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Piranha is a 1978 American sci-fi horror movie directed by Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins, Trapped Ashes; Burying the Ex) and stars Bradford Dillman (Bug), Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Physique Snatchers), Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele (Black Sunday; Shivers), Dick Miller and Belinda Balaski.
Produced by Roger Corman, Piranha is a low-budget parody of the 1975 movie Jaws, which had been a significant success for Common Studios and impressed a collection of equally themed killer critter motion pictures reminiscent of Grizzly, Tintorera, Tentacles, and Orca. Screenwriter John Sayles (Alligator) used the proceeds to fund his personal movies and in addition wrote the tie-in novelization.
The movie was adopted by a sequel, Piranha II: The Spawning, in 1981, and two remakes, a cable TV remake in 1995 and Piranha 3D in 2010, the latter of which spawned its personal sequel in 2012, Piranha 3DD.
Plot:
Two youngsters exploring at evening encounter an apparently deserted navy set up. They benefit from what seems to be a swimming pool to skinny dip. The youngsters are attacked by an unseen power and disappear below the water. A light-weight prompts in the primary constructing and a silhouetted determine investigates the screams however is just too late to assist.
A decided however considerably absent-minded insurance coverage investigator named Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is dispatched to seek out the lacking youngsters close to Misplaced River Lake. She hires surly backwoods drunkard Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman) to function her information. They arrive upon the deserted compound, which functioned as a fish hatchery previous to being militarized. They uncover weird specimens in jars and indications of an occupant. Maggie locates the drainage swap for the skin pool and decides to empty it to look the underside. Nonetheless, the second she prompts it, a haggard and frantic man assaults her, trying to cease the draining till he’s subdued by Grogan.
The 2 discover a skeleton within the filtration lure of the empty pool and be taught it was stuffed with saltwater. The person awakens and steals their jeep, however crashes it as a result of his disorientation, and is taken to Grogan’s house the place they spend the evening. They take Grogan’s selfmade raft down the river, the place the person wakes up and tells them that the pool within the facility was stuffed with a faculty of piranhas and that Maggie launched them into the river…
Our evaluation:
A traditional, energetic, enjoyable and old style monster film, Piranha is a delight. And the brand new Blu-ray version seems to be fabulous and is stuffed with extras, together with a energetic commentary from Joe Dante and producer Jon Davidson, some nice 8mm behind-the-scenes footage (once more with commentary), outtakes and a ‘making of’ that’s fairly badly put collectively and fairly poor high quality, however does function a number of the forged and crew discussing the film. General, there’s a tempting collection of supplementary materials for a movie that might be a vital buy anyway.
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