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  • Sharksploitation Examines Jaws’ Effect on Pop Culture—and Swimming

    Sharksploitation Examines Jaws’ Effect on Pop Culture—and Swimming

    Before Jaws, most beachgoers didn’t worry about getting chomped by sharks. After Jaws, it’s all anyone could think about—and Hollywood, as well as the international film industry, took notice, capitalizing with so many rip-offs a new genre was born. It gets its own spotlight in a new documentary: Sharksploitation. Sharksploitation arrives on Shudder this week,…


  • All 5 Piranha Movies, Ranked

    All 5 Piranha Movies, Ranked

    Jaws is the original “stay the hell out of the water” summer flick, but you really can’t count the Piranha series out in terms of cautionary tales about never going swimming again. Piranhas may be much smaller than great whites, but they’re fast, they travel in packs, they have tremendous teeth, and they love human…