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Watch: Piranha 1978 123movies, Full Movie Online – When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort’s rivers, the guests become their next meal..
Plot: When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort’s rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Ratings:

	5.9/10 Votes: 22,364
	70% | RottenTomatoes
	71/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 503 Popularity: 25.75 | TMDB

Reviews:

**Piranha is bad 70s creature feature gold! It’s so bad it’s great and a fun ride as long as you expect a total cheesefest.**

Piranha is cheesy 70s/80s creature films at their very best! It has everything – evil military generals, obligatory lake celebrations, scientific experimentation gone wrong, horrible dialogue, low-budget effects, and more. It’s clear as you watch the film that Piranha was heavily influenced by Jaws, with the city ignoring the warnings of the dangerous underwater creature, the very similar movie poster, and much more. Steven Spielberg has even named it his favorite Jaws rip-off movie. This low-budget gem was a zeitgeist of creature horror cinema of the decade that didn’t allow bad effects, poor acting, or no money to stop them from making their movies. The remakes in the 2000’s just used this movie as an excuse to show a lot of nudity, and while there is a little nudity in Piranha (1978), it is much briefer than its predecessors. Pirahna (1978) focuses on letting the army of hungry fish gnaw on its helpless victims. This goofy little creature flick launched the career of director Joe Dante, who later collaborated with Steven Spielberg himself to make Gremlins – a real creature masterpiece! Piranha is no Gremlins, but it sure is a fun start to Dante’s creepy creature-filled career.

Decent watch, probably won’t watch again, but can recommend for fans of Jaws or any other version of this movie.

There is a 1995 remake of this movie that I would probably watch instead if I wanted to watch this gain.

Not-trigger warning: There is a surprising LACK of gore in this movie.

This has a decent story to it, but it shares aspects with Jaws, Friday the 13th, other movies of the era. Particularly the “hide the effect” routine that Jaws made famous. The practical effects aren’t very good, which is why the best use of them was to hide the fish whenever possible. In a way, it really works if the threat is massive, unstoppable, and nearly invisible.

The whole “secret government project” angle is a little irritating as this crossed my movie watching with my “otherworldy research”: things like this are presented in movies as an absurd idea when they are reality. Maybe not to this extent, but as the government used to claim Area 51 didn’t exist, that should prove my point.

They cast was fine, I didn’t see any problems, and I didn’t see anything extra-ordinary from them.

This isn’t a bad movie, there are just so many better things to watch, including the re-make, I guess.

I always enjoy a river horror.
I like horror movies that happen along or in rivers. Not that there are many “Shock Waves” and “Empire of the Ants” are the only two that come to mind right now. I do not know why, something about the scenery maybe? All I know, out of all the films that ripped off Jaws, this is one of the better ones and one of the better Roger Corman films. Though I say his best movies did come in the 70’s and 80’s. They started going downhill in the 90’s where he would inexplicably do another Piranha movie that is essentially the same as this and he would make Dead Space which was pretty much a remake of Forbidden World. This one though was trying to capitalize of the success of Jaws and did a good job considering the paltry 600,000 budget.

The story has a couple of kids going into a closed off facility and taking a swim where something in the water takes them out. A woman charged with tracking these two makes her way to the area and gets help from a local as they find the facility and proceed to drain the pool into the river when they find the two teen’s backpacks. Well, they inadvertently release a deadly new type of piranha into the river where they proceed to go on a killing spree as the local and woman do their best to warn everyone of the oncoming danger!

The cast do a good job and the effects are fairly good considering the low budget. It has some good gore in it as well. Joe Dante directed this and he would go on to direct Gremlins while James Cameron would direct its sequel and also go on to bigger things so you have to give it to Corman, he does tend to help people break into the business.

So we get a rather fun Jaws ripoff, so while you are not getting the performances or tension of the superior film, you are getting more kills and more boobies too! I watched this film again for the first time in a long time and was surprised by all the nudity in it. I always thought it was like PG, but it was an R rated film. There is also some good comedy in it as well. Just a fun picture where we get to watch piranha eat people and do their thing! Nothing to take too seriously.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min), 1 hr 46 min (106 min) (TV) (USA)
Budget 660000
Revenue 16000000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Joe Dante
Writer Richard Robinson, John Sayles
Actors Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 IIC, Mitchell BNCR
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm