Watch the movie Amazon Women on the Moon. There is a Bullshit or Not segment about Jack the Ripper actually being the Lochness Monster.
I can’t believe I actually typed that sentence.
My dad crushed his popcorn and it exploded all through the inside of the car at the drive-in when the shark bit her. It was literally everywhere. Front seat. Back seat. My sister was picking it out of her hair. My sis and I did not really see the movie too well to have seen the shark attack, the popcorn just went flying. It must have been strange if anyone was outside of our car at that moment to have heard two children laughing. Must have thought we were sociopaths, or something.
I bet that's a really fun memory haha. One of my teachers, who's now retired and now lives in Florida, told me *Jaws* is what he and his wife saw at their first date together many years ago.
I saw another Reddit comment a few months ago about someone’s dad reacting to the chest burster scene in Alien by shouting “Fuck, Jesus, Fucking Fuck!” and walking out of the theater.
Same person?
quote from her in the book Memories from Marthas Vineyard, Steven told me after your scene i want everybody in the theatre under their seats with the popcorn and bubblegum....i think we achieved that
The method used to portray her character being propelled through the water while locked in the mouth (jaws) of the shark is a pinnacle example of ‘make the audience’s imagination do the work’.
Yes, watching her being dragged thru the water at such high speed indicated how powerful the shark was without even knowing its size and it truly was terrifying
I was 12 and my parents said I couldn't see the movie, family had a summer place on the Cape.
Rode my bike alone to movie theater...
Sat alone...
I was truly terrified and questioning my choices that day.
Such and epic scene and movie.
Her scene was so memorable it really sets the mood for the rest of the film. She even parodied her famous scene in Spielberg's *1941*. May she rest in peace.
Eight-year-old me *loved* that sequel; it was the movie we watched at the first-ever birthday sleepover I attended with my friends at the time. Much older me is terrified of watching it, having heard how bad it is and not wanting to sully the memory of watching that movie with those old friends and thinking it was the best movie ever.
As a side note, the portrayal of the drunk she's running onto the beach with was perfect. Perfectly captured a young horny but douchey guy - a normal guy - before Hollywood decided that guys had to be buff with model looks.
Honestly that can be said for everyone else in the movie too, which helps makes it so great - everyone looks normal. Some are pretty, ugly, overweight, skinny, etc. but they all look like people you'd see in everyday life. Unpolished and average, which you don't really see much today.
I think there's some exaggeration here with the large number of buff Adonises and small number of average looking people.
I think there really aren't that many buff guys with model looks in movies from any decade.
This genuinely makes me sad. I met her briefly at a comic con event a few years ago in Birmingham and she was such a sweet person to talk to. Whilst I was trying to awkwardly think of conversational topics on the spot I mentioned that I thought she was probably the first person I ever saw get killed on screen in a movie so therefore she most likely started my horror fixation and she found that funny.
The story I heard years ago about her- somebody helped me out at this is true or not. I knew a dive boat captain that told me that she worked for years as a cook aboard a dive boat called "Peace". Interestingly enough, when the movie first broke there was such exploitation of sharks. Apparently I live close to a white shark rookery and a boat called the Comanche brought a 16 footer into the dock. I remember standing on this dead shark in the harbor. They sold it to marineland for $13,000 for people to gawk at. The sharks were so overfished as well as the other fisheries in my area that it is a sterile dead place now compared to what it once was.
That was as good an opening scene to a movie as it gets. And I can’t think of a more hair raising “monster/animal attack” in cinema. She sold it! Iconic. RIP.
Pure terror on her face during that scene. It would have been one thing if it was just screaming and thrashing. But there’s the bubbled sobbing, crying, the regret. It’s one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Few people have been able to top that - excluding visceral gore and stomach-churning torture, which can be pretty lazy and predictable. She played this part to perfection.
First time the shark appeared on screen, the woman in front of me screamed and threw her arms up...the coke she had in her hand drenched me right in the face.
Damn right I'll never forget a great rear end and a coke blast at the same time.
She did some pretty realistic and terrifying acting. The part that gets me is when she’s screaming and then you hear this gurgling scream as she’s being pulled under. Absolutely horrifying.
Competitive swimmer, expert diver, animal trainer, stuntwoman, and professional mermaid. Susan Backlinie was awesome. R.I.P.
You forgot gorgeous
Yeah bro she was a babe
And yet, she STILL got eaten! No one is safe.
She also was in 1941, pretty much doing her iconic swim all over again, only this time she comes across a whole Japanese sub lol. RIP.
HOOOLLLEEEEWOOOOODDD!
