Horror filmmaker B Harrison Smith (The Fields, Camp Dread, Death House, The Special) brings historical context to horror films from the 1930s through the late 1980s and the importance of theatrical and group screenings. “We are losing that experience and these kind of memories today. Seeing horror with a crowd…
Browsing: JAWS
JAWS ***** USA 1975 Dir: Steven Spielberg. 124 mins Streamlined from Peter Benchley’s tackier, bloodier novel, Spielberg’s trend-setting summer blockbuster is more monster movie than revenge-of-nature flick: this shark isn’t avenging anything; it’s just eating the cast because it’s a monster in a monster flick. Said shark is demonized by…