"Jaws" set the template for many subsequent horror films, to the extent that the script for Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction film "Alien" was pitched to studio executives as ""Jaws" in space".Many films based on man-eating animals, usually aquatic, were released through the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Orca", "Grizzly", "", "Barracuda", "Alligator", "Day of the Animals", "Tintorera", and "Eaten Alive".