/uRUSWTYMYo9fHRkUjcpD0yPvxzV.jpg

Piranha (1978)

A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...

Genre : Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction

Runtime : 1H 34M

Director : Joe Dante
Writer : John Sayles

Synopsis

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

Actors

Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman
Paul Grogan
Heather Menzies
Heather Menzies
Maggie McKeown
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
Dr. Robert Hoak
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Jack
Dick Miller
Dick Miller
Buck Gardner
Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele
Dr. Mengers
Belinda Balaski
Belinda Balaski
Betsy
Melody Thomas Scott
Melody Thomas Scott
Laura Dickinson
Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon
Colonel Waxman
Barry Brown
Barry Brown
Trooper
Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel
Mr. Dumont
Shannon Collins
Shannon Collins
Suzie Grogan
Shawn Nelson
Shawn Nelson
Whitney
Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon
Earl Lyon
Janie Squire
Janie Squire
Barbara Randolph
Roger Richman
Roger Richman
David
Bill Smillie
Bill Smillie
Jailer
Guich Koock
Guich Koock
TV Pitchman
Jack Pauleson
Jack Pauleson
Boy in Canoe
Eric Henshaw
Eric Henshaw
Father in Canoe
Robert Vinson
Robert Vinson
Soldier
Virginia Dunnam
Virginia Dunnam
Girl
Diamond Farnsworth
Diamond Farnsworth
Water-skier (as Hill Farnsworth)
Bruce Paul Barbour
Bruce Paul Barbour
Man in Boat (as Bruce Barbour)
Robyn Ray
Robyn Ray
Screaming Woman
Mike Sullivan
Mike Sullivan
Dam Guard
Jack Cardwell
Jack Cardwell
Brandy
Sally Bondi
Sally Bondi
Swimming Deb (uncredited)
Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden
Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
Joe Dante
Joe Dante
Scuba Diver #2 (uncredited)
Amy Holden Jones
Amy Holden Jones
Hertz Clerk (uncredited)
Andrew G. La Marca
Andrew G. La Marca
Scuba Diver #1 (uncredited)
John Sayles
John Sayles
Army Sentry (uncredited)
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett
Scuba Diver (uncredited)

Crews

Joe Dante
Joe Dante
Director
John Sayles
John Sayles
Screenplay
Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Executive Producer
Jon Davison
Jon Davison
Producer
Pino Donaggio
Pino Donaggio
Original Music Composer
Joe Dante
Joe Dante
Editor
Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt
Editor
Rob Bottin
Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects
Chris Walas
Chris Walas
Visual Effects
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett
Visual Effects
John Sayles
John Sayles
Story
Jeff Schechtman
Jeff Schechtman
Executive Producer
Hisako Tsukuba
Hisako Tsukuba
Co-Producer
Jamie Anderson
Jamie Anderson
Director of Photography
Susan Arnold
Susan Arnold
Casting
Bill Mellin
Bill Mellin
Art Direction
Kerry Mellin
Kerry Mellin
Art Direction
Jeff Ayers
Jeff Ayers
Set Decoration
Vincent Prentice
Vincent Prentice
Makeup Effects
Richard Robinson
Richard Robinson
Story

Trailers and other movies

Piranha (1978) trailer
Jon Davison on PIRANHA
Piranha ≣ 1978 ≣ Trailer

Posters and backgrounds

/sc8rpdye0l0r3NonwVDPl4plD7E.jpg
/zbvsVy0IkIEJ0mg95MstISAQ5T3.jpg
/uRUSWTYMYo9fHRkUjcpD0yPvxzV.jpg
/52d13jkFw7hpunU8WK6AmJy9jTF.jpg
/foW9pFj3edI8xMjdA5o3r3SpqrR.jpg
/8732hu2rMuwE8sp4Hs597lNAdXB.jpg
/u3qm30MknqLo6JN6tiDWOIFyEI2.jpg
/3BmVLNRQfCV1MTfgjXKiA34Fqky.jpg
/ibYFORLruMzF5YAYiQs3bLACYUY.jpg
/z3icabPkWBcgBOUo3fzDveGWACf.jpg
/8qD3VjXUTOCvJFaflvkaUUn4dl0.jpg
/wA3iLKwlI2W4Rwiol0ZaJfSGS4T.jpg
/zXCKHSdxc3NPfDKfm0g2Gm2WjTC.jpg

Similar

Open Grave
A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Behind the News
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
$1000 a Minute
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Rosewater
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Long Gone
Reporter Chris (Drew Horsley) and junior photographer Amanda (Hannah Walker) venture to the countryside in search of the truth surrounding the disappearance of Heather Langford and two police officers involved in the case.
Parades
Faced with the injustices of this world, Margot has lost all hope in the future. Giving up on politics, she decides to entrust her fate to the Dardu, a legendary carp that supposedly predicts the future. But the lake's rules have changed: fishing is now forbidden.
Three Worlds
Three Worlds is a psychological genre-bending drama that explores the three lives, or 'worlds,' of a man who undergoes an experiment that triggers haunting memories and alternate life memories.
America Town
Set in the 1980s in Gunsan, a US military camptown, 15-year-old Sangguk falls in love with a prostitute and has his first sexual experience. He witnesses the wounds and struggles of sex workers in this US military camp town.
Wilde Miezen - Katzen allein unterwegs
The Costello Case
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
The Cobra Strikes
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Escopofobia
Ekkólapsi
The Betta Brawling Championship
Luis Enrique, the most famous betta fish fighter in the world, holds a betta fish fighting tournament in Puerto Rico.
Great White
A sea plane is destroyed in a freak accident, five people find themselves drifting on a raft. At the mercy of the tide and with no hope of rescue, the helpless situation takes a horrifying turn when they are terrorized by a ravenous great white.
Arken
Lars is a 10 year old boy who builds a mini ark and sends it down the river.
Wolves of the Rail
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.
Wellspring
Sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish dreams from reality. What is a dream? Oblivion or flight? Dream collaboration with a love that no choice could suddenly seize every Love is invisibly present in everything:. In burning candles, trembling petals, or the whisper of the wind trembling wings of a butterfly - Failure to nowhere, drop into eternity, infinity soaring - Plast problems and worries of everyday savings, suffering, expectations. But then: dive in yourself, in its essence, in its original And the gap:. dizziness, drop, hover, dive into the freshness of dew, moisture, spring - Finally: enlightenment, cleansing , clarity of thought, the joy of existence. And then, the flight again, merger and dissolution of eternity.
River Divides, Work Connects
A bridge over River Sava is being built. The opening ceremony is a festive occasion.
Adventure in Manhattan
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.

Recommend

Piranha II: The Spawning
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.
Piranha 3DD
After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.
The Burning
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.
Piranha 3D
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.
Piranha
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?
The Howling
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
House
Roger Cobb is an author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware that the house resents his presence.
Jaws 2
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Jaws 3-D
This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a guest at Sea World. What follows is the shark wreaking havoc on the visitors in the park.
Jaws: The Revenge
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
Carrie
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Ginger Snaps
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Fright Night
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.
The 'Burbs
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Children of the Corn
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Dawn of the Dead
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
The Omen
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
The Fog
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Halloween
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Day of the Dead
Trapped in a missile silo, a small team of scientists, civilians, and trigger-happy soldiers battle desperately to ensure the survival of the human race. However, the tension inside the base is reaching a breaking point, and the zombies are gathering outside.