, this classic movie has an escaped tank of killer Piranha fish swimming their way into recreational waters. It has some brutal gore scenes and is quite exciting. It has its share of comedy as well. Quite a movie!
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June 24, 2007Piranha boasts some very tongue-in-cheek direction from Joe Dante, making this far more amusing than (and sometimes just as scary in places as) "Jaws".
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June 23, 2007Campy and fun to watch when you can enjoy with friends, beers, and lots of drugs. :)
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May 12, 2007Daft B-movie semi-spoof that sees a murderous shoal of piranhas munching through local inhabitants. It's not particularly funny or scary, but it's inoffensive enough. Fans of Arachnophobia will probably like it.
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June 19, 2009Terrible dialog and a swarm of Piranha that attack with blurry blood-red repetitive bite footage and shrieks that sound like one of those out-of-control novelty toddler railroad trains that they set up in Malls around christmas time.
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May 7, 2009A scary and amusing little film from Dante. Full of cameos from genre veterens. This will scare you out of freshwater like Jaws scared you out of the ocean! This is the best Jaws rip off! And it has held up better in the years than Jaws has.
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March 27, 2009Guilty pleasure, surprisingly fun and effective. It's a childhood fav.
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January 10, 2006
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
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