
Piranha(1978)
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.


“It started as a vacation...”
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

Tricia O'Neil
Anne Kimbrough

Steve Marachuk
Tyler Sherman

Lance Henriksen
Police Chief Steve Kimbrough

Ricky Paull Goldin
Chris Kimbrough
Ted Richert
Raoul, Hotel Manager

Leslie Graves
Allison Dumont

Carole Davis
Jai

Connie Lynn Hadden
Loretta
Arnie Ross
Mal the Cook
Tracey Berg
Beverly
Piranha II: The Spawning is a horror film released in 1982 exploring themes of beach, sequel, piranha, killer fish. Directed by James Cameron, it stars Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen. A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
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