50 Reasons Why Jaws Might Just Be The Greatest Film of All Time

16. Gave birth to ALIEN

Alien was pretty much sold on the 'Jaws in outer space' pitch.

17. Produced A Timeless Tagline

"Don't Go In The Water!!'

18. Caused a Downturn In The Beach Holiday Trade

Themoviedid for beach holidays what Psycho did for showers.

19. Takes Advice From The Master of Suspense

It's not just the Vertigoshot that is borrowed but the whole 'suspense over surprise' trick that carries on throughout the film is lifted from the rotund master.

20. Made Shark Reading Riveting

Before Jaws who frankly cared about the Great White. Post-Jaws people are glued to the pages of the seemingly man-eating mammal.

Oliver Pfeiffer

Oliver Pfeiffer is a freelance writer who trained at the British Film Institute. He joined OWF in 2007 and now contributes as a Features Writer. Since becoming Obsessed with Film he has interviewed such diverse talents as actors Keanu Reeves, Tobin Bell, Dave Prowse and Naomie Harris, new Hammer Studios Head Simon Oakes and Hollywood filmmakers James Mangold, Scott Derrickson and Uk director Justin Chadwick. Previously he contributed to dimsum.co.uk and has had other articles published in Empire, Hecklerspray, Se7en Magazine, Pop Matters, The Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle and more recently SciFiNow Magazine and The Guardian. He loves anything directed by Cronenberg, Lynch, Weir, Haneke, Herzog, Kubrick and Hitchcock and always has time for Hammer horror films, Ealing comedies and those twisted Giallo movies. His blog is: http://sites.google.com/site/oliverpfeiffer102/

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