Horror movies directed by Jeannot Szwarc

How Jaws 2 scares: You spend a lot of this movie waiting on sunny water, watching teenagers on boats and jet skis having fun, which makes the sudden shark attacks hit harder when they come. The dread builds slowly through police-chief-nobody-believes-him frustration, then breaks into short bursts of real physical danger once the shark shows up. It leans more on the fear of being stranded in open water with something big and hungry below you than on gross-out blood or mind-bending scares. It's a solid pick if you want beach-set creature-feature tension rather than nightmare fuel that sticks with you.

How Bug scares: It opens like a disaster movie, with an earthquake cracking open the ground and unleashing strange bugs, then slowly narrows down into a much quieter, stranger story about one man's obsession with them. The pace is slow and talky for a creature feature, with long stretches of a scientist tinkering in his lab instead of constant attacks. The scares lean more toward odd, unsettling imagery and dated but memorable practical effects than jolts or gore. It's a cult curiosity more than a true fright fest, best for people who enjoy strange old-school B-movies rather than modern horror pacing.