It’s easy to create a villain. Two notes, some clever camera work, and a lingering sense of dread were all it took to hard launch a monster into the ocean, one who tears bodies limb from limb, ...

Fifty years ago, Jaws kept scores of people away from the ocean–the primal fear of what lurks beneath, a terrifying soundtrack dominated by two low notes, and the constant need for a bigger boat. But ...

“Jaws,” which hit theaters 50 years ago next Friday, is known for making many splashes. It was the first hit for a 27-year-old Steven Spielberg, the man who’d go on to become one of Hollywood’s ...

A view of Damien Hirst's “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991) at the Metropolitan Museum in 2007 (via hragv.com) Making its way into our collective consciousness ...

When my late husband, Peter Benchley, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary, I had one wish: to go cage diving with great white sharks. After decades of ocean expeditions together, I’d often been the ...

50 years on, the novel and film get criticized for maligning sharks. But they also raised a generation of marine biologists and environmentalists. Happy Friday! Today we’re explaining how “Jaws,” ...

Fifty years ago, Jaws hit theaters with the force of a tsunami, and proceeded to scare the living daylights out of millions of viewers. Beach attendance plummeted in the months following the film’s ...