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Photo: Vulture, Lionsgate, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. Any hit movie is bound to inspire imitators, but few have inspired as many as Jaws. That’s bound to happen when you’re not just one of the most successful movies of all time, but also the movie that invented the modern blockbuster. The years after Jaws conquered the box office in 1975 saw an onslaught of man-versus-killer-animal films like Tentacles , Piranha , Grizzly , Alligator , and Orca .
12. Great White .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjzd9g0vf007m3h6662jtr210@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } Few Jaws rip-offs are quite as bald-faced in their theft as Great White, an Italian production directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
9. Sharknado .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjzd9hffa008m3h660wuw6nr6@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } Fortunately, there’s no chance any sharks were harmed in making Sharknado. Produced by The Asylum, the low-budget production company best known for “mockbusters” like Transmorphers and Triassic World, it became an unexpected sensation when it aired on Syfy in 2013 .
6. The Reef .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjzd9iuwo009p3h663j34tt13@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } Not all low-budget shark movies have to use cheap CGI effects to make an impression.
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