I read that people were scared of going to the beach after Jaws came out in the summer of 1975.
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LOL
but also yes that movie blew people away with the first-person kinda format..
Hillary's America... just look at the voters it chased away, hell it chased them to Trump who was also scary.
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thomas998- LOL Any documentary about a politician is scary stuff, cos they are REAL and not figments of a writer's imagination.
I know it's not a horror movie, but after I saw "The Poseidon Adventure" I never had any desire to take a cruise!
After I saw "The Towering Inferno" I refused to go higher than the third floor in a skyscraper.
Hahaha, that's funny.
shareFriday the 13th. Summer camp attendances went way down
shareHaloween 1978+1979 ttrick or treating really died down
shareHonestly, that movie had me scared of lakes when I was a kid. We had a cabin on a lake and every time I went swimming or rowing I thought Jason was going to grab me.
shareThat is just silly.
shareAlien. So very few people go into space. Fear of the xenomorph is the only explanation.
shareNone. Jaws was the first Tentpole movie, having a significant impact on how the movie business functioned ever after. None of the other films mentioned here even comes close.
shareFor me, it was "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984).
I saw them both at a young age, and Jaws kept me out of the ocean, but when I saw Elm Street for the first time, I was legit scared to go to sleep that night.
I had a recurrent nightmare about Freddy coming out of my TV and I couldn't move and if I closed my eyes I'd still see him.... NIGHTMARES ABOUT FREDDY !!! How worse can it get? Lol. I had them for a while.
shareFirst of all I don't consider it a horror movie. As someone who saw the original at the theater for my 11th birthday, I can say it did not have that effect at all. Actually I was scared it would be much scarier than it was. I don't recall it having any impact as far as people actually not going to the beach. Now it's possible people became a little more wary of sharks.
But it did of course have a big impact on society in the sense of how popular it was. 1975 was the year of Jaws, and it was all over the place.
As far as horror The Exorcist (1974) and Psycho (1960) were the ones that had the biggest impact. I can't really think of any since those that came close. I mean all the Stephen King ones were great, but didn't exactly have the societal impact of those two.
As far as horror The Exorcist (1974) and Psycho (1960) were the ones that had the biggest impact.
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I consider (in chronological order), Psycho, The Exorcist, and Jaws to be "the three superthrillers" of the 20th Century . They all came in the second half, but Psycho rather started the whole "shocker blockbuster" trend.
All of them were huge, Number One hits in their years (well, Number Two for Hitchcock, and he usually didn't score that high), lines around the block, audiences screaming through them and going home frightened for days.
I sometimes think that Alien should be on that list, too -- but it turns out it wasn't the big grosser that the others were.
I think key to Psycho, The Exorcist, and Jaws doing so well is that -- with The Exorcist as the exception, I guess -- they were "PG" shock entertainments that didn't gross out audiences too much.
Came the 80's, horror moved to truly gruesome stuff -- intestines being pulled out and the like -- and the movies couldn't really bring us something as "huge" as those big three in terms of drawing the general public in.