Piranha
A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$600 000
Revenue
$6 000 000
Director
Actors
Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Belinda Balaski, Melody Thomas Scott, Bruce Gordon, Barry Brown
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jon Davison, Roger Corman, Jeff Schechtman
Operator
Jamie Anderson
Composer
Pino Donaggio
Artist
Adam Beckett, Tim Doughten
Audition
Susan Arnold
Editing
Short description
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
What's left behind the scenes
- Rubber figures on sticks were used to create the image of the piranhas.
- Maggie (Heather Menzies) is playing the video game "Jaws".
- Roger Corman persistently demanded more bloody scenes, and the financial and technical capabilities for using piranha models were quite limited.
- Filming took 30 days.
- Heather Menzies was a Playboy magazine model.
- Peter Fonda turned down the role of Paul Grogan.
- A 17-year-old Rob Bottin worked on the fish models at that time.
- Steven Spielberg was going to sue the filmmakers for plagiarism, but after watching the film, he abandoned the idea and then included Joe Dante among his protégés.
- Despite being a hit for New World Pictures, the film was shot under extremely difficult conditions, ranging from most of the actors being replaced at the last minute to film defects.
- Despite being a hit for New World Pictures, the film was shot in extremely difficult conditions, ranging from most of the actors being replaced at the last minute to film stock defects.
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