I am sure we have all at least heard of the classic movie, Jaws (1975), and since it is a monster movie and a horror film, I thought it would be cool to examine the horror aspects of the movie, especially since we are reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
The most interesting detail about the movie is that the audience does not actually see the monster until the end of the movie, and so the rest of the movie shows the deaths committed by the shark without actually having it on-screen. This greatly builds up to the climax, and leaves it to the viewer's imagination to depict what the monster looks like and how big it is.
I think this memorable scene of one of the shark's attacks shows this detail the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW23RsUTb2Y
I believe it is this that makes Jaws a classic horror movie and Steven Spielberg a distinguished director. Many horror movies will display the antagonist from the very beginning, but I think that hiding the monster makes it much more mysterious, in addition to also making it scarier.
One of the best! ~ Mrs. Kopp
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