This film is sometimes mistakenly called a sequel to
William Girdler's
Grizzly (1976), mostly because it had basically the same plot and trained bear, had the same producer, director, production company and distribution company, and featured both
Richard Jaeckel and
Christopher George, who also appeared in "Grizzly". There was also a true sequel to
Grizzly (1976) called
Grizzly II: Revenge (1983), but it originally never got properly completed and was never released in theaters and on home video until January 8, 2021. An original work print of the sequel illegally surfaced on the Internet in 2007.