Piranha II: The Spawning

Piranha II: The Spawning

It started as a vacation...

R 1982 · 94 min · ★ 4.3 · Horror

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.

Directed by James Cameron · Written by James Cameron

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