A lot of Jaws rip-offs flooded cinemas during the late ’70s and earlier ’80s but Joe Dante’s aquatic gem stands as one of the best, in fact, it was so good that when Universal wanted to sue Corman’s studio it was Steven Spielberg who convinced them not to. If that doesn’t equal a good recommendation…
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Jaws of Satan (1982) – Review
When it comes to horror films the “Nature Attacks” subgenre is rife with both good and bad examples, from Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws to Irwin Allen’s hilariously bad The Swarm, but in 1982 director Bob Claver helmed a little gem called Jaws of Satan, where druids and curses were brought into the mix to add…
Alligator (1980) – Review
The urban legends surrounding the idea of alligators living in the sewer date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s, which makes it rather surprising that it took until 1980 for such an ideal subject matter to make its way into a horror movie. We got giant ants in the sewers back in 1954…
Snowbeast (1977) – Review
The amount of films that attempted to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws is quite staggering, unfortunately, the number of them that turned out to be bad is quite staggering as well. But as many of these low-budget shark films hoped to get some of that sweet Jaw’s money there were…
Grizzly (1976) – Review
Following the success of Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws, the cinema was quickly flooded with killer shark movies but one of the most blatant rip-offs didn’t involve a shark or even take place in the water as this movie dealt with “18 feet of gut-wrenching, man-eating terror!” and by that I mean William Girdler’s Grizzly, a…