The biggest issue is that they never shot any footage of the mechanical bear and they ran out of money, so it just sat on a shelf for almost 40 years, unfinished. Not good! An abandoned film with Charlie Sheen, George Clooney and Laura Dern. The original Grizzly is a top-notch Jaws ripoff, but holy jeez this one ain't it. Louise Fletcher=Murray Hamilton, gruff mountain man John Rhys Davies=Robert Shaw, etc. My experiences on the cult horror movie Grizzly II: The Predator -- AKA Grizzly II: The Concert-- were strange to say the least, but it was a memorable time. GRIZZLY II has a, what else, grizzly eating people just as a State Park is about to hold a major concert. Synopsis. For some reason the movie he really wanted to talk about was an unfinished film called Grizzly II: The Concert. GRIZZLY 2: IN WHICH THE GRIZZLY DID NOT GET A TICKET TO THE CONCERT, SO IT HANGS OUT ON THE SIDES TO GET KILLED. GRIZZLY 2: THE PREDATOR (1983) by Fred Adelman (Please note that this review is based on the rough workprint.) Poachers are hunting for grizzlies and one of the poachers end up killing a cub and wounding its mother. It shows the cub of our grizzly being shot which starts off his rampage.…. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. It's a gem of a stinker. That said, it does have some pretty fun qualities to it, especially from John Rhys Davis as a mountain man bear trapper, delivering lines like “you got the devil bear...” I have a lot of respect for producer Suzanne Nagy for sticking with it and actually seeing it finished. Filmed in 1983, the movie never saw a proper release. A serial killer with a rubber-like Freddy Krueger mask terrifies the city of Virginia Beach. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. The editing is choppy in parts, there’s no actual bear/killing footage and the top billed stars (Clooney, Dern and Sheen) eat it in the first scene. When Lt. Artemis and her loyal soldiers are transported to a new world, they engage in a desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers. The opening scene is new footage in HD quality...not even trying to look like a movie from the 80s. Search for "Grizzly II: Revenge" on Amazon.com, Title: There is the main problem here. Doch dann beginnt der richtige Horror erst: unbekannte New Wave-Bands, Spice Girls/Bananarama-Verschnitte, die einfach nicht aufhören wollen zu singen, tanzen, jaulen, rumzuhüpfen und lyrische Höhepunkte wie „you take the milk from the coconut“ vortragen.Die Vorbereitungen und das Festival nehmen locker 50-70% des Filmes ein, die Grizzly-attacken sind spärlichst (POV,…. We've curated a list of romances that break free of the typical fare of humans falling in love. The movie was never finished and now 37 years later its finally been finished. Why?! Well, the movie has finally been released officially and the result is a real head scratcher. Pretty much everything new added to 'complete' the film was a mistake, leftfield moments of Birdemic totally out of place in what was a bad but oddly star-studded and nicely-shot cheap early 80s eco-horror film (George Clooney, Laura Dern, Charlie Sheen, Louise Fletcher, John Rhys-Davies). This is the official sequel to my infamous list: letterboxd.com/toshio/list/all-nighter-watchlist/ Use random.org to find what to watch. An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day. But that’s about to change! -----Workprint Version (aka Grizzly II: The Concert or Grizzly II: The Predator)-----, If you've heard the lore surrounding Grizzly II, it probably centered on the cast, particularly the young trio playing campers: George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen. The editing is all over the place - the last scene is a jumbled mess that feels like experimental cinema more than a killer animal movie’s climax - but that’s understandable due to the fact that the movie was never completely finished being shot.…, So if you dont know about this flick, this was the sequel to the great 70s flick GRIZZLY. Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Derncast. The biggest annoyance is that there is only ONE added scene that actually needed to be in the movie. While the park ranger and his girlfriend pursue the bear and debate its proper fate, a group of poachers attempt to trap it themselves. Hard to judge it too harshly, fitfully entertaining, and simply good to have. It's just all padding to get us to that 80 minute mark, hell or high water. Watch for the ProtoSpice Girls!!!! Hey, it ain't great but it's entertaining as hell. Synopsis. View production, box office, & company info, ‘Grizzly II: Revenge’ Review: An Infamous Abandoned Film Gets Finished … Off, Grizzly II review: long-lost George Clooney horror is truly unbearable, Trap Goes “Snap” in Our Exclusive Clip from 37-Years-in-the-Making Grizzly II: Revenge, Unauthorized Remakes, Adaptations, Sequels and Cash-Ins. There are many creature features with strange and/or questionable origins but none are more elusive than the unfinished and unreleased killer bear movie, Predator: The Concert, or as it is known informally, Grizzly 2. 