Simply Terrifying!

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2000)

This movie does what films nowdays are lacking. Jaws uses the fear of what we can't see to petrify us to death! Of course we know it's a shark; that awful dorsal fin comes out of the water every time the music picks up. The early scenes in the movie, released in 1975, have a residue from the sixties with the hippy group around the camp fire and the girl who goes skinny-dipping (the shark's first meal). Again, we don't even see the shark even though we know it is a shark eating her. The real horror is when Brody's buudy on the boat gets his midsection chompped by the shark as he slides down boat. Roy Scheider is excellent in this movie - his strong character fits his part.