Jaws (film) of Matt Hooper, his character in "Jaws". During his appearance, Dreyfuss's character listens to the song "Show Me the Way to Go Home" on the radio, which Hooper, Quint and Brody sing together aboard the "Orca". Martha's Vineyard celebrated the film's 30th anniversary in 2005 with a "JawsFest" festival, which had a second edition in 2012. An independent group of fans produced the feature-length documentary "The Shark Is Still Working", featuring interviews with the film's cast and crew. Narrated by Roy Scheider and dedicated to Peter Benchley, who died in 2006, it debuted at the 2009 Los Angeles United Film
Jaws (film) "Jaws" set the template for many subsequent horror films, to the extent that the script for Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction film "Alien" was pitched to studio executives as ""Jaws" in space". Many films based on man-eating animals, usually aquatic, were released through the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Orca", "Grizzly", "", "Barracuda", "Alligator", "Day of the Animals", "Tintorera", and "Eaten Alive". Spielberg declared "Piranha", directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles, "the best of the "Jaws" ripoffs". Among the various foreign mockbusters based on "Jaws", three came from Italy: "Great White", which inspired a plagiarism lawsuit by