The interview with 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley was published June 17, 2000, in the Cape Cod Times. Benchley died in 2006.

In honor of 50 years of 'Jaws', Pat Jankiewicz shares 50 facts about one of the most important horror films in cinema history.

Much more than a mere creature feature, “Jaws” created a playbook that filmmakers have followed closely for 50 years.

But the buzz over the movie was tremendous (both good and bad), and its director, 26-year-old Steven Spielberg, had already ...

Jaws featured some of the scariest shark attacks in film. But its scariest could've been even more haunting had it not been ...

The original script for Steven Spielberg’s monumental blockbuster "Jaws," based on the book by Peter Benchley, called for the film’s bloodthirsty great white shark to emerge from the water in the very ...

It also inflamed our fear of sharks as man-eating monsters, said Jennifer Martin, an environmental historian who teaches at ...

The visceral passages that follow, from the opening chapter of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel Jaws ... depicting either an anonymous torpedo-like creature or a hyper-stylised, dagger-toothed ...