Rotten
Idiotic premise has US government genetic engineering experiments creating a deadly form of grunions (hinted at being used in the Vietnam war).
Variety Staff, Variety
Piranha II: The Spawning
It started as a vacation...
1982 · 1h 34m · R
Horror
Directed by
James Cameron
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Piranha II: The Spawning
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- James Cameron Director
- Tricia O'Neil as Anne Kimbrough
- Steve Marachuk as Tyler Sherman
- Lance Henriksen as Police Chief Steve Kimbrough
- Ricky Paull Goldin as Chris Kimbrough
- Ted Richert as Raoul, Hotel Manager
- Leslie Graves as Allison Dumont
- Carole Davis as Jai
- Connie Lynn Hadden as Loretta
- Arnie Ross as Mal the Cook
- Tracey Berg as Beverly
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
4%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A copy rather than a sequel, this has none of the intelligence, wit or tempo that graced the first swarm of hungry fish.
Time Out
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