10 Double Movie Features From Hell

There's no downplaying the importance not of Jaws, but of Jaws' success. It's first-ever blockbuster history changed the very nature of how films are approached and marketed, and along with Star Wars aided in pushing forth big summer movies rather than what the first half of the seventies favoured.

Jaws also changed human-shark PR. However many shark hunts the 1916 Jersey Shore attacks on which Jaws was based inspired, they were minor compared to the hate-crimes after the film. Author Peter Benchley spent the better part of his career trying to right that wrong.

Hasn't done much good. “He is obsessed with sharks...He was like, ‘I donate to all these charities, and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.’...He was, like, obsessed," said Stormy Daniels of her encounter with the sitting President.

Jaws also suffered it's own share of imitators, as any successful blockbuster does. But The Asylum was a good thirty years away from mockbusters, so instead the fakes came from foreigners.

Italy's The Last Shark is easily the most entertainingly bad Jaws knockoff (with an AMAZING theme). The multi-language dubbed approach is always awkward, the shark is goofy, and the plot is a lawsuit waiting to (did) happen.

The Meg is The Last Shark's opposite, a film that pretended it had the clout to upstage Jaws, but ultimately ended up a surprisingly dull Jason Statham vehicle with more interest in the Chinese market than teeth.