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[Video] Universal Wants You to Relive the Terror of the Shark Attack Scenes from ‘Jaws’
Just in case you were thinking about getting into the water this summer…
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is widely considered to be one of the scariest movies of all time, and you won’t find me disagreeing with that assessment. As someone who has spent his whole life in a beach town, the fear of shark attacks is all too real, and nobody has better exploited and played into those very real fears than Spielberg masterfully did back in the summer of ’75.
It’s now been well over 40 years since Spielberg unleashed Jaws and the film is still as scary as it ever was, proving that some terror is truly timeless. As a cruel celebration of the start of summer, Universal has just uploaded “Scariest Shark Attacks” to their YouTube channel, an 8-minute collection of all the shark attack scenes from the film… in High Definition!
From Chrissie’s final moments to Quint’s last stand, relive the nightmare below!
Fangoria Studios and Panick Studios are turning horror comic Black Diamond into a film, and Variety reports that Ernest Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight) will direct.
Black Diamond comic book creator Brendan Columbus will write the screenplay.
Black Diamond follows Owen and Victoria Welch on a family ski trip that spirals into a nightmare. When their son is abducted by a mysterious cult, the couple is pushed to the brink and faced with a soul-crushing ultimatum: sacrifice another child or lose their own forever.
The comic book series from Panick Entertainment is described as a “chilling folk horror thriller blending Hitchcockian psychological tension with the dread of The Wicker Man.”
“Black Diamond was my attempt to put everything I love about thrillers on the page,” Columbus tells Variety. “I want to make sure it feels like you physically can’t leave the theater or else you’ll miss the next twist or turn. With his masterful cinematic eye and his great story sense, Ernest is going to scare the hell out of everyone with this one.”
“Black Diamond immediately grabbed me because its horror is rooted in impossible human choices,” says Dickerson. “It taps into parental fear, morality, isolation, and survival in a way that is so unsettling and emotionally real. That combination will make for a very suspenseful and exciting cinematic experience.”
Ernest Dickerson is directing and executive producing the feature film. Black Diamond will notably be Ernest Dickerson’s first feature film as director since Double Play in 2017, though he has in more recent years been directing for an impressive string of television shows including “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Purge,” “Raised by Wolves,” “Bosch,” and “DMZ.”
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