“Jaws” Review


Jaws: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary. When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

The pinnacle of Steven Spielberg’s short (at the time) directing career, has he done anything since then that’s as raw as this? Every year I pick a horror franchise to check out (or in this case sorta re-check) and this year, we’re watching JAWS, all four (five?) of them. The first one is the absolute best of the lot, with the clear horror tropes: an unseen and unstoppable monster that first kills a teenager that’s getting naked in the ocean, and seems to have a personal vendetta on an entire town of idiots. It’s a well shot and well written movie that’s been often imitated but never truly surpassed.

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