Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 he wades in the water. In 1974, writer Peter Benchley published "Jaws", a novel about a rogue great white shark that terrorizes the fictional coastal community of Amity Island. Chief of police Martin Brody, biologist Matt Hooper, and fisherman Quint hunt the shark after it kills four people. The novel was adapted as the film "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg in 1975. Spielberg's film makes reference to the events of 1916: Brody (Roy Scheider) and Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) urge Amity's Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) to close the beaches on the Fourth of July after the deaths of two swimmers and a
The Reef (2010 film) can hope for is 30 screens, which is what you get for Australian films, unless you make something like "Australia"." The film was released straight-to-DVD in the United Kingdom in January 2011. The film received positive reviews from critics, achieving a score of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics praised the use of actual shark footage, as opposed to special effects, in the film, as well as the directing and acting. Crikey described "The Reef" as "an unnerving winner: tense, twitchy and frighteningly entertaining." Numerous horror review sites gave the film a thumbs up comparing it with "Jaws" and "Open Water".