An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.
- Gail
- (as Vicki Johnson)
- June
- (as Catherine Rickman)
- Lone Hunter
- (as David Holt)
- Director
- Writers
- Harvey Flaxman
- David Sheldon
- Andrew Prine(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis film became the most financially successful independent film of 1976, earning $39 million worldwide at the box office and breaking several other records. Halloween (1978) broke the record two years later.
- GoofsScotty describes the grizzly bear as cannibalistic after it kills and eats the bear cub that was set out as bait for it in order to both trap and kill it, but the cub in the film is an American black bear, which is a completely separate species than the bear they are tracking.
- Quotes
Don Stober: Well, let me tell you a little story, boy. A long time ago, there was a tribe of Indians up here in these woods. They were all laying down in these parts... or something, I can't remember. Anyway, this herd of grizzlies smelt them out. They came in an' they ate them. They tore them all up. Little children, sick ones, everybody! There were few braves to go out on the hunt. They came back and them grizzlies turned on them! So there you got yourself a little situation. A whole herd of man-eating grizzlies. Just running around tearing up them Indians!
Arthur Scott: That's kind of hard to believe, Don.
Don Stober: Unless, of course, you happen to be one of them Indians!
- Alternate versionsThe U.S. VHS version of the film is rated PG, as was its original theatrical release in 1976. The DVD version of it is rated R, but there is hardly any difference between it and the VHS version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Rifftrax: Grizzly (2017)
Revisited it recently.
A national park is terrorized by a man-eating grizzly of extraordinary size but we have Christopher George who makes silly n stupid decisions.
The helicopter guy Don (Andrew Prine) dies cos of Kelly (Christopher George).
Rather than shooting the bear with a bazooka and that too safely while aerial in the copter, Kelly insisted on getting down.
Our boy Kelly wanted to be the last man standing.
For a lot of time we don't get to see the bear in action but we see people being lifted up as if some supernatural stuff is holding em.
Mr Walker whose wife gets killed while doing make up in the tent looks like Quentin Tarantino n Michael Shannon combined. Man, that guy's smile (of surely getting laid tonight) before her wife's death is so funny.
The movie has a good star cast, Christopher George, Andrew Prinen n Richard Jaeckel.
The casting of George, Prine and Jaeckel marked the second time this trio of actors starred together in the same film. They had previously played supporting roles in Chisum (1970).
While Prine n Jaeckel starred together in few films.
We have Kathy Rickman (the nurse from Deliverance), she looks amazingly hot with her tight abs in this movie but she can't act.
The scenes shot from the bear's point of view was a new gimmick in the late 70s but i didn't enjoy that trick.
The movie has zero tension n suspense.
The bear chase scenes r dull n makes no sense.
There is one waterfall bathing scene which lacked the nudity n to top it all our killer bear is hiding in the waterfall like some pervert.
- Fella_shibby
- Mar 26, 2017
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- Budget
- $750,000 (estimated)