Watch the skies (and credits) for all this JAWS people and easter eggs in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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It might not have been JAWS that set Shark Week off. The reasons for our fascination with them could go back as far as World War II.
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Cruel Jaws, also known as The Beast, is a 1995 direct-to-video Italian horror thriller film shot in Florida including the Theater of the Sea. The film stars Richard Dew and David Luther and was directed by Bruno Mattei (under the name of William Snyder). It was released on VHS and DVD in relative obscurity, mostly outside of the United States. While marketed in many areas as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws, it actually doesn't have any connections to the Jaws franchise.
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Much the same as November 5th, 1955 was a red letter day in the world of science (at least according to Dr Emmett Brown of Hill Valley, California), June 20th, 1975 was almost certainly the day cinema changed forever. Prior to this date we’d had a whole slew of really great movies - the 70s was full of them - but until that day in late June, we’d never truly understood the meaning of a blockbuster.
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We’re not just talking about ‘They don’t make ‘em like that anymore’ here, we’re really looking at what would stop JAWS getting made in the first place, and if it did manage to get the green light, what constraints would be put on its production.
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Black December refers to at least nine shark attacks on humans causing six deaths that occurred along the coast of Natal Province in the Union of South Africa, from December 18, 1957 to April 5, 1958
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It’s fine to enjoy a schlocky film, a B picture or a ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ movie, you don’t have to only watch classics - life would be very boring indeed if we dismissed anything that wasn’t a 5 Star winner. For every ‘Star Wars’ there’s a ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ and for every JAWS there’s a…well, frankly, take your pick.
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