This Roger Corman classic is an entertaining movie to watch.
Government sponsored program to breed piranhas that can survive cold water to be used against the North Vietnamese was doing fine in an isolated lab up in the mountains until one girl throws her boyfriend into the pond that's infested with these things. Another girl comes along looking for them, and guess what ? She drains the pond looking for their dead bodies, but in the process unleashing the piranhas into the river stream down below.
The mayhem that follows is pretty believable, and there's lot of entertaining scenes that follows. Acting is good, story is good, it's a good sci-fi movie classic that's still entertaining after 30 years.
It's a classic that recent "Piranha 3D" (2010) is almost a verbatim copy of this story, substituting the government lab with a mesozoic excavation ground, and kids camp with college spring break.
This is a quality movie with no cheese, and is recommended for viewing.
Government sponsored program to breed piranhas that can survive cold water to be used against the North Vietnamese was doing fine in an isolated lab up in the mountains until one girl throws her boyfriend into the pond that's infested with these things. Another girl comes along looking for them, and guess what ? She drains the pond looking for their dead bodies, but in the process unleashing the piranhas into the river stream down below.
The mayhem that follows is pretty believable, and there's lot of entertaining scenes that follows. Acting is good, story is good, it's a good sci-fi movie classic that's still entertaining after 30 years.
It's a classic that recent "Piranha 3D" (2010) is almost a verbatim copy of this story, substituting the government lab with a mesozoic excavation ground, and kids camp with college spring break.
This is a quality movie with no cheese, and is recommended for viewing.