James Cameron: Ranking His Films From Worst To Best

9. Piranha 2: The Spawning

They say that when you're the first, you're the worst, and that's more than true of Cameron's cinematic debut, Piranha 2: The Spawning.

The very first Hollywood film Cameron ever worked on, and it definitely shows. It's not a bad film by any means - none of the films on this list are well and truly bad - but watching this movie is like reading the first published work of a brand new author. While you can clearly see the parts that make the creator behind the work great, they're left unpolished by a lack of experience and mired in other issues that generally hold it back.

While not the most complex film out there - and not even that scary in terms of suspense and tension - it doesn't really need to be. Its effects still hold up for the most part, the characters are defined just enough to root for them to get out of this ludicrous situation intact, and if you aren't scared of piranhas with wings on a purely instinctive level, then congrats, you are a stronger person than I.