Movie review - "Piranha" (1978) **** (re-watching)

 Like this movie the more I watch it. Its competence, the solid structure of Sayles' script, the charm of the rural setting (shot in Texas - it has a lovely atmosphere), the engaging Heather Menzies, the skill of Bradford Dillman, the stock company (Paul Bartel, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller), the fact the film has both a sense of humour and a genuine emotional wallop  a kid sees his father eaten, kids are killed, a really nice counsellor is eaten - the attack on the kid's camp is truly shocking and at the end Dillman is catatonic), the film buff in jokes, the polticial commentary. Even Menzies' stand in breasts are funny.