1983Directed by André Szöts. It was the largest gathering in Hungary, since the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Not to mention the soundtrack they chose... Why they allowed this company to do the restoration of this movie is beyond me. A big ol OOF but at least John Rhys-Davies is there chewing up the scenery like none other and it has a truly astounding climax. (1983). You all know the story behind his one: Made in the 80s, had to shut down production, and... Yea. Yes, there was an unreleased sequel to Grizzly in case you were wondering. When a park ranger claims a 15-foot grizzly bear is killing people within a national park, all hell breaks loose after authority figures refuse to step in and cancel a big rock concert scheduled to take place there. English language horror only, although a few foreign films may have slipped in. A surfer enjoys life with drug money together with his gang in 1980s California. The only podcast completely devoted to the works of actress Laura Dern. They didn't even try to age the new footage that was clearly shot on an iPhone. In Yellowstone National Park, grizzlies and other wildlife roam free while the park is preparing for a major rock concert to be held in 3 days. Take a look back at the talented actors and actresses who took home a Golden Globe for Best Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama since the category was created in 1951. Cannon Films picked it up in '87 in hopes of finishing it but even they couldn't salvage the beast. Hunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. It is a sequel to the 1976 film Grizzly that was directed by William Girdler and David Sheldon. A list that is trying to contain every horror film made that is not lost and is found on the…, Rocky LaForge 18,756 films 2,512 59 Edit, Andrew Liverod 11,869 films 539 17 Edit. Mit Stars wie Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, Laura Dern, Louise Fletcher, Andrew Prine usw., die schneller verschwinden, als man ihren Namen aussprechen kann, weiters mit John Rhys Davies als Forest Warrior , peinlicher hat man ihn noch nie gesehen, und natürlich unser Titelheld, der aber erst im Finale kurz reinschauen darf. My buddy Matt Hill is a GRIZZLY fanatic and was telling me how they filmed a sequel like...decades ago but never finished it when the investors pulled out or someone stole the production money, so I was interested to see this. Probably the biggest coup of GRIZZLY II is the…. I played the robotic mime drummer of the film's electronica band. To give credit, Susan Nagy is an absolute madlass for finally finishing it, Laura Dern is hella cute in it and there's some solid acting turns in it, but as a finished product? Can he quit the drugs, the gang and that last big deal? Mobile site. The movie’s limbo status was due to a multitude of issues involving bankrupt producers, international espionage and the unauthorized use of Michael Jackson songs on the soundtrack. Writer, podcaster, and site runner Zack has truly done it all. The owner (Fletcher) refuses to alert the media about the bear fearing it won't sell tickets so she demands the lid be put on it. The Concert) is an American action thriller horror film directed by André Szöts. We're starting the podcast with an amazing guest Zack Long. Feature film based on the video game by Capcom. Well they sort of finished it thanks to some ridiculous bear stock footage and lots of uncreative thinking. The Grizzly II: Revenge story revolves around a menacing 15-ft grizzly bear who reacts to the slaughter of her cub by killing anyone that gets in her way. Grizzly II: The Concert. The Stage Is Set…. When a park ranger claims a 15-foot grizzly bear is killing people within a national park, all hell breaks loose after authority figures refuse to step in and cancel a big rock concert scheduled to take place there. A redneck goes missing in the woods. The bear attack scenes don't actually have footage of a bear because the animatronic one built for the film was deemed too ridiculous and scrapped. Revenge, also known as Grizzly II: The Predator and Grizzly II. They are dispatched early and are by no means the only attraction of this long-unfinished (and, aside from producer/writer David Sheldon, unrelated) sequel to William Girdler's Grizzly. I never thought this movie would see the light of day. Grizzly (also known as Killer Grizzly on U.S. television) is a 1976 American horror thriller film directed by William Girdler, about a park ranger's attempts to halt the wild rampage of an 18 ft (5.5 m) tall, 2,000 lb (0.91 t) man-eating grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest, having developed a taste for human flesh.However, a drunken hunting party complicates matters. Last month, I interviewed David Sheldon, the writer/ producer of Grizzly and Grizzly 2, and you can read that article here. George Clooney Laura Dern Charlie Sheen Louise Fletcher John Rhys-Davies Steve Inwood Dick Anthony Williams Deborah Raffin Edward Meeks Deborah Foreman Billy Boyle Ian McNeice Charles Cyphers Marc Alaimo Jack Starrett Timothy Spall Barbie Wilde, Grizzly II: The Predator, Grizzly 2: The Predator, Grizzly II: El depredador, Predator: The Concert, Grizzly 2: The Concert, Grizzly II: The Concert, 74 mins Grizzly II is the sequel to the 1976 Jaws ripoff Grizzly. