In 1978 Roger Corman Gave a budding director Joe Dante an opportunity to make a feature film. The Premise: Genetically enhanced Piranha were unwittingly unleashed into a river in rural Texas to catastrophic consequences. The film caught the ire of Universal Studios but more importantly Caught the eye of Stephen Spielberg. On August 3rd, 1978 Joe Dante's Piranha was released proving that tinkering with nature can come back to bite you in the ass