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13/07/1982 Horror 1h 34m
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It started as a vacation...

Overview

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.

  1. James Cameron

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tricia O'Neil

    Anne Kimbrough

  2. Steve Marachuk

    Tyler Sherman

  3. Lance Henriksen

    Police Chief Steve Kimbrough

  4. Ricky Paull Goldin

    Chris Kimbrough

  5. Ted Richert

    Raoul, Hotel Manager

  6. Leslie Graves

    Allison Dumont

  7. Carole Davis

    Jai

  8. Connie Lynn Hadden

    Loretta

  9. Arnie Ross

    Mal the Cook

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Reviews

A review by r96sk
Written by r96sk on 2025-02-23
'Piranha II: The Spawning' is woeful. You'd expect more with James Cameron at the helm, but everyone has to start somewhere; he followed up with 'The Terminator' and 'Aliens' so he did alright! This, his feature directorial debut, is proper rubbish though.

It's seemingly less to do with Cameron anyway in fairness, it sounds like producer Ovidio G. Assonitis had his hands all over this; Miller Drake was the original director, who Assonitis evidently fired. I think that speaks for itself. Either way, it's low-quality and I hold no positives.

The editing is all ov...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$145,786.00

Revenue
$0.00

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