Piraña II: los vampiros del mar

Everybody has to start out somewhere, but you won't believe this film is directed by Cameron. Pathetic, amateurish, stupid, cheap, terribly boring. The scene of the piranhas attacking the resort is like the cheapest Ed Wood work, but unfortunately not as funny. But I know what the truth is. After this movie, the director of this monstrosity was abducted by aliens and replaced by a human with the appearance of Cameron. There’s no other possible explanation. (25.04.2003)

To write a "proper B-movie/Cameron can do it" review for this film would be hideous bias. Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish. Proper rubbish. (05.11.2009)

No, no es tanta mierda que los usuarios aquí intentan hacer de ella. Piraña II: los vampiros del mar es una película que se encontró en un infierno creativo total y estuvo indeleblemente marcada por la lucha entre el productor Assonitis y los creadores libremente contratados Miller Drake y especialmente James Cameron, bajo cuyo nombre al final salió la película, pero el resultado en general es comparable a mucha basura de terror italiana de los años 80, que no tenía absolutamente ninguna lógica, pero la película en sí proporcionaba mucha diversión, acción y lindos efectos especiales prácticos. Las elecciones creativas aquí son muy extrañas, y algunas de las líneas secundarias de los personajes podrían eliminarse por completo, pero, a fin de cuentas, sigue siendo divertida. ¿Y en qué otra obra podemos ver pirañas volando por los aires? En la filmografía de James Cameron, puede ser una de las segundas partes menos memorables, pero los amantes de las películas bodrio definitivamente dirán que no está mal. (19.11.2022)

Good old Cameron, you’d like to say, but honestly – I think I quite believe the traumatic stories from the shoot, because the way Assonitis treated him is strikingly reminiscent of the attitudes of other Italian producers at the time (see Dino De Laurentiis, for example) towards cheap labor, whose only purpose for them was to secure financing from American studios. Cameron is reportedly only behind the morgue scene and the funny helicopter explosion (during which he even accidentally drowned the camera). He is also said to be responsible for the design of the piranha, and out of frustration he also took on the production design, as he had found out during pre-production that no one was doing anything there, so he at least started scouting locations and hiring local guides. I find it endearing that despite originally wanting to erase his name from the film entirely, he eventually embraced it years later, even taking the liberty of making his own re-cut (which is not hard to come by) and he has no problem looking back on it. The film itself is pure garbage complete with virtually every ingredient of guilty fun – a buffet of practices from more famous films, boobs, obscene performances, boobs, completely unnecessary exposition by a bunch of poorly acted characters who just disappear somewhere during the course of the film and don't reappear, boobs, terrible special effects, blood, and boobs. Too bad for the traditional Achilles heel of beach genre flicks where they so often progress to underwater scenes, which unfortunately by their very nature are slow and dilute the rhythm of the film. Which, to be fair, also happens in far more deserving works. (08.10.2022)

When you watch Piranha II: The Spawning you have to want to watch a film that doesn't take itself seriously, that isn't a big spectacle, but is simply a small B-movie that impresses mainly with underwater scenes that are well shot. And also pleasant, sexy nudity, where I was captivated by beautiful, natural women who were not yet burdened by plastic surgery. I’ve been into that in recent times. (20.12.2018)