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Piranha (1978)

★ 6.0 · 733 ratings on TMDB

A hideous death lurked unseen in the river...

Piranha poster★ 6.0

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

DirectorJoe Dante
CastBarbara Steele, Barry Brown, Belinda Balaski, Bradford Dillman, Bruce Gordon, Dick Miller
GenresHorror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Piranha keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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