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Grizzly is a Cult Classic independent "Nature Strikes Back" film from the 1970s by William Girdler (Day of the Animals, The Manitou). It's notable for ripping off Steven Spielberg's Jaws at every possible opportunity, while still managing to be some fun in its own right. In this film, a national park finds itself terrorized by an enormous, man-eating grizzly bear.Released in 1976, Grizzly was the most successful independent film made that year, raking in a shocking $30 million from a budget of $750,000. In fact, it was the most profitable independent film made up to that time until surpassed by John Carpenter's Halloween two years later.It's also worth noting that a sequel was attempted in the '80s which was never finished or released, and which seemed destined never to see the light of day. That is, until a very rough work print (without the bear footage, save for some scenes at the end using an animatronic) was thrown on the internet during the Charlie Sheen craze in 2011, due to its being one of the earliest roles for Sheen (as well as George Clooney and Laura Dern, believe it or not). Fan-edits sprang up around the net, often incorporating bear footage to fill in the gaps.Then, in 2020, the sequel (titled Grizzly II: Revenge) was finally completed thanks to the efforts of producer Suzanne Nagy, editors and some stock bear footage, trimmed down from the leaked edit's running time to just 75 minutes. The film made its premiere at L.A. Live and was slated to run in film festivals, but those plans were scuttled by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The film finally arrived digitally and in select theaters on January 8, 2021.Not to be confused with Into the Grizzly Maze, another killer bear film released in 2015 starring Billy Bob Thornton, James Marsden and Thomas Jane which was also released as Grizzly. Also not to be confused with the documentary Grizzly Man, or the Inuit lacrosse sports drama film The Grizzlies.It was given the RiffTrax treatment in 2017. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Averted. For a PG-rated film, there is a ton of blood. | |
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Don't Go in the Woods: Pretty much a given when there's a T-rex-sized bear running amok. The female ranger who decides to go off trail to soak her feet in a stream and then take a waterfall shower learns this lesson in the worst way possible. | |
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Hellish Copter: The bear attacks the helicopter in the last reel. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: While the movie mostly play it straight, this trope is brutally averted when a child is attacked by the hear and loses his entire left leg from the knee down. The actual severing of the limb isn't shown, but the child is shown falling over with most of his left leg clearly missing and the fresh stump spraying blood. | |
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Prehistoric Monster | |
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Prehistoric Monster: Played with. At one point, Scotty identifies the bear as an Ursus arctodus. Anyone caring to do the research will discover this is (at least partially) the scientific name for the giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus), which pretty much fits in terms of its hyper-carnivorous behavior. The bear's size more closely approaches the more herbivorous Ursus spelaus, or cave bear. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: Subverted. Poor little Bobby has his leg torn off by the bear, though his ultimate fate is implied to be survival. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Violence | |
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Family-Unfriendly Violence: For a film rated PG, the film contains a sizable amount of blood and limbs flying, though films in the '70s were allowed to have a moderate amount of grisly violence. | |
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Mirthless Laughter | |
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Mirthless Laughter: Follows the cub scare mentioned above. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: That poor horse. This one is Truth in Television too; bears really have decapitated large mammals with a single blow from their paw. | |
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Ultimate Job Security | |
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Ultimate Job Security: At one point, Kelly gets into a very heated argument with his boss for keeping the parks open despite the grizzly. This escalates to Kelly loudly hurling insults at his boss (harassment), shoving him back down into his chair when he attempts to stand up (assault), his boss "fires" him by saying "you are finished, dismissed, removed", only for Kelly to respond with "up yours" (disrespectful conduct), and he is ultimately allowed go about his job as if the argument and subsequent firing never happened. His boss's negligence resulting in a child's mother being killed with the child himself getting the better part of his left leg torn off by the bear likely shamed him into believing that Kelly was 100% correct to call him out in such a manner. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: One of the earliest examples in the "Killer Bear" genre, though not the first. | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Inverted, as the majority of the victims are women. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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Kill It with Fire: In the Novelization, the bear is killed with a flamethrower. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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Also, there's a truly tasteful later scene in which we get to see a 10-year-old child whose leg gets torn off. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: In a movie about a giant killer bear that's devouring everyone in its path, half of the music sounds like something you'd hear either on a National Geographic documentary or one of Disney's live action/nature films. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Kelly stares sadly at the Grizzly's burning corpse for several seconds after killing it. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The park ranger who strips to her underwear to "dip her feet" when she's searching for a man-eating grizzly bear, and Scotty. | |
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Blood from the Mouth: Helicopter pilot Don bites it with copious amounts of this as the bear hugs him to death. A young child and his mother also end up spewing up rivers of gore when the bear attacks them. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Scotty wakes up after being mauled and buried by the Grizzly, only to be killed again moments later by the same animal. | |
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Novelization | |
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Novelization: By William Collins. Noted for making far more sense than the movie, as it actually gave real reasons for why the bear started eating people. If you must know, it grew too big too fast, so its mother drove it off before it knew how to hunt or forage properly; it injured its jaw before entering the park, leaving it in serious pain; and one of the first victims was menstruating. Angry hungry bear plus clumsy human prey plus the scent of blood = massacre time. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: The first onscreen victim gets her arm knocked off by the bear before it mauls her to death. Also, there's a truly tasteful later scene in which we get to see a 10-year-old child whose leg gets torn off. | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: Played with. A group of hunters are asleep around a camp fire, we see close-ups of a bears face for the first time in the film, the camera closes in, the music builds, the hunters wake up, see it and scream... only to find that they've been paid a visit by a harmless cub. Mirthless Laughter ensues. | |
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Made of Explodium | |
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Made of Explodium: The bear is blown up by a bazooka. | |
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