All Four ‘Jaws’ Movies Are Returning to Netflix for 50th Anniversary
Netflix celebrates 50 years of Jaws by bringing the entire franchise back to streaming this summer, and we’ve learned that all four movies are making their return in less than a month. Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge are swimming back to Netflix on July 15. It all began with Steven Spielberg’s horror classic in 1975, an […]
Netflix celebrates 50 years of Jaws by bringing the entire franchise back to streaming this summer, and we’ve learned that all four movies are making their return in less than a month.
Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge are swimming back to Netflix on July 15.
It all began with Steven Spielberg’s horror classic in 1975, an adaptation of Peter Benchley’s same-titled novel that has been keeping people out of the water for 50 years now.
The late Roy Scheider’s heroic character Martin Brody survived the events of the original film and returned in 1978 for Jaws 2, once again saving Amity from another killer shark.
The franchise returned in 1983 with Jaws 3D, which brought the shark attack terror to SeaWorld in Florida. The film centered on Martin Brody’s sons, with Dennis Quaid starring as Michael Brody. Jenn Adams recently wrote an appreciation for Jaws 3D here on BD, writing:
“Widely considered the low point of the franchise, the story of a great white shark at SeaWorld features pointless 3-D effects and a nearly bloodless plot. However, despite these glaring flaws, Jaws 3D is a mostly joyful and progressive approach to the shark film that deserves more than a watery death in the scrap pile of cinematic history.”
And then there’s Jaws: The Revenge, which ended the franchise in 1987. Lorraine Gray reprised the role of Ellen Brody for the maligned fourth film, which centered on a shark apparently seeking revenge on the Brody bloodline. The film ended with the shark being impaled and exploded in gruesome fashion. Among the survivors? Screen legend Michael Caine!
You can relive the good, bad, and ugly of the franchise on Netflix beginning July 15.
