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Grizzly Rage

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

After watching too many Syfy channel movies in a row (my Xbox is inaccessible these days), I've come to a startling conclusion. When a group of teens get in a vehicle and the idiot boyfriend tells the clueless girlfriend that she is not allowed in the passenger seat next to him, we - the actors, the characters, and the viewers - are all doomed.

I get why the writers do this - they have a limited amount of time to get the characters into a vehicle so they can promptly start dying at their monster-infested destination, and there are only so many ways you can show a frat boy being a real jerk to his girlfriend.

One way to do this is by kicking her out of the front seat. I repeat: ONE WAY. There are other ways. But shlock horror filmmakers apparently don't know any other way because this exact sequence happened in Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent. And yet Lockjaw was better than this movie.

Instead of clipping some guy's wife with a SUV like in Lockjaw, the collected idiots in Grizzly Rage run over a bear cub. This happens because they 1) decide to take an out-of-the-way path, 2) are driving like idiots while hooting and hollering, and 3) aren't paying attention to the road. Said idiots then dither uselessly trying to figure out what to do about the bear cub, knowing that mama grizzly is surely on her way for revenge. Thus the title.

There are no special effects to speak of in this film. There's no CGI, because there's nothing to animate. It's just spliced bear footage, a guy in a bear suit, actors screaming at things off camera, and unbelievably boring sequences in which the four cast members climb, walk, jog, run, and otherwise waste 80 minutes of your life you will never get back.

There is a moment in Grizzly Rage where the two remaining survivors commiserate about their plight. And, with a straight face, the female lead shares that the grizzly is hunting them as a form of punishment because she hit a parked car once and never fessed up to it. It's pretty clear that was script writer Arne Olsen's car.

Grizzly Rage has pulled off an amazing feat by convincing many reviewers that the film is about a "normal" grizzly. This is a sure sign that the reviewer didn't actually watch the film. Grizzly Rage has two different sequences involving a peculiar abandoned shack with bear traps, collars, chains, beakers, tubes, and what looks like a mutated bear claw. It's all the trappings of a mad scientist experiment except for the pink neon sign flashing "This is a Mad Scientist's Experiment." In other words, this mama grizzly, who certainly has better things to do than expend so much energy chasing people miles across the wilderness, is in fact A MUTATED BEAR. Grizzly Rage is NOT original, it is not that different, it is in fact a pedestrian mutant monster film lacking the slightest shred of originality...

Except for the abrupt ending. The ending is either a real genre-breaker or the producers ran out of money. Your opinion of Grizzly Rage's ending will probably depend on your state of inebriation. I was unfortunately sober at the time so...yeah, I'm filled with grisly rage about it.

Four annoying teens on a road trip decide to stray from their original route to go goofballing in their truck and make a....ahem....grizzly discovery. Splattering a cub with their truck starts a reign of terror as the mother grizzly goes on a rampage for revenge. Naturally the truck's broken down and the cell phones don't get reception(Isn't it great that cell phones have that weakness out in the middle of nowhere? What the hell would horror film directors do otherwise?), so it's a fight to survive out in the boonies with an angry grizzly on the prowl.
This "Maneater" series from the Sci-Fi channel isn't scoring high points with me. Grizzly Rage was rather boring. I don't mind four cast members stranded and wandering around with no action for minutes on end, but there has to be some kind of hook for a movie like this to work. Piles and piles of gore would have helped. Instead the bear tends to just throw people in the air. Since a real bear was used(thank God), there are no scenes of it actually attacking people. You see quick cuts of the bear roaring and a comic book like dash of animated blood that streaks across the screen. That would be fine if it wasn't the only trick in the director's bag.
Hell, I'm not gonna write a novel about this movie. Watch it at your own risk if you think you can....cough...cough...bear it.

im not even going to waste my time this movie sucks dont buy move on thank u

What a terrible flick. At first, I thought the movie was kind of fun. Some young people hit a bear cub with their truck, the mama bear goes after them. How can you go wrong with that scenario, you ask? Answer: Leave out the gore. All we get is a bear chasing people and, if we're lucky, throwing them a few feet through the air. If you're a rabid gore fan like me, you'll be bored to tears. Come on, guys, if you're gonna make a horror movie, make a HORROR movie! Don't gimme any of this "suspense" stuff.

