JAWS WEEK: A Tribute to the Scare of ’75
This piece was originally published June 15th, 2009
The mere mention still brings me back to the days of 1975 when it was the scariest film of the year.
The film was the first true summer blockbuster, and a cultural giant of a movie about giant of a shark that radically changed and forever crushed our innocent view of a happy day at the beach.
As a kid I grew up by a beach and spent much of my outdoor time swimming in its water and goofing around on the sand. It was the days of carefree (and legal!) bonfires, diggin' up cool "stuff" and consistently being amazed at the hundreds of primitive monster-like horseshoe crabs that would wash ashore each year.
Little did I know that the most amazing of all monsters of the sea was soon to be unleashed upon us all.
