It seems that there is a horror film for every holiday. Halloween has, well, Halloween, along with many others. Thanksgiving has the strange ThanksKilling movies, and soon, Eli Roth‘s Thanksgiving. Christmas has Black Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Gremlins, and more. There’s also a New Year’s Evil, Valentine, and April Fool’s Day. The list goes on and on. But as we celebrate the birth of America, what about horror films set on the Fourth of July?
There was a little slasher called Uncle Sam several years back, and Independence Day is horror adjacent, but one horror movie stands out above the rest for July 4th viewing. That, of course, is Jaws. We all know the story about a killer great white terrorizing a community during the Fourth of July holiday weekend in Steven Spielberg‘s classic. It’s a perfect movie. Still, it’s not the scariest movie to watch on the Fourth of July. That award goes to the gross-out found footage horror film from 2012, The Bay…