What is Piranha / Grizzly / Alligator about?

Triple Feature: PIRANHA, 1978, 94 min. Screenwriter John Sayles cleverly riffs on JAWS in this early directorial effort from Joe Dante, in which a school of deadly mutant piranha heads for a sleepy summer community. GRIZZLY, 1976, 91 min. Dir. William Girdler. In this landlocked take on the JAWS tale, a gigantic grizzly begins picking off campers at a national park; it’s up to the park’s chief ranger (Christopher George), a zoologist (Richard Jaeckel) and a veteran helicopter pilot (Andrew Prine) to bag the bear before tourist season is ruined. ALLIGATOR, 1980, 92 min. Dir. Lewis Teague. Twelve years after a baby alligator is flushed down the toilet, it grows to mammoth size in the city sewer system (thanks to a diet of hormonally enhanced animals improperly disposed of by a local research facility). When bodies start popping up, Chicago detective Robert Forster is the first - and only - authority figure to grasp the reality of what is happening.

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What is Piranha / Grizzly / Alligator about?: Triple Feature: PIRANHA, 1978, 94 min. Screenwriter John Sayles cleverly riffs on JAWS in this early directorial effort from Joe Dante, in which a school of deadly mutant piranha heads for a sleepy summer community. GRIZZLY, 1976, 91 min. Dir. William Girdler. In this landlocked take on the JAWS tale, a gigantic grizzly begins picking off campers at a national park; it’s up to the park’s chief ranger (Christopher George), a zoologist (Richard Jaeckel) and a veteran helicopter pilot (Andrew Prine) to bag the bear before tourist season is ruined. ALLIGATOR, 1980, 92 min. Dir. Lewis Teague. Twelve years after a baby alligator is flushed down the toilet, it grows to mammoth size in the city sewer system (thanks to a diet of hormonally enhanced animals improperly disposed of by a local research facility). When bodies start popping up, Chicago detective Robert Forster is the first - and only - authority figure to grasp the reality of what is happening.