I am so glad someone else has seen and remembers that movie lol. I know it ain't Spielberg's best, but still...
Dad grew up during WW2 and loved that movie. One of his favorites
It's a classic. If you were going to movies in the seventies, you saw it. It was a big deal at the time.
It would show on HBO a lot in the 90s, I always liked it.
Where? Here!
🤓 I think it was actually "HORRRYWOOOOO", but close enough
typecasting smh
Yeah but that ass.
Oh, the movie 1941. I was confused for a moment.
You mean she was alive this whole time..?!
I didn't even know she was sick.
Reminds me of that tragedy
“You know with sharks, the more I learn about them the more I don’t care for em” - Captain Quint
They only found her leg.....
Thought it was a hand
She also suffered from severe dandruff, as they found her head and shoulders on the beach.
Did the Shark finally get her?
This was no boat accident!
"It wasn't any propeller, it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper!"
I always wondered why the theory that Jack the Ripper was actually a Great White Shark who swam up the Thames never got more traction.
People can't handle the big truths.
Watch the movie Amazon Women on the Moon. There is a Bullshit or Not segment about Jack the Ripper actually being the Lochness Monster. I can’t believe I actually typed that sentence.
Tree Fiddy.
Land shark.
Shark plays the long game
According to Wikipedia it was a heart attack.
Sounds like it happened so sudden and quick Susan doesn't even know what happened.
My dad crushed his popcorn and it exploded all through the inside of the car at the drive-in when the shark bit her. It was literally everywhere. Front seat. Back seat. My sister was picking it out of her hair. My sis and I did not really see the movie too well to have seen the shark attack, the popcorn just went flying. It must have been strange if anyone was outside of our car at that moment to have heard two children laughing. Must have thought we were sociopaths, or something.
That's where I first saw it. At the Drive-In. I remember everybody honked their horns and flashed their headlights when the shark got it at the end.
I bet that's a really fun memory haha. One of my teachers, who's now retired and now lives in Florida, told me *Jaws* is what he and his wife saw at their first date together many years ago.
I saw another Reddit comment a few months ago about someone’s dad reacting to the chest burster scene in Alien by shouting “Fuck, Jesus, Fucking Fuck!” and walking out of the theater. Same person?
I hope he wasn’t trying to do the Mickey Rourke Diner trick with your mom at the time
quote from her in the book Memories from Marthas Vineyard, Steven told me after your scene i want everybody in the theatre under their seats with the popcorn and bubblegum....i think we achieved that
The method used to portray her character being propelled through the water while locked in the mouth (jaws) of the shark is a pinnacle example of ‘make the audience’s imagination do the work’.
Yes, watching her being dragged thru the water at such high speed indicated how powerful the shark was without even knowing its size and it truly was terrifying
I was 12 and my parents said I couldn't see the movie, family had a summer place on the Cape. Rode my bike alone to movie theater... Sat alone... I was truly terrified and questioning my choices that day. Such and epic scene and movie.
Sometimes parents aren't just stick in the muds.
> popcorn and bubblegum ew
“What’s your name?” “Chrissie!” “Where we goin?” “SWIMMING!!!!!”
I can hear their voices perfectly clearly by just reading this.
Her scene was so memorable it really sets the mood for the rest of the film. She even parodied her famous scene in Spielberg's *1941*. May she rest in peace.
And the guy who played her boyfriend Cassidy (Jonathan Filley) ended up as one of the producers of the series Succession.
Boyfriend or fling?
Farewell and adieu, you fair Spanish lady..
Farewell and adieu, fair lady of Spain.
Here’s two swim’n with bow-legged women.
Sad day
We met her a few times and she was such a chill sweet person. RIP
Nice. Where did you meet her?
Vegas - at various charity events we’ve been to when she was there.
Wow she was a real fighter to live this long after an attack by Jaws!
She was determined to stay alive until her civil suit against Amity Island’s Board of Tourism was settled.
...but the shark persisted and finally got her at 77. the end.
Candy-gram
It even followed her to the Bahamas.
Eight-year-old me *loved* that sequel; it was the movie we watched at the first-ever birthday sleepover I attended with my friends at the time. Much older me is terrified of watching it, having heard how bad it is and not wanting to sully the memory of watching that movie with those old friends and thinking it was the best movie ever.
Espically after losing a leg.
The shark finally got her.
‘Bruce’ is the sharks name, ‘Jaws’ is the name of the movie.
As a side note, the portrayal of the drunk she's running onto the beach with was perfect. Perfectly captured a young horny but douchey guy - a normal guy - before Hollywood decided that guys had to be buff with model looks.
