February 22, 2011

Jaws Ripoffs

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws inspired terror…and a slew of half-assed copycat films. None of these movies strike me as worthwhile, but their posters - usually featuring sharks and other sea creatures attacking swimmers from below - do inspire a certain fascination. Here are 28 of the silliest, strangest and most epic scenes of aquatic mayhem from the ’70s and ’80s.