GRIZZLY (1976)
Okay, this one is going to go pretty much how you expected
it. A giant grizzly (supposedly 18 ft tall, only we never actually get a shot
in the movie showing anything remotely close to that size of a bear) is mauling
pretty much everyone he sees in a state park. The solution apparently is to get
totally plastered three sheets to the wind and start firing every weapon within
100 mile radius. Which almost always works. Of course that isn’t helping any,
and our two heroes (soon to be one hero) are facing down the bear on his own.
Which is pretty much how it works when everyone around you is stupid.
This movie is sort of like FRIDAY THE 13TH and
JAWS combined , only with a bear doing all the cheesy damage. We get some
decent acting from Joan McCall, as Allison Corwin, which is cool because she
has all the good lines in the script. After that it’s a downhill slope. Unfortunately
the more interesting scenes are very few and far between which means (outside
of Allison Corwin talking), it’s a bunch of not much going on.
The cinematography overall is pretty sloppy and the soundtrack
just doesn’t feel right. So basically this is the perfect horror flick, if you
like your slice and dice cheese horror, involving animals rather than terraformed
invincible maniacs who were victims of bullies or teen partying, and now need revenge. Overall this one doesn’t quite cut it for me
which lands it in the 3 out of 7 category. Not horrific, but not something you
need to queue up on your streaming service.
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