piranha – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) | James Cameron

July 3, 2020July 2, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

The story for Piranha II doesn’t connect to Piranha save for a reference to fish used as bioweapons for a top-secret U.S. Army experiment. Those experiments continued into cross-breeding piranhas with grunions and flying fish to make them dangerous in both air and water. A ship has sunk and a container of their eggs breaks […]

Piranha (1978) | Joe Dante

June 26, 2020June 25, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Bradford Dillman stars as Paul Grogan, a reclusive alcoholic living in a cabin out in the woods in an undisclosed part of the United States. He’s visited by a skiptracer named Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies), who is out to find a couple of backpackers who have disappeared without a trace. Their search leads them to […]