Spielberg's masterful horror film provokes the senses and is still effective 40 years later.

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2015)

The reason we're so damn scared of sharks lurking in the water is because of one man: Steven Spielberg. His most iconic film revolves around a killer shark terrorizing a local town in California. With classic music and the unaware presence and location of the mighty beast, Spielberg has truly crafted a terrorizing film. "Jaws" is not only a classic film, it's the begging of a major fear in nature. Sharks are deadly creatures, there's no doubt, but the initial fear of these majestic creatures started once the "dun dun dun" music and the mysterious camera view from the sharks perspective hit the screen in the 70's. Every horror filmmaker should learn from this film. Instead of pouring boodles of blood constantly and showing gratuitous guts and bodies being mutilated (which is pretty much all you get in horror film,s these days), Stevey makes your mind scared, and it's his subtlety that messes you with and makes you jump from your couch. We only see Jaws for about five minutes on screen. Yet he scares us throughout. We don't know what the heck we're dealing with, that's why we get scared. We don't know where he is in the water or who he will strike next. The direction that leads us into fear of the unknown is why this is a classic. Steven Spielberg made his legendary work likable due to not only his masterful use of horror, but his cutting edge visual effects. Once we do see Jaws, it's a sight to be reckoned with. Nowadays we're so use to magnificent special effects that this would seem like nothing. But from a 1975 perspective, this is mind- blowing. Steven Spielberg's classic tale of horror and the relationship between man and nature is a film you really must see to call yourself a true movie fanatic.