Sad that nearly all public pools and waterfronts are closed this holiday weekend?

Stay home instead to watch these worst-case beach scenarios, and be grateful you’re on dry land.

Jaws(1975)

One chomp to rule them all.

Beach Movies

Credit: Everett Collection (2); Vince Valitutti/Sony

Sometimes it’s just easier to stay home.

Besides the dead male strippers, crumbling friendships, and aggressive Jet Skis, obviously.

(Though she’s no match, of course, forJason Statham’s steely gaze.)

THE SHALLOWS

Sony Pictures

JAWS

Everett Collection

WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S

Everett Collection

roughnight2

Columbia Pictures

THE MEG

Warner Bros. Pictures

Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘The Beach’

20th Century-Fox/Getty Images

Beach BumMoondog (Matthew McConaughey)

Atsushi Nishijima/Neon

BEACHES

Everett Collection

onchesilbeach_01

Bleecker Street

THE DESCENDANTS

Merie Wallace/Searchlight Pictures

SPRING BREAKERS, women, from left: Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, Selena Gomez, 2012

Annapurna Pictures/Everett Collection