Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Killer Fish : Deadly Treasure of the Piranha (1979)




Released December 7th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Brazil.
The story : Four jewel thieves stage a dangerous heist to capture a large amount of diamonds and emeralds.
They get the gems and then hide them underwater for safe keeping.
When they get back to the boss they decide to wait a couple months and lay low to make sure they get away with it.
But two of the thieves get greedy and don't want  , believing if they wait it out while on a trip they will lose their cut.
So together the two go to where the gems are hidden. One of the guys goes into the water but gets attacked by something while down there and doesn't make it back up.
The one that survived believes the other two thieves staged a plan to kill them off but that couldn't be further from the truth.
So the surviving thief takes a different thief along with him in another effort to get the gems.
Once again , the guy who goes under doesn't make it back.
Only this time around , the other two thieves are there to witness this and come to realize their boss booby trapped the area with some of his pet piranha.
Stars Lee Majors , Karen Black , Frank Pesce , Charles Guardino , Anthony Steffen , James Franciscus , Dan Pastorini , Margaux Hemingway , Roy Brocksmith , Marisa Berenson , Gary Collins
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Rated PG
THRILLER/MYSTERY

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