Consider how the audience is terrorised by the film Jaws.

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During the summer of 1975, North American beaches were quieter than usual. This wasn’t the result of concern over the damaging damaging the environment. Beaches were poorly attended because people were scared. Jaws was enough to keep them away. While there was hype around it’s release, the extreme public reaction was less due to marketing. Despite a brutal on-location filming experience, during which the now-ancient technology that brought the shark to life broke down repeatedly, director
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Steven Spielberg constructed a chillingly frightening film about a wayward and decidedly hungry great white shark that’s marauding the beaches of New England’s usually peaceful Amity Island. Great whites aren’t common in those waters, so it takes several fatal shark attacks for police chief Martin Brody, Roy Scheider, to convince the mayor, Murray Hamilton, and others that the threat is real. Once everyone realizes that there’s a huge shark munching on swimmers, two specialists are called on to help Brody capture the beast – scientist Matt Hooper, Richard Dreyfuss, and local seafaring tough-guy Quint, Robert Shaw. The three head out ...

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