In 1975, Steven Spielberg made Hollywood history when he adapted Peter Benchley's Jaws to the big screen, making generations fall in love with shark movies and creature features. In the five decades ...

Born out of the monster movie boom of the '50s and hitting new highs in the '70s with the likes of Jaws and Alien, the creature feature genre hit a weird and wonderful stride in the 1980s—supercharged ...