The Welcome back to the Faculty of Horror. We're podcasting from the

Howard and summary halls of academia. This is Alex West with Andrea Subissette. and Summer School

Hall's of Academia.

And yes, welcome to Summer School.

You can tell it is Summer School because Andrea and I have switched from drinking wine

to drinking beer, and it is delicious.

We're drinking M. G. D today which might be a domestic where you're from, but from where we're sitting,

it's a delicious summer in port and we're enjoying it immensely.

And speaking of delicious summary imports, today we wanted to talk about two of what we think are the most quintessential summer horror movies.

And those would be 1975's Stephen Spielberg classic blockbuster inventing film Jaws.

And Joe Dante's, I think equally amazing

1978 film piranha. That's right we're taking the faculty of

horror to the beach. No that's scary for us because you're both quite pale, you know, Andrea tends to hiss when the sun comes out and I burn easily. So we're both being very vulnerable in this episode and we hope that you appreciate that.

One of the most important contemporary films for a lot of reasons I would say is Stephen Spielberg's

jaws and that goes into a lot of the

socio history of this film, which not only has to do

with the way it combines genres, and also the way

it is a terrifying and very unnerving film in some ways, but in the way that it created the blockbuster

film.

This had never really been seen, and you know, almost 40 years later, we are in a summer right now where we are seeing a new quote unquote blockbuster

open every weekend.

And it's become such that these blockbuster seasons now start in April and go through Labor Day weekend. So we are in the age

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