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>I’m making these woods a part of me! (son-of-a-bitch.)
October 15, 2010
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1976, PG
Director: William Girdler
A fifteen foot tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park.
One of the best ‘Jaws’ knockoffs out there – Grizzly aka Claws aka Killer Grizzly (This time-he’s a bear!) Christopher George plays an increasingly frustrated Roy Scheider-like Park Ranger (go-to line: Son-of-a Bitch!) who must deal with a murderous 18′ monster Grizzly on the loose in his state park. From the maniac bear POV shots as it lops off heads and limbs of bathing beauties in spurts of glorious orange blood, to the priceless dialogue (“Well let me tell you something Kittridge, while you’ve been sitting around here on your fat ass, I’m out here making these woods a part of me -while you’re going back to your brown plastic office in Warshington!”). This is one to remember.
The ranger’s antagonistic relationship with a greasy local politician furthers the ‘Jaws’ dynamic, as does the Richard Dreyfuss flair of the resident eccentric bear expert (Richard Jaeckel) who lives among the forest creatures and can think like them. And then there’s the jaded local cokehead helicopter pilot, the last friend our ranger’s got. Together, this triumvirate must put a stop to the Grizzliness as only they know how. Two paws up, girlfriend.
Categories: B-Movie, Christopher George, cinema, David Sheldon, DVD, exploitation, Grizzly, Harvey Flaxman, Richard Jaeckel, The Obsolete Sheet, video, William Girdler
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