adonis98-743-186503 When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal. Joe Dante's Piranha tried to cash in on the big success that 'Jaws' was and even tho it's nowhere near as good as that film it's still ok for a Friday night watch. The perfomances weren't exactly anything special but it was nice to see Dick Miller passing threw a few times (he was the Pawn Shop Clerk from James Cameron's The Terminator which also directed the sequel) and the special effects were just ok although i did liked the little nod to Jaws with the video game. Overall if you enjoyed the remake from 2010 you're going to enjoy the original too, it's not great but it's alright. (6/10)

Kirpianuscus part of a long chain of films about monsters from the same period, it seems far to be special. same story, secrets and ordinary people in middle of dark secrets, same cold danger and a lot of memories about "Jaws". but the virtue of this film is the reasonable and, in few scenes, seductive way , to say the story. the use of suggestion who creates the tension, the inspired music, the simple story and the dramatic moments. a B film who seems be special for the wise way to explore a theme so used. and this fact does it almost a classic film.

Foreverisacastironmess Sadly these days whenever most people will hear the title of Piranha they'll probably automatically think of the obnoxious and tacky "Piranha 3D", a movie that while I did find it fun in a brainless kind of way, it didn't have an ounce of the good old-fashioned charm and character that this flick had going for it. I mean how could anyone ever forget about the original Piranha? It's a classic and one of the best killer animal movies ever made. It's one of the pictures that really captured my imagination in a fun scary way when I was a kid and I still love it now, it's such an easy charming movie to sit through, and if you absolutely have to label it as such, then it's certainly a B-movie that's done tremendously well. I don't personally think it's all that much of a Jaws ripoff. Some people talk as if that's all it is.. Jaws had one big fish, this has many tiny fish that pose a far greater threat, the thing that's most similar to Jaws that I see is just the underwater shots of the piranha closing in on victims from below. Jaws chillingly killed one child, this movie had the gall to make the first bloodbath of its story an attack on a whole bunch of kids at once, and that took some serious "intestinal fortitude" back in 1978 when kids in movies were considered a lot more sacrosanct than they are today. I love the way the good guys actually fail to reach the summer camp in time to save the children, because it goes against what you'd typically expect to happen, and that was different and interesting to me. I find that there's a great sense of menace to the movie as well as a good comic timing, with the scary moments being more shocking because I was just chuckling at something a minute before, and I can take it perfectly serious as a picture and still have fun with it at the same time. I love the music score which gives it a lot of added atmosphere, to me it sounds very similar to the iconic theme from Carrie and it gives me the creeps. They do a good job of just making the water seem spooky and dangerous. I remember being bothered as a kid by how you never really see the piranha all that much at all, but now I think that it works out much better in that more subtle and shadowy way, with the mutant fish as a mostly unseen threat lurking beneath the darkness of the water, and the noise of them feeding is actually a little scarier than they are! I loved that sound, I don't know what they did to make it but it goes together with the underwater photography and the quick shots of the piranha relentlessly ripping at people to sell the effect of them fantastically. Something else I quite enjoy is that it had good characters that are fun to watch, even just the bit parts. I love the overly strict ridiculous blowhard who happens to be the boss of the summer camp and has no sense of humour and takes his job way too seriously, he's such a funny buffoon and is such an ignorant jerk but he does kind of redeem himself in the end, which is something that happens a few times in this movie.. I like Kevin McCarthy's regretful scientist who originally created the genetically engineered piranha, he's manic and energetic and his death while he clumsily tries to rescue a boy is genuinely sad, and nobody ever believes Kevin McCarthy about impending doom until it's too dang late! Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies were great together, they were both very likable and had such a fun cute chemistry that really carries the whole movie. She's very spunky and resourceful and was not at all above her 'feminine wiles' to get them out of tight spots, and while she was no airhead she did kind of cause everything that went wrong in the story in one way or another! And Dillman's character at first is just a good-natured honourable drunk who tags along but he becomes more of the hero the audience expects him to be as it goes on. Most of the film is just their race against time to stop the piranha from reaching the sea, which they ultimately fail to do as Barbara Steele reveals as the movie ends in a hilariously wink-wink moment as she huskily says to the news media in her lovely British accent that "There's nothing left to fear..." But of course it's really to you...the viewer! Everything we've seen has just been mere prelude to a much bigger fishy nightmare to come, and now blood's *really* gonna run and the oceans of the world will run red forever!!! As stupidly over the too as it is, I still find the ending to be more strangely eerie than funny. So to me it's a movie that's both funny and scary whenever it's trying to be either, and it really shows how good the animal attack movies of their glorious 70s heydays could be. Still brilliant fun, it's an easy 10 out of 10 bizarre bipedal peeping fish lizard creatures for me! x

jacobjohntaylor1 This is a great horror film. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 5.9 is underrating this awesome movie. Piranha II the spawning is scarier. But still this one of the scariest movies made before 1981. I give it 9 out of 10. This movie is a must see. The Jaws movie are better. But still this a great movie. This is scarier then The Shinning. And that is not easy to do. But it not scarier then the Jaws movies. Anaconda is also better. But still this a very scary movie. This is scarier then The Omen. I need more lines and I am running out of things to say. 9 out of 10 Great movie great movie great movie. See it.