Dark Discussions Podcast

Welcome to Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. In 1973, author Peter Benchley had his now famous novel, Jaws, published to great acclaim. Inspired by a number of real life incidents of sharks attacking humans, the novel is the journey of three very different men who come together to hunt down a shark that has been terrorizing sunbathers and tourists of a small Northeastern American ocean community. Paramount Pictures and Steven Spielberg took Mr. Benchley's script and made one of the most terrifying and successful films in history. The story of the great white shark brings drama, horror, thriller, and action themes all together in one. The result defined the spectacle film and changed both Hollywood and cinema forever. The summer movie was born yet as time has passed, re-evaluation of such films has clarified that such films have as much to say as those considered more academic. With the 100th anniversary of Paramount Pictures, Jaws has