In case you missed original.
Here's Roger Kastel's iconic poster.
Others took note.
Sand Sharks, Shark in Venice and Sharktopus
Different creatures, same shit.
Sea Beast and The Rig
Inanimate and Up From the Depths
The Hatching and Rogue (2007)
2011 anthology novel
Dead Bait 2 cared so much, they copied and pasted swimmer.
We're gonna need a bigger boat!
Ha ha ha!
Dur dur dur sample
Don't tell anyone, but the following didn't ask permission.
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Battle Shark (Arcade)
When sharks approach and during boss battles. |
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ToeJam & Earl (Mega Drive)
Speaks for itself. |
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Jackpot Jaws fruit machine
Deal or no deal Going Fishing feature was probably lifted from Brody's final words to Ellen before departing with Quint and Hooper on the Orca.
Also, sound when gambling for cash sounds 'vaguely' familiar. |
Rather ironically, video slot
Jaws: Bounty Hunter was licensed.
Fishing Feature gives us a shot of
Quint.
Well at least brilliant
sideburns are accurate.
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Flying Shark (Arcade)
Talk about stealing face. |
My only visual rape comes courtesy of
Orca: Killer Whale.
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Richard Harris's Nolan buys it and slides into the water.
Please note crucified pose. |
Because.
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| Death looks rather similar to Quint |
Hmmm.
Two video games of completely different eras now.
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The Evil Within (Various)
Model viewer strings up Shigyo. |
More suspiciously.
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Samurai Shodown II (Neo Geo)
A certain fish is literally hooked in Galford's stage. |
Presenting
Oscar, aka 'the wrong shark'.
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| Twelve-foot Tiger shark was caught in Florida and shipped on ice to Martha's Vineyard. |
Really?
We'll never know.
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Sega's Killer Shark is essentially the same game as Sea Devil. The only difference being is that we harpoon a shark, rather than manta ray.
Anyway, both used series of slides on a wheel to make target move. |
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| Probably in response and/or joke, Jaws parody Piranha features Atari's Shark JAWS. |
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| Unlicensed arcade also appears in 1978 nuclear bomb Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. |
Check this out.
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| Cracked Magazine #129 (November 1975) |
Here's the weird part.
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| By pure coincidence, Elfin Software released Spectrum game Jawz in 1983. |
Gotta love that fucking artwork...
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| Game itself is a pseudo Space Invaders clone. |
Character homages
Baywatch
Both
TV series and
big screen adaptation feature character
Matt Brody.
Name is surely taken from 'Matt' Hooper and 'Martin' Brody.
Mallrats
Jason Lee as
Brodie* Bruce** and Jeremy London as T.S.
Quint.
*Perhaps misspelled on purpose and **shark was named after Spielberg's then
lawyer.
Open Water
Last names of Susan and Daniel are
Watkins and
Kintner, as in
Christine and
Alex respectively.
T-shirts
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Us
Wee lad Jason wears poster with pride. |
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Delivery Man
At some point, Vince Vaughn's David welcomes you to Amity Island. |
Miscellany
Loosely based on Steve Alten's novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, Jon Turteltuab's big screen adaptation
The Meg shares multiple parallels with Jaws.
Suyin inside polycarbonate cage, Yorkshire Terrier Pippin (which doesn't get eaten), boy complaining he can't go back into the drink and woman yelling 'Shark!'
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn and Rick and Morty episode Rick Potion #9 all one way or another spoof
U.S.S. Indianapolis speech.
Towards the end of
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
theme excerpt can be heard when spaceship is
communicating.
Jurassic Park
Not top secret, but still easy to miss.
Blame it on the
Nedry.
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| Crooked computer genius has 'Brody chumming' on monitor. |
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| Shortly after, Quint and Brody observe 25 foot monster swimming by. |
More. More More.
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Bicycle Race (Queen)
"Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars." |
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Resident Evil: Revelations (Various)
"He's turning guppies into Jaws!" |
Pardon the pun, but
Fright Night remake really fucking sucked.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse's
Evil Ed describes his neighbour
'as a vampire like Jaws'.
But wait.
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Fright Night: Part II (1988)
Peter states weapon is from one his movies Jaws the Vampire. |
Disturbing.
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Earthworm Jim 2 (SNES version)
Opening stage Anything but Tangerines has falling grannies and an interpretation of a certain film poster. |
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Fawlty Towers - The Wedding Party
In this rare bedroom scene, Basil gets his teeth into Peter Benchley's novel. |
Which version?
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| 1976 Pan edition |
How dare they not choose
Paul Bacon's rubbish image for 1974 hardcover.
Booooo!!!!!
Licence plate
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Ralph Breaks the Internet
During Broadway-esque 'A Place Called Slaughter Race' song, hit sequel retains mistake of displaying Sportsmen's Paradise, when it should be Sportsman's. |
Admirable.
Deep Blue Sea
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| Mako appears to have something jammed inside snapping tackle. |
What could it be?
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| Although obviously in homage, they correctly used Sportman's. |
Bloody shot of
final shark going boom rings a bell.
Did you know that metal object largely references
James Bond?
Fuck yeah.
Spilling incredible beans.
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| 007 (pretty obvious), and either side of Louisiana is 72 and 73. |
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Live and Let Die takes place in Louisiana.
Finally, eighth outing was produced and released in 1972 and 1973 respectively. |
(Blushes).
Not long after
Jaws, Spielberg wanted to make a Bond film, but was turned down by producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli. Even after the success of
Close Encounters, geezer was snubbed again.
Shit comes full circle.
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| Steel-toothed villain Horror (albeit under the name of Jaws), was the only thing to make it from 1962 novel The Spy Who Loved Me. |
R.I.P. Richard Kiel.
Join me next time as licensed video games (and sometimes not) set sail.
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