Psycho And Jaws Comparison

When you think of horror movies, what do you think of; blood, spooky faces, or spiders? Well the fact is that horror has really been developed and molded by two major “blockbuster” movies. Those being Psycho and Jaws. The two of movies are both classics and help push the horror genre by being similar in the score and soundtrack, the use of violence, the use of cameras, and the water as a symbol.
In both the movies Jaws and Psycho they use specific sounds and music at the right time to give off a creeping feeling, that feeling you get of for example someone breathing down your neck. Or the shivers down your spine! In Jaws it's uses a deep trumpet or something to let you know that “jaws” the shark is nearby. Like at the middle of the movie when

Hooper is in the water and the music starts playing and you know he's there “jaws.” However in Psycho it does it slightly different the example of this is when Marion is in the shower, it quiet very quiet. But it does a quick jump to a screeching panicky sound. This is basically like a jump scare. But you still know this sound whenever it is played for now on, is along with the Jaws trumpet. Both of these sounded are only played when someone is killed or violence happens however.
Violence is also a major breaker for these two movies. When both of the movies trailers came out they told the audience that someone was killed. In the trailer for Jaws they show a girl going swimming out in the water and they say that a, the shark, will swallow you whole. This lets the audience know that someone or many people are killed and is inevitable. But for Psycho it’s a bit different. Your opening scene to the trailer is just a man explaining and telling about a crime scene. They both tell about one or more people being killed, however, this film is slightly different. The trailer from Psycho dose not once use a single clip from the actual film. While in Jaws it uses all of its clips from the movie. Each of these uses specific clips and camera spots to give it the horror too!
The camera angles and cinematography for Psycho and Jaws are very similar. To start both Jaws and Psycho use a bunch of clip jumping to progress the story. They also use a bunch of camera spots jumping to get a bunch of angles in on one scene. For Psycho it is the long awaited shower scene. In this once scene it uses almost forty different camera spots, forty! While in Jaws it was the scene with Hopper in the shark cage. This scene uses about eight camera jump, it's not a lot but they both use this technique to get the most horror out of a clip as possible. With is cinematography, the are both doing the basic closeups on main characters and fades. One famous quote used with is was “Were going to need a bigger boat.” Speaking of boats how do you feel about water.
Because water is one of the BIGGEST symbols in both of these movies. With Psycho it is basically death or trouble. The examples of this is to start is the shower, the warm water sprays down on Marion, washing away dirt, washing away worry, washing away sin. Or so she thinks. It's basically when she dies. Then there is the private investigator, it's raining and goes it to the bates house. He is stabbed on the stairs and dies. Then there's the water in Jaws, it is mainly the say principle; Death. The moments for this are one of the opening cuts. A girl goes swimming, dies. Then the captain slides into the water dies by shark, “end of movie” Therefore the water in both Psycho and Jaws are pretty much the same.
In conclusion having all four ingredients, sound, violence, camera locations, and the water aspect in the same two movies makes these two movies very similar and made them some of the best classics! Think about that next time you go out swimming or to the shower!