Oh wait I was wrong, the helicopter does have rockets for some reason. But because Ranger Kelly is fond of the Ango-Saxon epic beowulf, he decides to land the helicopter and challenge the murder bear to personal combat.
The bear responds by spinning the landed helicopter and walking between its rotors. Ranger Kelly starts shooting it but does zero damage and it walks away from the blades to fight him.
Firing from the hip that way is, uh... Not how you're gonna save Kelly.
Oh no, bear is flying the helicopter. How can this be?
the bear is so cute
he cast Ultima on the bear :D :D :D #Monsterdon
Chop chop chop lil chopper!
A lot of computers hunt salmon and sleep through winter, it's true
NGL I get angry when my dinner wakes up too. #Monsterdon
Oh wait, but as he was waking up the bear comes back so it roars at him and kills him for real. plot twist averted. Ranger Kelly and Helicopter Guy come up on his body and decide to bury him.
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@flowerpot Thank God - this film is total crap
Okay, so on the way to meet Ranger Kelly, Aragorn's horse is somehow decapitated by the Murder Bear with one swipe, and then the bear murders him too and start badly burying him. Then we discover he was not really dead but just unconscious, so he wakes up.
That's how I look after filing my taxes. #monsterdon
@jonny he ran out of women and had to start eating men with small penises #monsterdon
Wait why does this bear have lightsaber paws that can just rip the head off of a horse with one swipe?
The bear just made an offer that Scottie can't refuse
did we ever figure out why the bear only eats women or what was the deal with that, they even said it onscreen a bunch of times #monsterdon
Helicopter Guy and Ranger Kelly decided to camp in the woods by their helicopter; shockingly they did this and were not attacked by the Murder Bear. Meanwhile, Aragorn is riding around the woods; eventually he finds a partially eaten deer that was probably the one Ranger Kelly left out as a trap.
He calls Ranger Kelly and they have... yet another 70s guy pissing match for no reason. Eventually they decide to meet somewhere in the woods to... um... hunt bears.
"I'm gonna check for the bear near the 12th green."
#monsterdon
The actor who played Scott was in Dirty Dozen. I thought I'd seen him somewhere
He's doing the Family Guy death pose :P #Monsterdon
The bear will never leave if you keep providing it food. #monsterdon
My favorite part of this movie is that it has lots of trees in it. #monsterdon
extra close up of a pine - possibly my favorite shot so far. #TreeAppreciator
That might be first time we've watched a 70s movie and I've thought to myself, "wow, cool zoom" but the camerawork here on the first watch was pretty good IMO? Not fancy, but well-done.
@LGS I think we should make #Trump watch this movie so he thinks that we need the park rangers back to protect us from the Grizzly Threat. #USPol #Monsterdon
"This bear's boots were made in the Strand!"
Our deer carcass plan almost works, but the bear notices the rangers at the last minute and it runs away, and they fail to shoot it.
We now have a Man Vs Bear chase scene where the grizzly is running followed by Ranger Kelly and Helicopter Guy. The grizzly escapes to safety by crossing a river, somehow confusing his pursuers.
Vintage denim on the run
still processing that this 1976 movie had the balls to show a kid kill
it was a really big deal back then, not that it's any less uncommon these days! hell of a dismemberment
Reminder that I am bored by most of the park ranger dialog so I may not be a reliable reporter of the park ranger's latest anti-bear plans.
But, I guess this one involves taking a helicopter to the woods and putting up a dear carcass as bait and then lurking.
@athena_rising a fine ursine
T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. #monsterdon
Wait, if this bear is 2000-3000 lbs, would a 0.30-06 be what you want?
Joke's on them, bear steals the helicopter while they're fighting with the deer carcus and flys into town!
It's pretty easy to get over PTSD, in 1976
(is that an actual dead deer, by the way? is that listed in trigger warnings, coz i know some people who'd be turning this off right about now...)
We have decided to use a helicopter to hunt the bear, I think, so Ranger Kelly and the Helicopter Guy start loading up the helicopter with supplies. Helicopter Guy tells a story about how he killed people (hopefully soldiers and not civilians) in Vietnam and called them "gooks" so it wouldn't get personal, but it got personal and gave him a trauma.
Meanwhile Aragorn has run off on a horse to do his own thing, probably try to tranquilize the bear.
that is so extremely not a grizzly
When is Fat Bear Month?
#monsterdon The RUSes? I doubt they exist. RAWR!
Great, now the bears is going to attack the helicopter. THAT would be fun!
#monsterdon
[x] slur π¬
But it's somehow also trying to be thoughtful. Not sure it's worth the effort
The real life tame bear does not seem like the monster the movie calls him out to be.
Bless him.
Oh did I get ahead somehow? Or is the main stream just slow? Have commercials hit the movie watching masses?
#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976
One Appalachian Possum-mom and chubby blond kid for a snack
#monsterdon
Ah, now we're bating the bear with human cubs. Clever! #Monsterdon
Carnival open?
Yes.
Everybody coming?
