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Piranha (1978) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joe Dante

Written By:
Richard Robinson
John Sayles

Actors:
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 (as Melody Thomas)
Bruce Gordon ..... Colonel Waxman
Barry Brown ..... Trooper
Paul Bartel ..... Mr. Dumont
Shannon Collins ..... Suzie Grogan
Shawn Nelson ..... Whitney
Richard Deacon ..... Earl Lyon
Janie Squire ..... Barbara Randolph

Synopsis:

Lost River Lake was a thriving resort - until they discovered... Man has meddled with mother nature and the result is not only deadly... it's voracious! With a clever screenplay by John Sayles from a story by Richard Robinson, director Joe Dante creates an eerie and devilishly fun tale of mutant piranhas terrorizing a local swimming hole. On an inviting, tranquil evening, two venturesome teenagers take a moonlit skinny-dip in the inviting waters of Lost River Lake... little did they know they would quickly become fish food for a hungry school of man-eating piranha!Their deaths prompt an investigation that reveals a governmental cover-up of a top secret experiment called Operation Razorteeth. And it only gets worse. These insatiable, gilled monsters are heading downstream where a newly opened summer resort will give them a smorgasbord of tasty vacationers, unless a brave outdoorsman (Bradford Dillman) and a sharp, beautiful investigator (Heather Menzies) can stop their deadly spawn... for good.

A young couple stumble across an abandoned US Army test site on a mountain, in which is a huge pool. Thinking it's an ordinary swimming pool, they jump in. But this pool is home to the piranha, and the couple are eaten alive. A young woman P.I. is hired by the father of one of the missing kids to find them, and she meets up with an alcoholic outdoorsman who lives on the mountain. The two of them find the test site and drain the pool to see what's in it. As they do they are accosted by Dr. Hoak - the sole resident of the test site - who informs them that the inhabitants of the pool were the products of a gene-splicing experiment called 'Operation Razorteeth', designed to produce a mutant strain of piranha fish for deployment in the Vietnam War against the NVA. The fish could live in cold water and breed at a high rate. Realizing that a children's summer camp and the Lost River Lake Resort downriver are in the piranhas' path, they set out to try to stop it. The piranha are well ahead of them, and they kill several people on their way downstream. When they try to warn the camp director and resort owner of the danger, they are arrested. Thanks to the woman's ingenuity they escape custody and race down to the camp in a state police car to warn them. But the piranha have already struck - and there are others who want to keep the danger of the piranha a secret...

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 21 July, 2025.