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(screenplay)
- David Sheldon(screenplay)
- Andrew Prine(Indian Story) (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 financial record 2 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 Grizzly is rated PG, as was its original release in 1976. The DVD version is rated R, but there is hardly any difference between the VHS version and the DVD version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Rifftrax: Grizzly (2017)
I saw this in a theatre when I was 14 and never forgot it. At the time it (sort of) scared me. The bear itself I thought looked kind of cuddly--even when it was growling and showing its fangs. The attacks were (for a PG movie) pretty bloody and had me actually cringing in my seat! The show stoppers were when a little boy is attacked (we don't actually SEE it, but we do see half his leg torn off) and when, with a swipe of its claw, the grizzly decapitates a horse! Silly...but effective! Also there's some really beautiful scenery here (if you see it letterboxed) and a really great score.
So, this is a good gross-out movie for kids--there is a lot of blood but you don't take it seriously. As for the rest of it--the acting and characterizations are strictly by the numbers but I thought George and Andrew Prine were lots of fun. Also the dialogue is terrible and I got a good laugh out of the guy who doesn't want close the park despite the fact that people are being killed! Talk about ripping off "Jaws"! Good example of a 1970s exploitation film.
- preppy-3
- Apr 8, 2004
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- $750,000 (estimated)
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