Directed by:
Joe DanteScreenplay:
John SaylesCinematography:
Jamie AndersonComposer:
Pino DonaggioCast:
Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Belinda Balaski, Bruce Gordon, Barry Brown, Paul Bartel (more)Plots(1)
While searching for missing teenagers, novice skip tracer Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) and local town boozer Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman) stumble upon a top-secret Army laboratory conducting genetic research on piranha fish for the purpose of developing biological warfare. When the deadly eating machines are accidently released from the compound, they are soon headed downstream and consuming everything, and anything, in their path. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Bradford Dillman
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Compulsion (1959)
Heather Menzies-Urich
Canada
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Hawaii (1966)
Kevin McCarthy
USA
Best movies:
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Keenan Wynn
USA
Best movies:
Dick Miller
USA
Best movies:
The Terminator (1984)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
V: The Final Battle (1984) (series)
Barbara Steele
UK
Best movies:
8½ (1963)
Young Törless (1966)
For Love and Gold (1966)
Belinda Balaski
USA
Best movies:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Black Eye (1974)
Gremlins (1984)
Bruce Gordon
USA
Best movies:
The Naked City (1948)
The Street with No Name (1948)
Hello Down There (1969)
Barry Brown
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Bad Company (1972)
Daisy Miller (1974)
Paul Bartel
USA
Best movies:
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Basquiat (1996)
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
John Sayles
USA
Best movies:
Matewan (1987)
Passion Fish (1992)
Gridlock'd (1997)
Joe Dante
USA
Best movies:
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Oscar (1991)
Eric Braeden
German Empire
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Morituri (1965)
Melody Thomas Scott
USA
Best movies:
The Beguiled (1971)
Marnie (1964)
Le Dernier des géants (1976)
Richard Deacon
USA
Best movies:
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Guich Koock
USA
Best movies:
North Dallas Forty (1979)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Texas Justice (1995) (TV movie)
Jack Pauleson
Best movies:
Piranha (1978)