About 40% thriller, 20 % adventure, 30% suspense, 10% horror
The horror aspect comes from the disturbingly gory deaths, and the shark acting like an unstoppable monster or unnatural force.
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Definitely horror. It's about a shark that eats people and terrorizes a small island community, so it certainly fits snugly into the horror genre.
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There is nothing to be ashamed of by being labeled "horror." It definitely has that element and lots of others. I even consider it one of the great comedies, the interaction on the Orca is hilarious at times.
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I think its kind of like an action adventure suspense thriller and drama all mixed together.. But the thing is this movie is responsible for TONS of people being afraid to go in the ocean and afraid of sharks.. So in a way this is a movie that is a REAL horror movie that actually scared tons of people. I mean many horror movies people watch for excitement and stuff and don't really get scared of something in real life from the movie (maybe I'm wrong though) but this one actually created a real fear.

Suspense or thriller, not horror, being scary doesn't make it a horror movie, The Silence of the Lambs is the same kind of movie, What Lies Beneath also, The Exorcist is horror, Alien, Sci-fi/horror

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Ellenormous? Harrifying?
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It's also Brody-licious and Hooper-rific

Quint-essential? Please tell me you meant that.
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Jaws is not just a horror film, it's a quintessential horror film.

J is so much more.
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If JAWS isn't horror than neither is HALLOWEEN.
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Yes, it's as action-packed as True Lies and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The suspense and scares far outweigh the action.

For me it's an action film, albeit one with extremely strong suspense and horror elements.

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Pretend it's 2000, you work at a Blockbuster Video, and you can only put the case in one section.
Comedy
Drama
Action
Suspense
Horror
Sci-Fi
Documentary
Musical
Good way to look at it, obviously its a documentary because of its totally accurate portrayal of shark behavior.
Just joking, based on that criteria, I'd probably put it under suspense, but if I saw it under horror I wouldn't really disagree with it either.

Agreed, pequaboy.
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Way back in 2003, JAWS was genre listed as a horror/thriller. I'm the guy who brought the attention to the IMDB mods that JAWS is in no way, shape or form, a horror. I pushed the adventure, drama, thriller genres. I don't remember what my argument was exactly then, but I will argue it here.
There is no real horror to this film. JAWS is about a shark, a fish that did nothing different than any other shark. Other than it's size (which is fantastic, but not extraordinary), there's nothing more. To quote Matt Hooper, "All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks,".
Yes it's scary at times, but scary is a far cry from horror. Perhaps you'd have to be a shark fisherman to understand why. As far as the film is concerned, the scariest scene is Hooper's dive to investigate Ben Gardner's boat.
I would never try to take anything away from this film. It's certainly a thinkers film and one which will always make a 1st time viewer reluctant about entering any large body of water, salt or even fresh. Jaws will always be one of my top 3 films.
But I reiterate, Jaws is not horror
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Pretend it's 2000, you work at a Blockbuster Video, and you can only put the case in one section.
Comedy
Drama
Action
Suspense
Horror
Sci-Fi
Documentary
Musical

Its somewhere between a horror and thriller, honestly I think it meets the qualifications for both.

.. "Spielberg doesn't consider it a horror film, and he's the guy whoy'know directed it. "
Exactly ! !
I saw the movie when it came out & I was 10 (11?) . . .
AND yes, I'll admit
. . Anytime I've put a toe in the water at the beach, since
that
summer, I've thought (Wayyyy in the back of my mind); "what if.."
Hence: It was/is a GREAT movie. compared to 99.3567168463% of
today's
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Hi,
you're only comparing J with horror movies. I can say an orange is round, about the size of an apple and is a fruit, but that doesn't make it an apple even though there are many similarities. Off topic, have you ever tried to use physical description to differentiate between a cat and a dog?
Anyway; the movies I'd compare J to are the likes of
Moby Dick
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Pulp Fiction
,
Silence of the Lambs
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Psycho
,
Misery
,
Sophie's Choice
. The longevity of J is based in it being most of the time a thriller drama.
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I think we can both agree that Jaws was made to scare people

It may have been made as a thriller. I think it transcends the thriller genre and becomes as much or more a horror. It's very much been a template for many horror movies; a killer terrorising a local community, killing people off one by one. That is Jaws in a nutshell. Most of the horrors of this nature have a build up and and a suspense, if they're any good. Halloween certainly does. The idea for Alien was even pitched as "Jaws in space". If they are horrors then Jaws should be too.

I myself would view it as a thriller after horror.
I respect that. I myself would view it as a thriller with moments of horror. Also humor, drama, and adventure. Thriller above all else, though, because it's all about the build-up, the suspense. The pay-offs (head, leg, geyser of blood) are brief.
Spielberg has said that he wanted Jaws to keep people on the edge of their seats. It's been described by many as Hitchcockian and we all know what he was The Master of