Jaws is a thrilling 1975 film directed by Steven Spielberg about a man-eating great white shark that terrorizes a New England beach town during the peak summer season. The local police chief, a marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter team up to hunt and kill the shark.
It built the modern blockbuster on a horror engine — a killer you barely see, a Williams pulse, and a beach turned slaughterhouse. Terror went wide-release and never left.