Piranha (20th Anniversary Special Edition) [Roger Corman Classics] R
A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...
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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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kevin McCarthy, Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Barbara Steele & Keenan Wynn | |
Performer: | Belinda Balaski, Shawn Nelson, Bruce Gordon, Dick Miller & Melody Thomas | |
Directed by | Joe Dante | |
Edited by | Mark Goldblatt | |
Screenwriting by | John Sayles | |
Composition by | Pino Donaggio | |
Produced by | Jon Davison | |
Director of Photography: | Jamie Anderson | |
Executive Production by | Roger Corman & Jeff Schectman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Extremely gory Jaws rip-off is too much for kids.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3/4 --
Even Jaws director Steven Spielberg counts himself among the film's fans.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 4/5 --
Essentially, Piranha is the best example of how to do a B-movie knockoff.
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FEARnet
... an energetic and inventive tongue-in-cheek thriller.
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Parallax View
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.
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Dread Central
...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
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.
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Kinetofilm
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
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