Tag: Grizzly
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The Man-Eating Bear from This ’70s Movie Would Destroy Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear is rocking moviegoers everywhere this weekend, but long before this new coked-out beast terrorized innocent civilians, there was another living tank tearing folks up on the silver screen. We’re talkin’ 1976’s Grizzly, a supreme Jaws ripoff in every sense, but the movie rocks so hard that you stop caring. It’s exactly what you…
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‘Grizzly II: Revenge’ Review: An Infamous Abandoned Film Gets Finished … Off
After the phenomenal success of “Jaws” in 1975, there was a cash-in surge for further “nature strikes back” creature features, as mankind was successively imperiled by dogs, cats, whales, buffalo, piranha and so on. One of the most blatant of these knockoffs was William Girdler’s 1976 “Grizzly,” an undistinguished tale of hairy menace running amok…
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Werner Herzog Says ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’ is One of His Essential Films
Fitzcarraldo. Grizzly Man. Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Little Dieter Needs to Fly. These are what many cinephiles might call the essential Werner Herzog films. For anyone who saw him for the first time as an actor in The Mandalorian, were intrigued by him, learned he was also an acclaimed director, and are looking to…