Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
- fish
- experiment
- summer camp
- river
- animal attack
- us army
- reporter
- piranha
- tent camp
- eugenics
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bradford Dillman
Paul Grogan
Heather Menzies
Maggie McKeown
Kevin McCarthy
Dr. Robert Hoak
Keenan Wynn
Jack
- Dick Miller — Buck Gardner
- Barbara Steele — Dr. Mengers
- Belinda Balaski — Betsy
- Melody Thomas Scott — Laura Dickinson
- Bruce Gordon — Colonel Waxman
- Barry Brown — Trooper
- Paul Bartel — Mr. Dumont
- Shannon Collins — Suzie Grogan
- Shawn Nelson — Whitney
- Richard Deacon — Earl Lyon
- Janie Squire — Barbara Randolph
- Directed
- Joe Dante
- Written
- Richard Robinson, John Sayles
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 776 ratings
- Studio
- New World Pictures, Chako Film Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
