Rating of
3.5/4
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
gideon43 - wrote on 05/20/10
Without question, one of the most important films in history, Jaws is a watershed event establishing itself as the first "summer blockbuster", defining the career of Steven Spielberg and becoming the first movie ever to go on "wide release" across America. All of this attributes to the massive legend of Jaws the movie but the main underlying fact behind its massive success is that it is absolutely bloody terrifying.
What a number of so-called Horror directors fail to realise is that however unlikely the scenario, a good chiller has to make you afraid of something. Jaws made you afraid to go in the water and to an highly impressionable 10yr old holidaying on the Isle Of Wight, the sea suddenly became the most terrifying place in the world and although I'm no marine biologist, I don`t think many great white sharks are spotted off the coast of Shanklin.