Four trespassing kids, one dead bear cub, one pissed off mama grizzly--hijinks ensue. Granted, horror movies are about that certain lead character making a bad choice at some crucial part of the film that sets off a chain of increasingly gory events that usually leads to an intense climax. This film, however, is a hallmark of one bad choice after another. We'll just blame this on the writer--this has to be one of the lousiest written movies to come out in a long time. It's truly offensive how that writer somehow got away with penning this POS, and then got paid for it! Observe: these kids had obviously not one iota of wilderness experience, which didn`t stop them from going in the middle of Nowhere, Canada. Does any of them think to build a fire to ward off the angry bear, as just about every animal fears fire? When they first hit the baby bear, do they turn around and go back? Noooooooo, these pieces of work head deeper into the wilderness. And we're supposed to root for them? Then there's the bear. How does this huge bear suddenly become ninja-like and sneak around up behind some of the characters. Not only that, she's positively ubiquitous! Bottom line: don't buy or rent, but download the movie, watch it, then delete with extreme prejudice.

I cried when I watched this, no really, I was laughing so hard that tears were streaming out of my eyes. This movie posed a great opportunity for my dad and I to have a nice late night father-daughter night. Dad and I bonded extremely well as we mocked the actors skills, or lack there of rather, and the lousy "special" effects. By the time the film ended and we realized no one was going to live, I was in hysterics and my dad was disgusted that we spent 80 minutes watching this messed up film.
True, the plot might have gone somewhere had they hired actors based on (Le gasp) acting instead of their looks, Four kids, teens rather, kill a baby bear on a trip and ~BAM~ momma bear is out for revenge. I honestly wouldn't waste my money buying this, but that isn't to say it isn't worth watching for laughs. It might be a fun film to rent so you can mock it with friends. Anywho, if you buy, enjoy, if not, hope I was of help.

Grizzly Rage sounds like a great set up for a good cheesy horror movie. I mean c'mon! Are bears that smart to know the person that kills their bear cub and exact that much revenge The acting was very subpar and there were no bear maulings, just a bunch of throwing at trees and roofs. This was like a cable access movie, only it was made by the ScyFy (formerly SciFi) Network along with some Canadian film company. This film company should have their license revolked for such a piece of crap. You'll be saying, "I want 90 minutes of my life back." I recommend any movies starring Chris Robinson if you want true cheesy horror/action.

Shocked, I say, that this bear turd of a flick got 2 and a half stars on Amazon. The three dudes and one dudette exhibit consummate stupefaction by plunging into their plight, and POSITIVELY NO CREATIVITY in getting out of it. But that's OK, because the bear ain't no great shakes neither. YOU CAN'T EVEN ROOT FOR THE BEAR! That's how bad this movie is. Moral of this story: If you are an unmitigated moron, with no survival instinct, you could be chow for a big hairy beast. Worse, you might get stuck in a movie like THIS. If you are so thick that's never dawned on you, go ahead and watch this DVD. But don't say I didn't warn you.

This movie is really bad. These characters are such a bunch of morons I don't know why the bear took so long to kill them. I wish I could give it no stars.

Yeah, this is yet another one of the Man-Eaters series, which feature low budget Sci-Fi Channel originals where various wild animals go on a rampage eating people. It's also kind of a low point for the series. At least 'Man-Eater' and 'Eye of the Beast' had good acting - this one is just a straight up cheesy animal attack movie. Of course, if your the type of person would would buy or watch this movie, your probably looking more for animal attacks and bad acting than cinematic quality.

So the basic premise is that a bunch of teens go joy-riding in the back woods, hit and kill a grizzly cub, and get chased and eventually mauled by the enraged mother. The characters aren't particularly sympathetic or well developed - they seem more cardboard cut outs of your typical dumb teenagers. In fact, you'll probably find yourself rooting for the angry grizzly. Nor are the characters especially intelligent. Theres quite a few moments where I found myself laughing or questioning WHY they took a particular course of action. Of course, the plot is pretty straight forward, but even then there are a few other baffling moments. Like the mysterious (and appearantly abandoned) shack in the woods, or the random drums of toxic waste that play no part in the movie's storyline whatsoever. And the ending was seemingly random, as if they just ran out of script (or money).

But the REAL highlight of the movie comes from the bear attacks! Oh yes, they actually spent the money on having a trained bear appear in the film, but never actually with anyone else. Most of the 'attacks' involve the grizzly roaring and then close ups of a screaming victim (sometimes with animated 'claw marks' across the screen). My favorites, though, were the man in the rather unconvincing bear suit attacking their SUV (sometimes with head-butts!). All in all, this is a fairly entertaining movie, best watched with a group of your friends. It certainly didn't make me afraid of being attacked by an enraged she-bear or anything, but it was a fun movie. If you like cheesy movies, this will be right up your alley. Also consider checking out their other releases in the Man-Eaters series.