Movies like Jaws
Jaws is most extreme on REALITY ANCHOR — grounded realism at 012. Everything below is a movie that lands near it on the same six axes, which is a different question from "what else is tagged horror". Ranked by distance, closest first.
That is Jaws’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
Halloween
John Carpenter · 1978 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
81% shared signal
Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero · 1968 · Film
Shares grounded realism.
80% shared signal
Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero · 1978 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
71% shared signal
Poltergeist
Tobe Hooper · 1982 · Film
69% shared signal
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976 · Film
69% shared signal
Alien
Ridley Scott · 1979 · Film
68% shared signal
The Omen
Richard Donner · 1976 · Film
Shares grounded realism.
68% shared signal
The Exorcist
William Friedkin · 1973 · Film
66% shared signal
Candyman
Bernard Rose · 1992 · Film
66% shared signal
The Blair Witch Project
D. Myrick & E. Sánchez · 1999 · Film
66% shared signal
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper · 1974 · Film
65% shared signal
Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski · 1968 · Film
65% shared signal
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