Cruel Jaws Cruel Jaws Cruel Jaws, also known as The Beast, is a 1995 direct-to-video Italian thriller film shot in Florida including the Theater of the Sea. The film stars Richard Dew and David Luther and was directed by Bruno Mattei (under the name of William Snyder). It was released on VHS and DVD in relative obscurity, mostly outside of the United States. While marketed in many areas as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws, it is actually not part of the "Jaws" franchise. The coastal town of Hampton Bay is threatened when a 25-foot great white shark starts chomping up their vacationers. Days
Jaws: The Revenge The underwater chase scene between Mike and the shark in "Revenge" was lifted from an early screenplay draft of "Jaws 3-D". Lorraine Gary portrayed Ellen Brody in the first two films. In a press release, Gary says "Jaws: The Revenge"' is "also about relationships which ... makes it much more like the first "Jaws"." This was Gary's first film since appearing in Spielberg's "1941" eight years earlier, as well as her final film role. The press release proposes that the character "had much more depth and texture than either of the other films was able to explore. The promise of