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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 18, 2018 15:52:13 GMT
I know I saw Grizzly long ago, so long ago that I forgot everything that was going to happen. This is an obvious homage/ripoff of Jaws, possibly the first of its type, coming just a year after that shark movie, the lead characters are hardly disguised at all. But this movie has some great kills, most of them unexpectedly horrific, not expecting that from this movie. This original movie poster was done by 70's Batman comic book artist Neal Adams. It's got its flaws, such as the sequence where the bear destroys a cabin in order to kill a very bad actress. Not long after, the body is found, and the cabin is intact. Apparently, this bear wanted to cover its tracks. But overall, this is a very entertaining 70's killer bear movie, although missing some suspense of later killer bear movies like The Edge or Backcountry. I especially thought the ending, where the bear is killed with a bazooka and explodes, to be pretty kickass, especially considering it was only 1976.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 18, 2018 16:10:22 GMT
Yeah this was a pretty good "Mother Nature on the rampage" horror flick. There certainly were some grisly kills, surprisingly graphic for a PG-rated movie.
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Post by simest on Jun 18, 2018 16:37:15 GMT
Working on tiny budgets, young director William Girdler gave us several lively shockers during his tragically cut short career.
I genuinely believe he could have been a major force in movies had he lived to the point where his career matured and bigger budgets came his way.
Sadly, fate intervened and we'll never know how much we've missed out from his lost talent.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 18, 2018 16:42:56 GMT
Working on tiny budgets, young director William Girdler gave us several lively shockers during his tragically cut short career. I genuinely believe he could have been a major force in movies had he lived to the point where his career matured and bigger budgets came his way. Sadly, fate intervened and we'll never know how much we've missed out from his lost talent. I see from his filmography he also made Day of the Animals (1977) with Richard Jaeckel, I want to see that. He had to sue the producer of Grizzly in order to get paid, the guy ran off and fled the country with the profits after its unexpected success. What a douche move!
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 19, 2018 3:50:32 GMT
In a review, I gave back when IMDb still had boards I gave this an 8/10. I REALLY liked it.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jun 19, 2018 11:00:13 GMT
"Bears don't eat people!"
Started up a thread of this little gem last summer or so and it is always nice to see that other horror fans also seem to appreciate this enjoyable b-movie creature feature film, as I think it surely stands among the better Jaws rip-offs of that era.
I remember picking up the awesome looking DVD (released by Shriek Show) back in, I think 2006 and was taken back at how fun the film was. Have not seen it for a while but i do think it featured a surprising scene in where the bear actually ends up ripping or biting a little red haired kids arm right off but of course I might be mistaken.
It might not be as gory or packed with action/horror scenes, but it had some solid actors in the leading roles and the locations which it was filmed at was very beautiful and helped out by much with an adventurous film score.
Grizzly along with Tentacles (1977), Rats (1984), Last Jaws (1981), Day of the Animals (1977) and Wild Beasts (1984) was all released again in scandinavia as part of a two DVD volume animal killer edition. Having seen and owning all of them, I tink Grizzly, Rats and Day of The Animals are the best ones, while Tentacles was almost unwatchable and extremely dull, even with a very impressive cast.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 11:44:16 GMT
Saw it at the pictures when I was a wean.
Loved it, apart from the end.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 19, 2018 12:20:32 GMT
stefancrosscoe There is a shocking child attack alright, actually, I think they mention that he survived.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 19, 2018 15:50:08 GMT
That's a cool poster but man this was a lame movie.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jun 19, 2018 16:13:03 GMT
Fun, gory b-flick but really hard to ...bear... all the bad acting.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 19, 2018 17:39:15 GMT
Almost a scene for scene rip off of Jaws. But a very well done rip off, to the point where it is quite enjoyable to watch.
Here's a question. My older brother saw it in theater and I didn't. When we watched it together on TV some time later, he said that they had added additional footage of the bear. He said that in the theatrical release you did not see the bear at all until near the end of the movie. Up until that all you saw was the bear's eye view of it moving through the woods and stalking his prey and the occasional arm swiping a victim. Does anyone know if this is true and they added additional bear shots to post cinematic versions of the film?
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 23, 2018 17:05:40 GMT
That's a cool poster but man this was a lame movie. Just like nearly every movie poster from the 70's, it over-exaggerates what is in the actual movie. First the bear is 18 feet tall, then the poster and the bottom of my post makes it 15 feet.
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