Factual error: When they drain the pool at the abandoned army station, Paul tastes the water and claims the water is salty. Piranha are freshwater fish and would not survive in salt water. (00:19:30)
Piranha (1978)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: Joe Dante
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Bradford Dillman, Keenan Wynn, Heather Menzies-Urich
Continuity mistake: The dressing that is on the evil Dr Leticia Baines's forehead keeps changing. When she is first placed on Grogan's raft, the dressing is soaked with blood. In the next few scenes it just has a small patch of blood in the centre. After she swims to rescue the boy from his canoe, she gets on the raft and the dressing is dry. In the next two close-up shots the dressing is wet (with water) and then it is dry again.
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Suggested correction: While the description of the events and the mistake is accurate, it wasn't Dr. Baines that swims out to save the boy. It was Dr. Hoak. You're thinking of the 1995 remake of the film.
Dumont: People eat fish, Grogan. Fish don't eat people.
Trivia: Dick Miller plays the Mayor Buck Gardner, who serves much the same plot purpose as the Mayor Larry Vaughn in the first two JAWS films, in that he insists on keeping the beaches open and dismisses all danger signs. Dick Miller would go on to appear in every single movie ever directed by Joe Dante, right up until Miller's death in 2019.
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