Jaws

This 4th of July, the fireworks will have teeth at a special holiday “screaming” of the greatest summer fright flick of all-time, swimming back onto the big screen at The Loft Cinema, in a bloody good 4K remastered edition! Everybody out of the water!  

When a giant, bloodthirsty great white shark starts chowing down on the summer tourists off Amity Island during 4th of July weekend, it’s up to local police chief Martin Brody to hunt down the deadly underwater menace and send it packing to that great fish fry in the sky. Steven Spielberg’s expertly-crafted rollercoaster ride of a monster movie not only changed our swimming habits (after seeing this movie, who could possibly dip a toe into the ocean without hearing, just for second, those two ominous musical notes?), it also redefined our summer movie-going habits by creating, in one fell swoop, the “summer blockbuster” as we know it today. A true Hollywood classic from a time when fun popcorn entertainment could also be smart, stylish and scary, Jaws has everything you need in a movie: kids in danger, drunken sea shanties, mass panic on the beach and Richard Dreyfus in a cage.  Also starring Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw, whose chilling monologue recounting the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is the stuff of movie legend. (Dir. by Steven Spielberg, 1975, USA, 124 mins., Rated PG)