Piranha (20th Anniversary Special Edition) [Roger Corman Classics] R

A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...
Piranha (20th Anniversary Special Edition) [Roger
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 26, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: New Concorde

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 12,072
Rating: 2/5 -- Extremely gory Jaws rip-off is too much for kids. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Aug 24, 2010
Rating: 3/4 -- Even Jaws director Steven Spielberg counts himself among the film's fans. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Oct 10, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Essentially, Piranha is the best example of how to do a B-movie knockoff. Full Review
FEARnet
Jan 9, 2011
... an energetic and inventive tongue-in-cheek thriller. Full Review
Parallax View
Aug 11, 2010
Rating: 3.5/5 -- If you're looking for a senseless good time that goes a long way in terms of keeping you entertained, then this Piranha package may just be everything you've been hoping to sink your teeth into. Full Review
Dread Central
Aug 5, 2010
...A surprisingly effective gag-barrel of B-movie cliches and JAWS guffaws....It's a reminder of when Hollywood could laugh at itself with unself-conscious glee...
Total Film
Aug 1, 2000
Rating: 5/5 -- Dante and Sayles have a great deal of fun with the fact that their story of government created killer fish is completely ridiculous. Full Review
Kinetofilm
Feb 1, 2010

Product Description:

"Operation Razorteeth," a government project involving the breeding of mutant piranhas, gets way out of hand when the fish raid a lake at a summer camp for kids in this Roger Corman-produced, Joe Dante-directed classic. Heather Menzies stars as Maggie McKeown, an insurance investigator out to trace a missing teenage couple who have disappeared in the woods. With the help of a drunken recluse, Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman), they come across a supposedly deserted army base inhabited by Dr. Robert Hoak (Kevin McCarthy) who has been breeding the deadly fish in secret. In their hunt for the missing couple McKeown and Grogan drain the army pool, unleashing millions of mutant piranhas into the lake of a nearby children's summer camp and a newly opened tourist resort. Smart exploitation with a ludicrous and clever script co-written by John Sayles, this drive-in answer to JAWS is full of film references and plenty of B-movie thrills (gore and nudity). PIRANHA is the kind of movie they don't make anymore--and better yet--it holds up well.

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  • Sales Rank: 128,629
  • UPC: 736991418943
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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