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. When a park ranger claims a 15-foot grizzly bear is killing people within a national park, all hell breaks loose after authority figures refuse to step in and cancel a big rock concert scheduled to take place there. Grizzly II: The Concert. I enjoyed the original GRIZZLY a lot, it was a TV staple back in the late 70's and 80's---basically a JAWS ripoff with a Grizzly in the park instead of a shark in the ocean. 18 of 18 found this interesting After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding. You'd hear rumors about it for years. Grizzly II: Revenge TMDb Several years after the filming fell apart, executive producer Suzanne Nagy secured all rights to what remained, and following recent restoration efforts, is…, Hilariously bananas, with a bear puppet that goes “RAWRRRRRRRRRRR!”. Use the HTML below. His brother, and a friend, are convinced he was attacked by a grizzly bear. Grizzly II: Revenge AKA Grizzly II: The Predator AKA Grizzly II: The Concert may be technically in this category, finally getting finished and officially released after sitting on a shelf for 37 years, but sometimes fabled, unfinished projects should perhaps…stay that way. The E! I purchased a copy of 2001 edition of The Rough Guide to Cult Movies (subtitle: The Good, the Bad, the…, While female directors are relatively sparse in the mainstream film industry as a whole, in comparison to their male counterparts,…. When a park ranger claims a 15-foot grizzly bear is killing people within a national park, all hell breaks loose after authority figures refuse to step in and cancel a big rock concert … When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers. In 2007, a work print surfaced online and there it sits on Youtube on this date. True Hollywood Story hook here is that this sequel-in-name-only killer bear movie was never finished in the early '80s, with only work print pieces and incomplete bootleg footage getting passed around for nearly 40 years until it was officially remastered, "spruced up" with edits, added scenes and effects, and released into the canon of cinema history here in January…, Dieser Film wurde doch tatsächlich für dieses Jahr angedroht, das verschollene Juwel, der Mythos, der (später aufgetauchte) Workprint. Filmed in 1983 and featuring appearances from George Clooney, Laura Dern, Charlie Sheen, Louise Fletcher, John Rhys-Davies and Deborah Foreman, the film was only available via bootlegs forever. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Instead we get a Jaws-like solution where we don't get to see the bear, just the frightened looks on the victim's faces... until the final, unedited reel where we get some hilarious shots of the robot bear attacking a new wave concert. The crowd was unaware that the following act was not a real band, and were being recorded for a film. Nine college students staying at a friend's remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool's Day weekend, but nothing is as it seems. Grizzly II: Revenge. Nazareth wouldn’t appear in the finished film. Kills aren't nearly as brutal as in the first, those big name stars die within the first five minutes, and the disjointed nature just doesn't help. There were some great moments, one of those classic helicopter explosions, and some cool deaths, so I was curious about this one. GRIZZLY II is... something alright. Film data from TMDb. Every Horror Film Made from 1895 - present, I’m in my room alone bored and I will be making a list of every movie that comes to my mind until I get bored with that, The Chronological History of the Cinematic Macabre, Genre: Exploitation (100 Years: 1896-1995), Taste Of Cinema's Recommendations: Weird, Bizarre, Camp, Trashy & Cult, letterboxd.com/toshio/list/all-nighter-watchlist/. The film is about a giant grizzly, who seeks revenge after her cubs were killed by poachers. Starring George Clooney*, Laura Dern*, Charlie Sheen**, Louise Fletcher and John Rhys-Davies. Endless scenes of nature footage and a Hungarian concert. John Rhys Davies is the only bright spot through the whole movie. Her husband works long hours as an advertising executive and ... See full summary ». Regardless of all this mess, this is a highly entertaining piece of work, especially if you're…, *the on-screen subtitle was "The Revenge", boo, so bravo to Letterboxd for holding on to the much more intriguing (until you see the movie) and amusingly incongruous (until you see the movie) choice of "The Concert" instead*. Give me this without the awful stock footage added in and I’ll add a star. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. The big problem of course is that almost none of the bear footage exists in the original cut and as a movie about a 20 foot tall bear attacking a rock concert, that's a significant issue. Grizzly II: Revenge (1983) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. So there was about an hour of footage that was filmed from the original film. This FAQ is empty. Grizzly II: The Predator (original title) Not Rated | 1h 37min | Horror, Music, Thriller | 1983 (USA) All hell breaks loose when a giant Grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of Grizzlies by poachers, attacks at a massive big-band rock concert in the National Park. ... See full summary ». If the kills in this…. The concert scenes were filmed after a performance by Nazareth. But they’d help lure the nearly 50,000 fans-slash-extras needed for Grizzly II’s concert scenes. Report this film. In summation, a piss-poor "Jaws" rip-off at an outdoor music festival. