Movies Do You Consider Jaws A Horror Movie?

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

According to IMDb it's an adventure/thriller/mystery film.

And yet it's responsible for terrifying a lot of people about swimming in the ocean.
There's also a great jump scene when Hooper is swimming in the ocean at night.

And while it does have scary elements in it, I'm not sure I would call it a horror movie.

It's an adventure thriller in my book.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Suspense/thriller.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

It’s anti fish pro human propaganda

 

[revoltub]

Yeah there are horror elements

 

[Highway99]

Read the top line...look at the scary monster about to eat that woman...I always found it fascinating that people deny Jaws is a horror film. It was marketed as a movie that will scare the shit out of you, and thats exactly what it did to a generation of people who kept to the pool when they felt like taking a dip.

 

[Thrawn33]

Yes. Same as Alien and Terminator

 

[sleepwalk]

If it was a dude in a mask instead of a 25ft murder fish, nobody would even question it.

 

[Dizzy]

Of course it’s horror. It’s a monster movie.

 

[Thrawn33]

Will add "almost horror":
Jurassic Park (book was horror, movie became more a Techno thriller blockbuster)

Predator: very close but was an action thriller (and the in the running for manliness film of all times)

 

[StewDogg11]

I remember in the movie guide I had as a kid it was in the Action/Adventure section.

 

[LEWIS540]

Basically the same film as Alien, Predator, The Thing, Jurassic Park etc.

Only difference is the antagonist is actually a real thing.

Not an out and out horror, but definitely elements of it.

 

[StewDogg11]

Yes. Same as Alien and Terminator

Time traveling cyborg and an alien in outer space set in the future are gonna be Science Fiction for me.

 

[LEWIS540]

Time traveling cyborg and an alien in outer space set in the future are gonna be Science Fiction for me.

I believe it’s possible for films to span more than one genre.

 

[Blayt7hh]

It’s anti fish pro human propaganda

Big Tuna funded it. Follow the money

 

[Dizzy]

If you want further proof that Jaws is a horror movie, look at the countless imitators it spawned. They’re all horror movies.

 

[Thrawn33]

Time traveling cyborg and an alien in outer space set in the future are gonna be Science Fiction for me.

Unstoppable force with no morals killing thoughtlessly

Killer lurking in the dark taking form after possessing a body

 

[rearnakedchoke]

I said no, but remembered that 1100 men when in the water, 316 men came out. The sharks took the rest. But they delivered the bomb.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Thought that said Jews for a second

 

[bandicoot]

Suspense/thriller.

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[HereticBD]

Technically, I'd say yes it is. It's just too classy, that it's hard to put it into such a narrow genre with a reputation of being trash. It falls along the same lines of "The Silence of The Lambs". In less capable hands, it's a run of the mill horror flick about psycho killers. The quality brings it up from the mud. "Alien" is another one, that people struggle to label as "horror", and would rather put the "suspense" moniker on it, as it doesn't sound as cheap.