Leofwine_draca GRIZZLY RAGE is truly one of the most execrable films I've seen. The set up is not dissimilar to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, except the overage teenagers here go riding around the woods in a remarkably sturdy jeep and fall foul of a grizzly bear rather than a supernatural witch. The stylistic similarities are few and far between, though.Everything about this film is plodding and mundane. The direction is awful, the acting straight out of drama school. There seems to be no semblance of a proper plot, just repetitive 'chase' scenes as the characters are supposedly pursued by an irate bear. The effects are a mix of tame bear footage and a guy in a furry suit and never once believable. Some cheesy gore sequences might have lifted this to appropriate B-movie level, but they never appear, and what we're left with is Z-grade garbage of the lowest level.

TheLittleSongbird I was expecting little from Grizzly Rage, as many creature movies especially if they are low-budget range from slight guilty pleasure-worthy to truly terrible. Grizzly Rage belongs in the latter, really one of the worst films I've seen recently. People are not exaggerating when they say the bear is the best actor, however that is not saying much as through it is not enough of a threat, its range of movements is very few which undermines the tension. But when I say that, it is because the other actors are so terrible, some beautiful people here but no acting talent to match it, coming across as over-earnest or non-existent, mainly the latter. The acting is not the only bad thing about it. I have seen cheaper-looking movies, as the scenery is quite nice, the only redeeming quality of the movie actually, but Grizzly Rage is choppily edited and the bear at times looks like footage out of a nature documentary. The characters are little more than annoying stereotypes that I have many times in creature films and pretty all those times it's the same effect. The bear is the one character you come close to rooting for and that's counting for very little. The actors don't have much to work with either, aside from their annoying characters, the story is far too padded out, goes nowhere too often and when there is anything happening any potential for genuine terror or suspense is wasted for attack scenes that are awkwardly shot, predictable and also contrived. The script is awful as well, stilted and very cheesy, and a lot of the time is just as turgid as the pacing in the middle of the film. All in all, really bad, I struggled to finish it although somehow I managed to. 1/10 and that is only for the scenery. Bethany Cox

jonb-29 Why should detritus like this have to have so many lines to get a review on IMDb? Other reviewers voted for the bear, I was hoping my liver would leap out of my body and thrust itself down my throat cutting off oxygen to my lungs and hence my brain. This was wrong not on "so many levels" but on all levels. This movie as far as I could bear (pun intended) to watch it stank. OK, let's start. One girl going off with three guys? not nice... Maybe if they'ld been Church-going types. Even then it's wrong. (Is this actually what the USA is like?) Moving on, they fool around in their 4wd kill a bear cub and then get hunted by the oh so predictable toxically challenged bear mom. The formulaic crash later sees them looking to repair that steamy thing at the front of the car. Not only do they bring a cooler full of empty "evian" bottles, but they don't seem to realize a 4wd means four-wheel-drive, so the "dude, our tyres spinning" line makes the idiots look like they belong in kindergarten, as they and the "people" who made this do. The bear was laughable, no, that's not true, I cried it was that bad. Did the director, producer etc put their names at the start of this? I can't remember. I'm betting they only put it at the end knowing only teenagers intent on scoring might make it to the cringing finish (sorry teenagers, but hey, if it gets you where you're going who cares! right!).Finally, even the scenery was lame.

Vomitron_G I desperately try to not watch one single David DeCoteau movie every year, yet for some reason I always seem to end up watching one of them every single year. This has been going on for some years now. I have no explanation for this phenomenon.So what about GRIZZLY RAGE? Well, the bear was good, wasn't he? The bear was a beautiful specimen. The bear was nice. Watch him roar. Watch him run. Watch him do not much else, really. I have no idea where DeCoteau got the bear footage from, as it was obviously shot on another day, somewhere else and with none of the actors & crew around. That's called stock footage. And if not, then it's lousy film-making.Once again, DeCoteau manages to poop out a movie that has absolutely nothing to offer. He gives us nothing but endlessly padded scenes with no content. Not a single remotely interesting thing is going on in this movie. Three guys and one girl in some woods with a bear out for revenge after them. Seriously, the bear wants revenge. Get even. Up close and personal. Why? Because the youngsters killed Mommy Bear's Baby Bear in a hit-and-run accident. And since Mommy Bear is a law-abiding specimen, she wants justice. So, in a way, this film is like DEATHWISH set in some forest and with a bear replacing Charles Bronson.It might also be a spin on THE TOXIC AVENGER, as the bear apparently had been drinking water polluted by toxic waste. However, that part of the plot was completely lost on me, until I read about it in another user-comment on here. It made me remember there were indeed a few barrels of toxic waste in some shots. I think this film made me very stupid all of the sudden, because I completely failed to link those toxic waste barrels to the bear. And it didn't help things that the bear just looks plain normal. It's a big one. And a beautiful one. Yes. But normal and furry. No Mutant Bear Avenger. I want to re-watch PROPHECY now.What about the killings? Well, we sometimes see a fake bear's claw hitting nothing but thin air really. And then an actor flies through the air. Then cut back to the bear going "rooaaarrr" and some CGI blood splatters on the camera-lens, and... that's it, basically. This stunt gets repeated a couple of times. Oh yes, something else: I wanted to see a crappy CGI bear and I didn't get any. Color me disappointed.Another funny thing. Why on earth did that one actor have to run around through the woods at night in his underwear? Was it because he felt like Tarzan? Or did he feel like going back to nature to go barbaric on the bear's ass? No, of course not. He was starring in a David DeCoteau movie, and that requires any hot-looking male actor to take his cloths off at some point. He ran around in his underwear, climbed up a tree and just sat there for a while. Really a profound sequence that was.What? There's no boobs in this movie? Now I'm getting mad.Forgive me if I'm not even going into the movie's plot or other details. Other people have given it their best shot already on here. But I'd like to share one more thought about this film that involves a truly puzzling aspect. Have you ever noticed in certain movies (especially cheap B-horror movies) whenever there's supposed to be a storm going on outside, those light-guys are just a tad bit too eager to push the buttons on their strobe lighting effects? A 5-minutes-long scene might have for instance like 20 lightning flashes in it. While in real life, you're even lucky if you catch about two lightning flashes during a whole rainy night. Now DeCoteau really goes way beyond this. Not just a few steps too far, but so ridiculously beyond this, that he's just gone. The last 30 minutes or so of GRIZZLY RAGE take place at night, during a storm (they actually didn't have the budget to produce rain effects either, but whatever). Now, about every 3-5 seconds, those lightning strobe-effects come on. For about 30 minutes straight, relentless and persistent. You'll be flashed out of your mind, I tell you. Seriously, I'm pretty sure DeCoteau was not at all simulating a nightly storm. I'm convinced he wanted to show audiences he had a stroboscope on the set by simply making it part of the scenery. Part of the story even. Like, "Hey look, there's pulsating lights in the woods. They just grow there. Ain't that cool?".Some movies just eat the cake, and GRIZZLY RAGE is one of them. Now, I could swear I will never watch a David DeCoteau movie again in my entire life. But chances are if someone would throw DEMON SPEED or LEECHES! at me, I'd just pop it in and watch it anyway. But not this year, I guarantee you. Next year, maybe.