All-Time and Terrifying

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2019)

To this day, we get annual shark movies trading on the wares of this all-time classic made when Gerald Ford was President.
We famously don't even see the eyes of Jaws until the film is deep into its second half. But thanks to a combination of a legendary soundtrack, the nuances of human psychology, and a dorsal fin straight out of a dark and watery hell, we're terrified from the onset.
Chucky dolls and Freddy Krueger don't come close to the evocation of horror Spielberg's framing of the real-life great white manages here in a film that stands with The Exorcist and a rare few others as the most horrifying in horror. Essential and then some.