

Piranha
A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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6.0/10
790 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $660K
- Box office
- $16M
- Language
- English
- fish
- experiment
- summer camp
- river
- animal attack
- us army
- reporter
- campy
- piranha
- tent camp
- eugenics
- killer fish
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR3 Aug 1978
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1523 Nov 1978
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1630 Nov 1978
FranceFR
- Theatrical1215 Nov 1978
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1626 Oct 1978
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG1214 Oct 1978
SpainES
- Theatrical1614 Dec 1978
Frequently asked questions
Piranha was released on 3 August 1978.
Audience reviews
7- G4/10
Gimly
1/25/2018
Not a terrible film, but there was a remake in the 90s with the exact same story featuring better acting and better effects, so you can probably skip straight ahead to that one. Now I know that if I had been around when that remake came out, I'd probably be the first in line to complain "Why'd you even bother? It's just the first movie over again!", but seeing as I watched them both in retrospect, I can ignore the fa…
- W8/10
Wuchak
7/10/2018
Adventuresome and fun "Jaws" homage with far superior women RELEASED IN 1978 and directed by Joe Dante, “Piranha” chronicles events when genetically-enhanced piranha are accidently released into a river system in central Texas, which threaten kids & counselors at a Summer Camp and vacationers at a lake resort. A spirited skip tracer (Heather Menzies) and a backwoods drunkard (Bradford Dillman) team-up to save the…
- K5/10
Kamurai
7/28/2020
Decent watch, probably won't watch again, but can recommend for fans of Jaws or any other version of this movie. There is a 1995 remake of this movie that I would probably watch instead if I wanted to watch this gain. Not-trigger warning: There is a surprising LACK of gore in this movie. This has a decent story to it, but it shares aspects with Jaws, Friday the 13th, other movies of the era. Particularly th…
- T5/10
The Movie Mob
11/27/2022
**Piranha is bad 70s creature feature gold! It's so bad it's great and a fun ride as long as you expect a total cheesefest.** Piranha is cheesy 70s/80s creature films at their very best! It has everything - evil military generals, obligatory lake celebrations, scientific experimentation gone wrong, horrible dialogue, low-budget effects, and more. It's clear as you watch the film that Piranha was heavily influenced…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/5/2023
"People eat fish, fish don't eat people"! Well, that might be the theory but when a meddlesome couple accidentally release a swimming pool's worth of genetically modified fish into a river, we discover that that mantra isn't strictly true! It's only because "Dr. Hoak" (Kevin McCarthy) is at the facility that our interfering pair - "Maggie" (Heather Menzies-Ulrich) and "Paul" (Bradford Dillman) learn of the potential …
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