I wonder how this film really feels about women. #Monsterdon

"I really don't care."

I'm just that horny. #Monsterdon

He knows every bear personally, he's like a Stonewall phone book. #Monsterdon

Be pretty cool if the grizzly went on a rampage in Manhatten

#monsterdon

...I joke but I kind of expect that will happen eventually. #Monsterdon

campers running in fear of their lives?
not Tokyo, but ok
#monsterdon

...So the pastoral soundtrack for this panicked evacuation is...? #Monsterdon

@nev holy shit bear feed rules. #monsterdon everyone open a second tab to bear feed

“I want that bear arrested and tried for murder!”
#monsterdon

We next have an autopsy scene, where Doctor Mustache theorizes that the campers found a bear cub, got too close to it, and then this made the bear mother mad, and she murdered them.

This hypothesis is wrong, but there is no way for Doctor Mustache to know that we are actually dealing with a Fearsome Murder Bear.

#monsterdon

Jaws came out the year before and was a huge hit. This is a low budget attempt to ride the big scary animal trend

#monsterdon

It wasn't a bear it was just a serial killer. No cause for alarm. #monsterdon

"Why the hell wasn't I notified!?"

...And YOU are??? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Grizzly When my Dad was a mortician in Anchorage, one of his "clients" was a guy who had been backhanded by a brown bear. Just stood up out of a berry patch & smacked him, no claws. The front of his skull detached along the sutures and moved a couple of inches to the side. 🤢

Meanwhile the other park rangers are doing a thorough search for the other missing person, like one of the ones where you get like a squad of guys to comb the woods. Anyway, they didn't find the body yet and its night time. Ranger Girl is searching for places to take photos at, even though its at night. I guess she has a night camera or something.

Anyway, then she trips on mud and lands on the Flannel Girl's body, then screams in Abject Shock.

#monsterdon

Has he bear-i-caded himself inside the shack? #Monsterdon

Next favorite part: they're not dicking around with a lot of in-between stuff. Time jumps from the murder to the search to the discovery of the body to the bear-hunting posse. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon we thought the Grizzly tore down the whole shack, but apparently it only broke the 4th wall.

Need the Hulk to throw that bear around. #Monsterdon

"remember, we're probably not looking for a full body"

Captain Optimism there

#Monsterdon

Who wins?

#Monsterdon #Grizzly

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the best picture statue at the 1976 academy awards, #monsterdon

Bears often store their kills in the rafters

#Monsterdon

What story does this face tell?

The story of an actor who never got another gig.
#monsterdon

Given that you're paying for film, wouldn't you want to be really careful with your shots compared with us in the digital era?

#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976

What story does this face tell ya?

Lung cancer.
#monsterdon

Lol swiped her arm clean off!! Welp

#Monsterdon

that scene was hilarious, and nothing can make me think otherwise.

#monsterdon

Ah yes, the notoriously stealthy grizzly bear. #Monsterdon

Next, the girls have decided to go camping because this is a park; and I think the Ranger Girl is in flannel because she's a lumberjack and/or bisexual.

Something startles them, and the audience expects it to be a monster, but its actually the ranger whose name I don't care about, who is riding them a horse and telling them to be careful. Thanks Ranger-Forgot-Your-Name! That's good advice in a horror movie!

#monsterdon

Dad you can't just keep giving away wine and dressing like a transparency layer

#Monsterdon

god I LOVE 70s dialogue. Before the horror hits, they signal normalcy by everyone being nice to each other. Today it's always F words. For those of us with foul fucking mouths. #Monsterdon

lol, I can't wait for these people to be eaten

#Monsterdon

When did they start casting attractive people in movies? Clearly it was after this. #monsterdon

@Taweret Maybe it was on sale? #monsterdon

@Taweret The energy crises. OPEC cut off the supply of white letters #Monsterdon

sex people

#Monsterdon

Not a bad horn, good starter horn... #Monsterdon

Why does this intro look and sound like the start to the Bob Newhart show, but one where he slaughters his guests?

#monsterdon

Look the helicopter was really expensive so we're gonna use the fuuuuuck out of the footage from it. #monsterdon

I am putting Grizzly on but once again I am still in the middle of all the crap I can only get done on the weekends (working tomorrow, of course).

With you in spirit! 🐻

#Monsterdon

Film Ventures International! We sell peaches by the side of the road, too

apparently

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon #WrongGrizzly

I kinda like their hair extensions tho

#monsterdon #WrongGrizzly

Their music is what drove the grizzly insane.

#monsterdon #WrongGrizzly

Why are bands rehearsing while the stage is still being built?
#grizzly2 #monsterdon

@LuluHelle @klu9 Hungary Hungary bears #Monsterdon #Grizzly2

#grizzly2 #monsterdon

That thing about the park ranger's wife in Yellowstone in 1978 or so was true. She was attacked by a bear while jogging, and they just let people right on in. I remember somebody saying she was menstruating and the bear smelled blood, but I don't know if that was true.

