Sunday, April 6, 2025

Monster Grizzly (2023)

After some townsfolk are found dead outside their homes, investigators lean towards an animal on the loose.  Sheriff Tom calls in a bear expert and is surprised when a woman shows up. The surprise ramps up when Deputy Stony walks in and is also thrown by a woman knowing anything about bears, let alone enough to be their specialist. 

Bear expert Giuliana says it’s odd to see a bear out and about at this time of year because it should be hibernating.  The evidence shows it’s larger than your average bear. It takes most of the movie for them to put together fracking may have awoken this giant killing machine. 

This is a low budget movie with many scenes that go nowhere. Take this scene, for example:

Open on Sheriff Tom, Deputy Stony and Bear expert Giuliana sitting in a bar.  Deputy Flower enters.

Flower: Did you get a release on Auntie Winona’s body today? 
Tom: Yeah, they’re going to release the body tomorrow morning.
Flower: Tom….we need to kill this fucking bear.
Tom: Yeah
Bear expert looks awkwardly at her coffe cup
Aaaand scene.

The police station looks like they put a folding table and coffee maker in someone’s den.  The snow is mostly digital so is many storms there is no snow on their hair, hats or clothing.  And if you’re thinking the bear will surely make up for any of that, nope. The bear is only seen once in a brief blurry shot of its face moving past the camera. Mostly it’s people going outside, screaming and cut to someone finding them dead.  

Ridiculous dialogue

Only a white would be out in a blizzard like this

Giuliana: You make me feel safe.
Tom: How so?
Giuliana: You are my apex predator, grrrrr.

The paper sign for the oil company
It was harder than you’d think to find the body
The police station. There’s a couch to the left
of the folding table



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