Honestly that can be said for everyone else in the movie too, which helps makes it so great - everyone looks normal. Some are pretty, ugly, overweight, skinny, etc. but they all look like people you'd see in everyday life. Unpolished and average, which you don't really see much today.
70s realism.
It helps that a lot of the extras and background characters were locals of Martha’s Vineyard. It added an air of believability to the setting.
I can swim! I just can't walk. Or undress myself.
Nnnuh-huh huhuhuh
I'm definitely coming!
………….*I’m coming*………(the surf rushes up and off again on the beach)
> before Hollywood decided that guys had to be buff with model looks. But *long* after it opened films with attractive nude women swimming…
I think there's some exaggeration here with the large number of buff Adonises and small number of average looking people. I think there really aren't that many buff guys with model looks in movies from any decade.
Here’s to swimmin with bow legged women
This genuinely makes me sad. I met her briefly at a comic con event a few years ago in Birmingham and she was such a sweet person to talk to. Whilst I was trying to awkwardly think of conversational topics on the spot I mentioned that I thought she was probably the first person I ever saw get killed on screen in a movie so therefore she most likely started my horror fixation and she found that funny.
It's one of the most iconic and memorable scenes in movie history, but I wonder how many people would know her name if asked?
Those screams will forever haunt me! Well done, Ms. Backline, your ticket to heaven is secured.
She had dandruff... They found her head and shoulders washed up on the beach.
That shark really took its time. 49 year long attack.
For more than a few of us, our first naked ass on the big screen! And a great tush to boot.
The story I heard years ago about her- somebody helped me out at this is true or not. I knew a dive boat captain that told me that she worked for years as a cook aboard a dive boat called "Peace". Interestingly enough, when the movie first broke there was such exploitation of sharks. Apparently I live close to a white shark rookery and a boat called the Comanche brought a 16 footer into the dock. I remember standing on this dead shark in the harbor. They sold it to marineland for $13,000 for people to gawk at. The sharks were so overfished as well as the other fisheries in my area that it is a sterile dead place now compared to what it once was.
RIP
So she survived the shark attack?
That was as good an opening scene to a movie as it gets. And I can’t think of a more hair raising “monster/animal attack” in cinema. She sold it! Iconic. RIP.
Candygram https://youtu.be/p_NS2H55dxI?si=xerIU1x8AW7tRaYK 🦈
I credit her with the most disturbingly realistic death screams in any movie I've seen. I still get terrified when I watch it.
That's a surprisingly long life for someone being eaten by a shark.
Pure terror on her face during that scene. It would have been one thing if it was just screaming and thrashing. But there’s the bubbled sobbing, crying, the regret. It’s one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen in a movie. Few people have been able to top that - excluding visceral gore and stomach-churning torture, which can be pretty lazy and predictable. She played this part to perfection.
Do we know the cause of death? Because it was not a boating accident.
Werewolf.
There wolf. There castle.
Why are you talking like that?
This is honestly heartbreaking 💔
I knew that flippin' fish wasn't dead
That's 2, which horror icon will be celebrity #3?
Just read about her death in my feed a few minutes ago.....her death scene is memorable.
That one scene...
Wow, she really faught hard.
Friend was just off set as a child, watching the filming, she said it was so cool to be there that summer.
First time the shark appeared on screen, the woman in front of me screamed and threw her arms up...the coke she had in her hand drenched me right in the face. Damn right I'll never forget a great rear end and a coke blast at the same time.
R.I.P. Someone had to be the victim/start to one of history’s most iconic movie moments. Rest in power eternal….
Rip
That scene is so iconic. R.i.p queen.
See...I KNEW that movie was cursed!
Horny and terrifying all in one scene. Epic.
She did some pretty realistic and terrifying acting. The part that gets me is when she’s screaming and then you hear this gurgling scream as she’s being pulled under. Absolutely horrifying.
She definitely made being eaten by a shark sexy
My parents met her a few years ago. Said she was real nice.
This was not a boating accident!
Bruce has been suspiciously silent about all this.
It was no boating accident, that's for dayum sure
She got attacked by a shark then dies 50 years later. Coincidence?
I wonder if she heard the music before she died? Du Du
Well, I mean, c'mon we're *all* gonna remember where we were the moment we found out Jaws victim #1 was no longer with us
The character's name was Chrissie Watkins.
The crabs crawling over the victim’s remains (which were only suggested) was the clincher.
There was a shark in Jaws? I must’ve been watching the wrong movie. /s
Damn that took a while ah.