Steven Spielberg's Jaws, which first hit the cinemas a little over 50 years ago, was unique in the genre of horror films. Unlike so many others, the movie did not use the jump-scare formula to create terror among its viewers. It relied on silent suspense—at least mostly—to cause a kind of uneasy fear and panic that kept many beach-goers from stepping into the waters. Audiences, tired of watching eerie works like The Exorcist and His House, lapped up Jaws with its huge man-eating shark that ripped off body parts of unsuspecting swimmers. In fact, Spielberg followed Alfred Hitchcock's style of keeping the bomb under the table........

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