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Podcast: Around the World in 80s Movies
Episode: Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) | James Cameron
Description: The story for Piranha II doesn't connect to Piranha save for a reference to fish used as bioweapons for a top-secret U.S. Army experiment. Those experiments continued into cross-breeding piranhas with grunions and flying fish to make them dangerous in both air and water. A ship has sunk and a container of their eggs breaks open in the area near Club Elysium, a posh Jamaican resort, on the verge of their annual Fish Fry Beach Festival, when the grunions hatch and walk upon the shore.
That's where Anne (Tricia O'Neil), a marine biologist, works as a scuba instructor. Anne's s...