Yes.
#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976
This guy really tried to go for a freaking Oscar. I hope "Up... yours" was in his highlight reel. #monsterdon
Uh-oh, he'll have to turn in his forest ranger badge
This is what you get for being a ranger on the edge (of the forest)
@SordidAmok To be fair, a WW2 rifle is as old in 1976 as a G-36 is in 2025.
His rifle is from WWII
Ranger Horse grabbed an M1 rifle and tried to shoot the bear, but because everyone who grabs a gun in this movie has to drop it, he drops it. Then the bear knocks over his watch tower and mauls him. RIP Ranger Horse.
This scene reminded me of the MS-DOS strategy game Warcraft II, where your orcs could knock over watch towers by hitting them. Only instead of orcs, there was a bear.
"He's not listening to you, Kelly. Because you're a maverick. And he knows it."
The filming location is Clayton, Georgia, USA. I've spent a bit of time in Georgia, but didn't see landscape like that. More mountainous than I realized. Nice.
I note that the bear didn't even bother to eat the guy in the watchtower after pulling it down
Like, he's clearly just showing off now
Conventional weapons are useless against Bear!
#monsterdon
Aww he's waving. Hello. π
#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976
1100 men went into that forest. Only 317 came out.
#monsterdon
Meanwhile on the #BearFeed the bears are just chilling with some ducks
People killed by bear in this #monsterdon so far:
Flannel Girl
Bikini-Shirt Girl
Makeup Girl
(Non-Murder) Bear Cub
From the current rate, I predict 4 more bear murders, plus or minus 20.
"A herd of grizzly" BRO WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? #Monsterdon
Clearly the bear has drone technology
That grizzly is definitely going to eat the war party.
Why are you hugging that wild bear cub that came into your camp at night?
How dumb are you idiots? Were you drinking moonshine from a cursed still?
#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976
Since we had the angry park ranger scene, we get another Bear scene, where a grunting bear sneaks up on some sleeping hunters. But it is not the Murder Bear, it is simply a normal bear, and a baby. not all bears are murder bears. #notAllBears
Because they are jerks, the hunters decide to use the bear as live bait, and its gets eaten. RIP baby bear.
#monsterdon The bear leaves a sign on a tree. 'Ho ho ho now I have a rifle'
The friendly bear gives bingo #Monsterdon
These men utterly deserve the mauling coming to them...
When I was a little kid I would've given my entire He-Man collection for one of those - what are they - the open top Suburbans? I loved those things
Kelly: "Now you listen to me. While you've been sitting there on your fat ass, I made this forest part of me. I made sweet love to every inch of this forest. There's not a single tree that hasn't enjoyed the touch of my gentle caress."
I want to pet the belly.
#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976
It's the bear's forest, Kelly
For the next montage, a bunch of unorganized militia (random hunter dudes) have arrived to try to hunt the bear. They are more numerous than I'd expect, as they have at least a squad worth of riflemen.
But they failed to do the buddy system and so one of them, named Orange Hat Man, runs off on his own; he sees the murder bear but drops his gun and runs away, dunking into the water and floating down river.
His rifle is from WWI
you cant blame a bear if everyone out here has never had a wilderness survival course and tries to outrun a bear #monsterdon
I can't believe the bear is chasing him. I mean he didn't even take his clothes off yet. #monsterdon
The hunter becomes the hunted?
"NO, HUNTING!"
#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976
Bear is just chewing the scenery
#monsterdon The best way to hunt is with a bunch of hunters all within fifty feet of each-other and shouting at the top of their lungs.
The Bear Movie Cycle:
A pretty girl does something
Murder Bear kills the pretty girl
Everyone Screams
The Park Rangers have an angry conversation about the Murder Bear
Montage of people doing outdoors things.
(cycle repeats)
I love how the bear kills that last lady, and she's doing that whole βflying lady" thing like she's leaning over the front of the Titanic or something. LOL!
@Taweret This "grizzly" is 2x the weight of a typical Kodiak(!)
@diazona It's doing it for political reasons
Pretty sure the bear isn't killing for food anymore, it's just trolling
Schlitz was the hillbilly movie beer in the 1970s
I hear β Cricket Sounds!
#monsterdon Gay bears are not this dangerous. We only hurt peoples arms when they try to lure us onto dangerous amusement park rides. Rawr! LOL
A lot of people don't know this but Grizzly was controversial because the bear was actually played by a shark.
#monsterdon Don't chew on ice cubes! You'll crack a tooth!
They need to put up a 'check waterfall cave for grizzly bears before entering' sign at the very least. #monsterdon
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
π»π©Έ TRIVIA BEAR π»π±
Ranger Gail, who gets fully undressed before "soaking her legs" searching for a killer bear, was unsurprisingly August 1976 Penthouse Pet of the Month and 1977 Penthouse Pet of the Year. So in Bear parlance, "nuggets".
Oh how unBEARable #monsterdon
#monsterdon LOL at the tinkerbell chimes on the bloody water. Who chose that sound effect?
