

Piranha II: The Spawning
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.
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4.3/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $145.8K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- beach
- sequel
- campy
- piranha
- killer fish
- animal horror
- b-horror
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Italy, Netherlands, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR5 Nov 1982
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalRated X13 Jul 1982
- Physical18VHS7 Apr 1993
- Physical15DVD19 Jun 2003
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1624 Jun 1983
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1828 Jan 1983
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT14 Aug 1982
JapanJP
- TheatricalR18+23 Oct 1982
SpainES
- Theatrical163 Jan 1983
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Piranha II: The Spawning was released on 13 July 1982.
Audience reviews
4- G4/10
Gimly
1/25/2018
You've finally got a fix for "Hey you can beat this villain by just staying out of the water" and then they **barely ever use it**. Sure, it makes no sense that the piranha can fly, but seeing as they can, you may as well have used that ability to the max. But 99% of the victims are still water-bound. Whatever, it's a modicum of fun in that dated practical effects way. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appea…
- R4/10
r96sk
2/23/2025
<em>'Piranha II: The Spawning'</em> is woeful. You'd expect more with James Cameron at the helm, but everyone has to start somewhere; he followed up with <em>'The Terminator'</em> and <em>'Aliens'</em> so he did alright! This, his feature directorial debut, is proper rubbish though. It's seemingly less to do with Cameron anyway in fairness, it sounds like producer Ovidio G. Assonitis had his hands all over this; M…
- W6/10
Wuchak
9/21/2026
***The mutated piranha threat switches from a river in Texas to Jamaica*** Everyone knows this is the film where James Cameron debuted as director, albeit he got fired after only four days, not to mention a week’s worth of pre-production (searching for locations and so forth). Cameron believed Greco-Italian producer Ovidio Assonitis would hire American directors to get funding from studios for his projects and the…
- S5/10
Sierbahnn
10/24/2026
This is far more fantastical than its original. The fishes in this behave a lot more like the graboids in Tremors where they just seem to be stacking traits on top of each other as the movie needs them to. The idea of having winged piranha is terrifying enough but to have them be able to handle both fresh and salt water, most poisons and be able to breathe air so that they can ambush people long after they've been fi…
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