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Piranha was a Jaws
rip-off directed by Joe Dante and produced by Roger Corman in 1978. Universal Studios tried to stop the film from being released (because of its' satirizing of Universal's Jaws films), but Steven Spielberg saw the film in advance and liked it. The film spawned several sequels that Dante wasn't involved with.

Tagline: Lost River Lake was a thriving resort - until they discovered...

Plot summary

Insurance investigator Maggie McKeown is dispatched to find two missing teenage hikers near Lost River Lake. She hires surly backwoods drunkard Paul Grogan to serve as her guide. Searching the area, they find an abandoned military facility. The only resident is Dr. Robert Hoak, former head of a top-secret project to breed piranha for use in the Vietnam War. The project was closed down years ago, but Hoak has continued raising a deadly strain of the flesh-eating fish.

When Hoak in knocked unconscious, Maggie and Paul accidentally release the piranha into a local river, which leads to the lake where a children's summer camp and a newly opened tourist resort will provide plenty of fish food for the hungry predators. Maggie and Paul race to warn the locals, but their pleas fall on skeptical ears, such as those of resort owner Buck Gardner — until the piranha reach the swimmers.

Main cast

Bradford Dillman
- Paul Grogan
Heather Menzies
- Maggie McKeown
Kevin McCarthy
- Dr. Robert Hoak
Keenan Wynn
- Jack
Dick Miller
- Buck Gardner
Barbara Steele
- Dr. Mengers
Belinda Balaski
- Betsy
Melody Thomas Scott
- Laura Dickinson
Bruce Gordon - Colonel Waxman
Barry Brown
- Trooper
Paul Bartel
- Mr. Dumont

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Movies - Piranha

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