Killer whales in popular culture and at the film's end, seemingly for forgiveness. In contrast, the 1974 Walt Disney produced motion picture "The Island at the Top of the World" portrayed killer whales as bloodthirsty hunters of the protagonists in one particularly brutal scene. In "Jaws" (1975), the name of the boat used to hunt the great white shark is the "Orca", given the killer whale's status as a known predator of the shark. However, in the sequel "Jaws 2", the shark's first victim is a killer whale, which was probably intended more as a Hollywood joke than an accurate portrayal of the eating habits
Jaws (film) film where you only see the monster in the last reel"; and "It Came From Outer Space", where "the suspense was built up because the creature was always off-camera". Those precedents helped Spielberg and Gottlieb to "concentrate on showing the 'effects' of the shark rather than the shark itself". Scholars such as Thomas Schatz described how "Jaws" melds various genres while essentially being an action film and a thriller. Most is taken from horror, with the core of a nature-based monster movie while adding elements of a slasher film. The second half provides a buddy film in the interaction between