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Was this review helpful to you? All hell breaks loose when a giant Grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of Grizzlies by poachers, attacks at a massive big-band rock concert in the National Park. Directed by André Szöts. The myth built around this film in the late VHS days was such that it became a sort of Holy Grail for collectors and finally a rough work-print did surface, but the film was never completed properly. This 'finished' cut is all the footage you saw before, but now there's some THE DARK KNIGHT music over it and IMovie stock footage to fill out the gaps. HORROR; All hell breaks loose when a 15-ft grizzly bear, reacting to the slaughter of her cub by poachers, seeks revenge and kills anyone that gets in her way. A native american tracker is called in (he often refers to the bear as an evil spirit, ripping off Claws) but is unable to prevent the bear from attacking the concert, which is eventually killed. It's not some great lost holy grail but it is a very interesting edit project. Add the first question. Grizzly II: The Revenge on Blu-ray. All the films from my exploitation lists, bundled into one mega-super-list-to-rule-them-all! João Monteiro 1,327 films 1,485 59 Edit, The Big Picture’s Long List is every single movie that was mentioned on The Ringer’s Big Picture podcast in 2020…, short horror films and feature length horror films that are 90 minutes or less. While the park ranger and his girlfriend pursue the bear and debate its proper fate, a group of poachers attempt to trap it themselves. The kid attack in the pool is awesomely memorable from the first one. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. John Rhys-Davies plays a damn 7ft tall mountain man named Bouchard who picks up entire fallen trees with ease and yet this killer bear movie is more interested in being just the absolute worst concert experience possible. Rating and judging a work print may not be fair but life isn't fair so I'm not about to give Grizzly II any sympathy. It's such a Frankenstein's Monster of a movie. Filmed in 1983 but funding fell through, the mechanical bear wasn't working and a second unit director may have had a nervous breakdown. There is a multitude of stories as to why, the most common involving the producer running off with the budget, or the bills for the equipment not being paid, resulting in the Hungarian … The basic story involves a massive concert being held at a national park, at the same time that a massive, prehistoric grizzly bear awakes and starts attacking people in the park. The saga continues. 0 of 1 people found this review helpful. For real, it's 70% a dragged out 80's concert movie (supposedly mixed in with new concert footage from the last few years or so), 29% killer bear movie, and then for brief strange scene it was an experimental/National Geographic documentary with a modern score playing alongside the images of nature again with new footage shot in the last few years or so. Grizzly II is a fairly basic killer animal movie, like its predecessor. 37 years in the making...well, for a film that took this long to find some semblance of completion, I knew it wasn’t going to be great, and it isn’t. In the 3 days before the major concert, the gigantic grizzly has brutally attacked campers, a poacher and a park ranger. Make sure to stick around for the most "I give up" ending of all time. Until this year, it only existed as a bootlegged workprint lacking credits, final soundtrack cues, most glimpses of the giant killer bear and, most unfortunately, a conclusion. Grizzly II: Revenge (sometimes stylized Grizzly II. His girlfriend is pregnant and will not be in a house with drugs and guns and is going to Portland OR. And The Dinner Is Served. Theres about 6 minutes of new footage and it just brings the movie down completely. Grizzly II: Revenge (2020) torrent movie INFO : . The Stage Is Set... And The Dinner Is Served. 2020 IMDb It is also known as Grizzly II: The Predator, Predator: The Concert, or a variety of other work-in-process names. Just when it starts to lag, it gets a shot in the arm with unbelievably campy performance by Jonathan Rhys Davies as a Native American bear hunter? A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is. Before his death in 2006, Szöts would remind her of the unfinished work that was supposed to have been released in 1983. Grizzly II (which went by two different titles, Grizzly II: The Predator and Grizzly II: The Concert), was filmed in 1983 in Hungary, but never released. © Letterboxd Limited. More details at Grizzly II had become a national embarrassment in her home country, and as the years went by and her career continued, she regarded it as a huge regret.
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