Movie
![Poster of the movie Piranha [1978]](/images/posters/1000x1500/55/piranha-1978-us-poster.jpg)
1978 Horror/comedy
1h 34min
Country | USA |
R
"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. 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.
Directed by | Joe Dante |
Written by | Richard Robinson, John Sayles |
Company | New World PicturesNew World PicturesNew World Pictures |
Starring
Bradford Dillman
Kevin McCarthy
Keenan Wynn
Dick Miller
Heather Menzies-Urich
Barbara Steele
Belinda Balaski
Melody Thomas Scott
Bruce Gordon
Barry Brown
Paul Bartel
Shannon Collins
Shawn Nelson
Richard Deacon
Janie Squire
Roger Richman
Bill Smillie
Guich Koock
Jack Pauleson
Eric Henshaw
Robert Vinson
Virginia Dunnam
Diamond Farnsworth
Bruce Paul Barbour
Robyn Ray
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