In this Oscar winning classic from Steven Spielberg – and the first true summer blockbuster – a lone great white shark trolls the waters surrounding the small island community of Amity.

The chilling John Williams score signals impending doom with its now famous minimal two-note theme, and Spielberg’s wise decision to limit glimpses of the shark itself (caused mostly by the mechanical fish’s talent for regularly malfunctioning) resulted in many an audience member questioning whether or not they would (or could) ever step back into the ocean.