Roger Corman’s 1978 original is re-made in this made-for-television movie. When some secretly mutated piranhas are accidentally released, it becomes a race against time to stop them before they wipe out local vacationers. William Katt and Alexandria Paul star as the unlikely duo who team up to stop the deadly flesh-eating fish as they head for a summer camp site on a resort lake., They’re swimming up a not-so-lazy river and they’re as hungry as ever in this remake of the John Sayles-scripted 1978 cult hit. Alexandra Paul, William Katt. J.R.: Monte Markham. Dr. Leticia Baines: Darleen Carr. Susie Grogan: Mila Kuniss. Laura: Soleil Moon Frye. Jimmy: Drancy Jackson. Directed by Scott Levy., Technologically advanced remake of Roger Corman’s 1978 cult horror sci-fi original. A school of genetically altered, flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into the wild, and must be stopped before they can spawn and threaten the unsuspecting residents of Lost River Lake.