If you've seen Jaws so many times that it's lost its chilling effect, here's a way to boost the fear factor way up: try watching Jaws in a lake while dangling your legs in open water. Fun, right? Also: totally terrifying, right?
The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX, along with Birth.Movies.Death [1] have dreamed up this debilitating nightmare situation [2] they're calling a "dive in," during which viewers float out into Lake Travis at Volente Beach Water Park in inner tubes and watch Steven Spielberg [3]'s shark-centric thriller projected on screen.
What's more, scuba divers skulk around in the dark water, unseen and undetected, and grab at the dangling legs of innocent movie-watchers. Soiled swim trunks ensue.
Available between June 30 and July 23, the $55 tickets [4] include the following:
- A shark-themed inner tube that is yours to keep.
- Access to the water slides, volleyball, the Lazy Lagoon, and more at the Volente Beach Water Park from 6-8:30 p.m.
- The in-lake screening of Jaws (or, depending on the night, Jaws 2, Jaws 3 in 3D, or Jaws: The Revenge).
- Plus, as the website states, "the chance to be a floating shark snack for a squad of scuba divers to scare."
Of course, there's really nothing to fear because there are no sharks in Lake Travis . . . right?