Oh, It's All The rage, Alright.
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September 1, 2008
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.
Pretty boring
August 1, 2008
Has a great plot and could've been ALOT better, I actually dozed off once and I never do that on scary films. Grizzly Park was alot better!
Just Grin and Bear It
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June 29, 2008
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.
Wow, what a bad movie...
June 27, 2008
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.
A REAL BEAR!
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May 27, 2008
The bear in the film is not CG, i repeat they used a real trained bear. That being said i quit enjoyed the film and found it both a great horror mauler but also a very accurate image of a really pissed off bear. The cast is made up of 4 people, teenagers who break into a reserve to celibrate school gradution. High School, College, i dont know. Anyway they accidently kill a baby bear cub and unleash momma bear with a vengence. A very fun film with great special/bear effects. and as to the sci-fi channels involvment. They did not produce it, only distrubited and braodcasted it, therefor the way better quality from a studio owned by dimesion films none the less.
