Jaws Archives - Desperate Living

The rise and fall of 3D cinema and TV in the 1980s, when the gimmick stumbled and failed as dramatically as it had three decades earlier.

Our latest collection of video features from our YouTube channel covers everything from banned books to Disney novelties.

The simple pleasures of an underrated 1970s demonic horror oddity.

A great British comic strip returns in a collected volume of the original stories.

An ongoing love affair with the first summer blockbuster.

The strange world of movie tie-in breakfast cereal and its recent movie into the nostalgia market.

The indie director’s two Nature Gone Wild movies are more interesting than people would have you believe.

Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, and the Richard Matheson short story that it is based on, remain masterclasses in paranoid terror.

The host of 3-2-1 battles killer sharks on a comedy record.

A gallery of covers from the glory days of 1970s eco-horror pulp fiction.