Shark Movies: How this unique sub-genre of horror has changed over the years

Shark movies have been massively popular. It went on to become so popular that it is w considered as a sub-genre of horror. Hollywood has been making shark movies for deces w, and se films have seen significant growth over time. Here's how genre has changed over time.

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growth of Killer Shark movies

Hollywood has me several shark movies throughout years. One of oldest shark movies dates back to 1977. From n, genre of killer shark movies has changed significantly, and filmmakers have developed genre from scratch. At first, se movies included key points such as highly intelligent sharks, or fantasy elements with humaid sharks, but it did t seem to work much for genre. To counter this, filmmakers h to delve deeper into numerous issues concerning human psychology, to understand how fear works. This led to ir findings that sci-fi and fantasy elements are t compatible with killer shark genre, inste of a setting where helpless humans are trapped with hungry apex predator, in places where latter has an upper hand scared audience most.

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filmmakers studied how empathy worked and me characters and settings that audience can relate more with. For example, in scenes where a group of people get stuck on a boat, one of m goes in water and is totally unaware of sharks that are visible to general audience. Inste of trying to depict something that was unrealistic, filmmakers drew focus on realistic elements and scenarios.

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Steven Spielberg is widely considered as leer of movement after his iconic film Jaws revolutionised genre. Shark Night (2011), Open Water (2003), Bait (2012), and 47 Meters Down, are some of table movies of this sub-genre of horror. Reports are that even DCEU is set to make a shark movie. Fans are excited about this news.

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