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Piranha II: The Spawning1982

Name: Piranha II: The Spawning
Genre: Monster & Creature, Sci-Fi Horror, Survival
Released: 1982-07-13
Rating: 3.5

“It started as a vacation...”

Directed by James Cameron

3.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 3.8Rotten Tomatoes 4%Metacritic 15TMDB 4.3

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Year

1982

Runtime

94 min

Box Office

Budget

$145,786

🏆 1 nomination

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Sun, surf, and screams collide at a Caribbean resort when vacationers start turning up dead in the water. A diving instructor teams up with her ex-husband — the local police chief — and a mysterious biochemist to uncover the source of the carnage lurking beneath the waves. What they find in the depths of a sunken freighter is far more engineered and terrifying than any ordinary predator. This gleefully unhinged creature feature delivers aquatic mayhem with shameless B-movie energy.

Content: Graphic Animal Attack Violence, Gore, Jump Scares