NAH!!!! Jaws is an original horror movie. Movies don't have to be scare you out of your pants to be a horror movie.

Like, I love you Gerard but wtf?

Horror is - The Grudge, The Ring, etc etc - not Jaws. pfft

Those are completely different horror genres tho!

Josh @ 13/6/2018 0:21

NAH!!!! Jaws is an original horror movie. Movies don't have to be scare you out of your pants to be a horror movie.

And as an added bonus, Jaws scared the shit out of everyone when it came out

People still have an irrational fear of sharks while swimming because of it.

Mercator @ 12/6/2018 23:39

People still have an irrational fear of sharks while swimming because of it.

Anaconda was equally as terrifying as a child, but nobody is running around afraid to go swimming because of giant snakes. Also, nobody would consider Anaconda a horror movie.

Mercator @ 12/6/2018 22:47

Spin @ 12/6/2018 20:45 Curtis @ 12/6/2018 22:27 Spin @ 12/6/2018 23:17 I like Jaws, and I can't stand Horror movies, ergo, Jaws isn't a Horror movie. I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way! You have your definition, I have mine. So all films you dislike are horror movies?

No, it just happens that the circle containing horror movies and the circle containing movies I don't like, overlap a lot on my personal movie venn diagram.

Spin @ 12/6/2018 23:58

Mercator @ 12/6/2018 23:39 People still have an irrational fear of sharks while swimming because of it. Anaconda was equally as terrifying as a child, but nobody is running around afraid to go swimming because of giant snakes. Also, nobody would consider Anaconda a horror movie.

Anaconda (1997)
PG-13 | 1h 29min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Anaconda scares me. It’s a horror film

Spin @ 13/6/2018 2:58

Mercator @ 12/6/2018 23:39 People still have an irrational fear of sharks while swimming because of it. Anaconda was equally as terrifying as a child, but nobody is running around afraid to go swimming because of giant snakes. Also, nobody would consider Anaconda a horror movie.

It’s official, you and some others have a fundamental misunderstanding of what horror movies are

Ahoda @ 13/6/2018 4:44

Anaconda scares me. It’s a horror film

Anaconda was written, directed, marketed, and received as a horror film. It’s a horror film

I also beg to differ because I was afraid of anacondas when I went swimming after I watched it when I was younger

I see horror movies as movies who only fit in the horror category, or where the main goal is to scare. That's why most of them suck. If the only goal is to be scary, it's really hard to achieve and almost never works.

JP, Jaws, Alien don't fit that criteria. They are multi genre movies made to appeal to a wider audience and sell an assload of tickets, Not horror movies.

Josh @ 13/6/2018 5:30

I also beg to differ because I was afraid of anacondas when I went swimming after I watched it when I was younger

If you lived in Florida, this might be legit.

I was more afraid of cottonmouths while swimming when I was a kid, and I'm not afraid of snakes, normally.