#monsterdon

What? The photographer actress, who disappeared was a screen writer for a ton of soaps, plus "She co-authored with David Sheldon the sequel to "Grizzly", which was filmed in Europe with George Clooney, Laura Dern, Deborah Raffin, Louise Fletcher, John Rhys Davies, Steve Inwood, Deborah Foreman, and Charlie Sheen. The production was not completed and the existing footage was pieced together crudely and released in 2020." Heck! #Monsterdon

@diazona it's actually in a fetish club, you'll be managing the emotional needs of some very hairy men. #Monsterdon

As much as I want to do Day Of The Animals, I'll be voting for Food Of The Gods because I think it's about aliens eating people, and I need a break from animal horror. We've done a lot of it this summer

#monsterdon

The photographer lady was like a main character in the first few scenes, but then they dropped her like a hot potato half way through.

No Bechdel test win here.

#monsterdon

You know, the worst part of this movie is that the bear didn't eat that jackass politician.

#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976

@floatybirb I blame Disney

#Monsterdon

working on an ethics application on Monday morning while seeing the Sunday night vibes of #monsterdon come through the fedi is enough to induce jet lag without even having to travel 🤣

They really left us hanging about the bunny.

#monsterdon

Grizzly 2 was filmed in 1983 but not released until 2020
#monsterdon #grizzly2

One last post: Grizzly 2 looks AMAZING and I would never have known it existed if not for #monsterdon. I wonder if SBIG has ever done this one. ...and now I want a beer.

@ottaross I find your suspicion extremely plausible. #monsterdon

Someday they will invent the denouement. But not this night.

Well that was certainly a movie about a normal bear! The amount that was done through offscreen/POV work was HILARIOUS. 😂 Goodnight #monsterdon and thanks to @Taweret for hosting and @ryan for streaming so I don't have to be neurotic about time syncing!

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

❤️ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this baery beary good treat!

🅱️ and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! "Sympathy for the bear"? More like #TeamBear

🦖And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Some missed because my instance choked on the tootstream tonight! I choked laughing at all the funny!!

Well that was pretty un-bear-able

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! See y'all next week! (or stick around for Grizzly II on @miru)

#Monsterdon

@cargot_robbie we’ll keep the light on for you #Monsterdon

@SordidAmok that's what they said about that whale in oregon too

i'm telling you

two minutes 'til bearfat rain

#monsterdon #Grizzly1976

Wait, I thought there was going to be an investigation when this was all over.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the sequel is 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Don has to pay for his war crimes

#monsterdon

#monsterdon That's how you're going to end it?

Nobody did anything clever.
None of the side plots were resolved.
Even the romances didn't go anywhere.

They just shot at the bear until they hit the one and a half hour mark.

Fun times with the #monsterdon crew!

Post credits scene shows the bear's nest, and the clutch of eggs it laid. One begins to hatch. #monsterdon

Well I was right about racist-slur-guy dying, at least. Weird that his insides were made of red paint. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976 yeah that chopper's toast man. i guess i got my wish sorta? the bear *did* disable the helicopter :D

FInal results:

Bear 9.75, people 1.5

Bear got 0.25 for little Bobby's leg.
Bear got 0.5 for bear cub.

People got 0.5 for providing bear cub to bear.

#monsterdon

Lost opportunity for the bear to put on sunglasses and saunter away from the explosion

#Monsterdon

That bear exploded like the fricking Death Star. #monsterdon

why did the most annoying person in the entire movie survive?

#monsterdon

It was a "Jaws" ending afterall.
#Monsterdon

And that is how the Bear Fire destroyed a million acres
#monsterdon

There's no .50 cal on that chopper so Don really doesn't know what he's doing

#monsterdon

oh

my

fucking

gods

WHAT the FUCK was that insert HOLY SHIT

#monsterdon #Grizzly1976

The bear 'sploded

#monsterdon

RPG'd the bear so hard he vaporized into SOME OTHER SCENE

#monsterdon

WHY THE FUCK HE HAS A ROCKET LAUNCHER
the fuck kinda rangers these guys?????
#monsterdon

[sad harmonica sounds]

#monsterdon

Can we choose a season and stay with it?

#monsterdon

What was that movie that was basically the same as this except they were skiing?

#monsterdon

Napalm strike, damn it. #Monsterdon

firing a rocket launcher from a helicopter would be incredibly dangerous, how did that guy survive 'nam

#monsterdon

rocket????
what???
#monsterdon

Or you could pick him up with your helicopter

#monsterdon

We go back to our helicopter and spot the Murder Bear, we decide that it was "programmed like a damned computer" and also that it was returning to the scene of its crimes for unclear reasons.

We start strafing it with the helicopter, but the helicopter doesn't have guns or rockets or other fun helicopter murder toys. We lose the bear and then find it again.

#monsterdon

Oh good. He's dead

#monsterdon

NO I'm naming the helicopter Frederick. You can't kill it now, bear, it has a name.

#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976

they're going to drive the helicopter into the bear....in Jaws the shark took out the boat, so here the bear will......

yep, there it is.

#Monsterdon

All choppers are bear food

#monsterdon

"Yeaaah I don't need another 'we're not so different' speech, I get a lot of those"

#monsterdon #Grizzly1976

Ah shit. He's gonna survive

#monsterdon

This Grissly is... smarter than the average bear.

#Monsterdon #Grissly1976

Damn, Scotty's having a real bad day #Monsterdon