Plot
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?
Cast
as Paul Grogan
as Maggie McNamara
as J.R. Randolph
as Dr. Leticia Baines
as Susie Grogan
as Laura
as Gina Green
as Governor
as Jimmy
as Whitney
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Reviews
It's tough to commend any actual parts of the '95 remake of Piranha, but it's actually quite fun to group watch purely because it's so dated. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
**_Inferior imitation of the 1978 original_** Genetically-enhanced piranha are accidentally released into a river system in the wilderness north of Los Angeles, which threaten kids & counselors at a Summer Camp and vacationers at a lake resort. A private investigator (Alexandra Paul) and a lonely environmentalist (William Katt) team-up to save the swimmers. "Piranha" (1995) is virtually a s…
Good watch, might watch again, and can recommend for horror / thriller fans. This is almost beat for beat the 1978 movie with some unecessary nudity and explosions thrown in, and just a little gore as the original was surprisingly absent of it. I do feel like they casted better this time around, and the effects are decent enough that they showed off the fish some this time and it wasn't ter…