Piranha (1978)
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Joe Dante
Cast
Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Keenan Wynn, Kevin McCarthy, Barbara Steele
The story
Two teenagers find an abandoned military compound and skinny dip in a holding pool, but are attacked and killed by unseen creatures. Sometime later, determined yet absent-minded skiptracer Maggie McKeown is dispatched to find the missing teenagers near Lost River Lake and hires a surly backwoods drunkard, Paul Grogan, to guide her. They discover the compound and find bizarre jarred specimens and evidence of an occupant inside.
Genres
Animalhorror, Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film
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