Reviews

"Eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest", he says.

After some initial, tragic politics that see more deaths than necessary, Brody teams up with local fisherman Quint (Robert Shaw) and shark expert Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) to catch and kill the beast.

After suspicions of a shark attack at the local beach, he has to choose between staying true to his morals and guaranteeing safety or keeping the locals, who need the beach tourism to keep their heads above water, happy.

In this way, Jaws not only paved the way for horror movies in the future - without even being a horror movie - but it opened up new possibilities for the film making world in general.

In 1975 Spielberg became a household name with his exciting thriller featuring a huge shark that scared the bejesus out of movie goers.

Jaws is a movie with a case of what you don't see can scare you, and horror movies have been trying to accomplish what Jaws did ever since ( failing miserably).

Indeed, the shark is a character in itself, albeit one of the more unorthodox film villains, but it has a marvellous presence that is at least on a par with other film villains.

A movie that not only remains one of my favorite horror movies, but was the movie that made me believe as a small child that I have no business whatsoever going into the ocean!

Anyone who says they're a movie fan, movie buff, movie critic, etc, has to see this one.

When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that's been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity's waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th o...