A Brief History of Beach Movies, Part 4: Horror Films That Terrorize the Sand
By
Glenn Kenny
Toasted golden, schmeared with insight. Top of the rack.
Summary
Part 4 of DECIDER's series on beach movies explores the horror subgenre, examining how filmmakers have turned the sunny, idyllic beach setting into a source of terror. Critic Glenn Kenny charts the evolution from Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) as the ultimate beach horror film, through other notable entries like The Monster of Piedras Blancas, analyzing how horror stalks the sand and transforms the beach from a place of innocence to one of fear.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe ultimate beach horror movie is of course Steven Spielberg's 1975 Jaws, which requires no recommendation from this reporter.
Summer is finally here, and nothing evokes the spirit of the season like sand, sun, sweat, and surf.
We've witnessed innocence found and lost, and even seen how revisionists reinvented the genre. Today? Horror stalks the beach…
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