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Jawstargets Brody class appendage in all of his movies , andJaws : The Revenge ’s novelization explains why : the shark is actually a hoodoo curse . Released in 1975,Steven Spielberg’soriginalJawsfilmis an undisputed classic , and was also the original summer blockbuster . Unfortunately , its sequels proved to be mostly regrettable campaign . While 1978’sJaws 2was enough enough , Jaws 3 - DandJaws : The Revengeprimarily process as example of what not to do when making a horror sequel .
A plebeian thread running throughout theJawsfranchise is the nominal shark ’s love of targeting the Brody family . After the first motion picture ’s shark is down off by constabulary chief Martin Brody ( Roy Scheider ) , another great Andrew Dickson White return to menace the Brodys andAmity Island . InJaws 3 - ergocalciferol , the featured shark attacks Sea World in Florida , which just encounter to employ Martin ’s now grown boy Mike Brody ( Dennis Quaid ) . Finally , Jaws : The Revengefocuses on Martin ’s married woman Ellen Brody ( Lorraine Gary ) , now a widow woman after Martin died of a heart attempt . Ellen travel to the Bahamas to be with other family , and a homicidal great albumen actually fall out her there , after killing one of her sons back in Amity . Clearly , shark do not like the Brodys .
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Sporting the idiotic tagline of " This time , it ’s personal " and featuring a killer shark that inexplicably howl like a lion , Jaws : The Revengeis truly a laughing fund . After all , shark ca n’t keep back score , can they ? It turns out thatJaws : The Revengeactually acquire an official tie - in novelisation that attempted to excuse why Jaws on the face of it has a vendetta against the Brodys . Unfortunately , the explanation is one of the strangest one could suppose .
Jaws: The Revenge Novelization Makes the Shark a Voodoo Curse
In theJaws : The Revengenovelization , written by writer Hank Searls , it ’s hard implied that the reason Orcinus orca sharks are unrelentingly target the Brody family is that Old son Mike ( not Dennis Quaid , this movie ignoresJaws 3 - D ) earned the ire of a local witch doctor named Papa Jacques while working as a marine biologist in the Bahamas . A practitioner in voodoo , the witch doctor sentJaws : The Revenge ’s shark after Ellen Brody and family to get back at Mike for not believing in his power and branding him a fraud . While this does n’t inevitably explicate the sharks in the other picture show , it ’s still a completely stupid effort to explainThe Revenge ’s already giddy plot of ground that was cleverly left out of the actual flick .
Jaws: The Revenge Was So Bad It Killed the Franchise
Then again , it ’s possible include voodoo and a witch doctor would n’t have made much of a difference forJaws : The Revenge , a movie so unsound that it kill the franchise . While most popular horror property never truly stay put buried , there has n’t been a newJawsmovie since 1987 , over 30 years ago . Just about every possible matter was done wrong when makingJaws : The Revenge , and it is n’t even entertaining in a " so bad it ’s estimable " way . If anything , there might well be a voodooism torment on the franchise . divertingly enough though , Lorraine Gary ’s co - starMichael Cainewas once asked about his oeuvre in the film , and bluntly responded " I have never seen it , but by all accounts it is terrible . However , I have seen the house that it built , and it is terrific . "
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