Tag: Piranha II: The Spawning
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Without This Horror B-Movie, We Might Not Have James Cameron’s ‘Terminator’
Given the pioneering and lasting impact James Cameron has had on cinema, it may be easy to forget that he emerged from very humble beginnings as a filmmaker. But everyone has to start somewhere, and long before the visionary Canadian became a household name with two Terminator films, Titanic, and Avatar, he ground out a…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Talked James Cameron Into Making Him the Terminator
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been almost forty years since James Cameron changed movies forever with the release of The Terminator in 1984. At just 30 years old, this was Cameron’s breakthrough, with his only other feature film being the low-budget Piranha II: The Spawning in 1981. His story about a cyborg sent from…