Jaws 3-D/ Jaws: The Revenge — Five Dollar Bin Double Feature
Theme: The shark still looks fake.
A very hearty welcome back to Five Dollar Bin Double Feature, where I search my local Walmart’s bargain DVD bin for two films to pair on a movie lover’s Saturday night in.
As we near the end of the summer, I’d like to highlight a bygone staple of the summer blockbuster slate, the one and only Jaws franchise.
To be clear, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 unsinkable masterpiece stands apart and above, not just this blood-soaked, sharp-toothed saga, but the entire Jaws-rip-off/ animal horror sub-genre, and totally washes its fins of it, instead feeling far more at home in conversation with films like King Kong, Alien, The Birds, and Spielberg’s own Jurassic Park.
The two films I’m covering today, Joe Alves’ Jaws 3-D, and Joseph Sargent’s Jaws: The Revenge, belong to a different class, one that ranges from absolute gem — Piranha, Tremors, Orca, Alligator, The Beast — to absolute trash — Tentacles, Up From the Depths, Grizzly, Barracuda, Shark Attack, Sharknado, Sharktopus, Food of the Gods, Birdemic, among countless others.
