one of the first movie with graphic scenes

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 1998)

It was one of the first movies with graphic scenes to be released at the time. The first one (in my opinion, was THE EXORCIST) but the only difference at the time was that THE EXOCIST was restricted while Jaws was given general audience. I did not see when it was first released. But a lot of people who went to see it at the time thought it should have been restricted. There was more graphic scenes than THE EXORCIST. Even when I first saw it on tv, it was pretty frightening with the head coming out of the boat. It left me feeling frightened for few nights afterwards.
Nowadays, there are a lot of slasher graphic movies but no story or theme content. The first JAWS movie had story and an issue (about how the mayor of amityville ignored the attack for the sake of seasonal tourism that make the town a profit) . There was also the character content like brody and quint. The sequels had none of it except people being attacked one after the other.(the 1978 sequel)
It's the movie that put Spielberg were he is.