This movie hurt my feelings. My pals and I have a "bad" movie night every Thursday, and I gotta say that this one took the cake. Even worse than "Cool as Ice"! It consisted of stock footage and a bunch of B actors hiking. The guy getting eaten by a rat (oh no, was that a spoiler!) was pretty inspired, but that was it.
Shameful, even for the 70's.
It needs a bit of tightening up here and there but is pretty entertaining. What seperates a great director from a merely competent one is the ability to pull those various elements together. Girdler can't quite, but the bit where the guy is begging God for his life while the little girl looks on still gets to me.
Worth a look, I'd say.
Terrible movies are life; there's many far worse, but this is crap, no doubt about that.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
I loved this movie, a "so bad its good" movie.
Ramones, the best band ever.
I just got the DVD of this, and while the movie is passable. the commentary is the worst I've ever heard. Badly recorded, in mono sound, with everyone talking at once and apparently absolutely no editing at all. Then the interviews are equally badly recorded.
Distribution means we have to put up with this crap, but I hereby warn everyone - DO NOT BUY THIS DVD! Wait until the rights are grabbed by somebody with a brain and when you see it re-released, grab it then.
I do admit the special features left something to be desired. But I do love this film and the DVD transfer was exceptinally good in my opinion. I could hardly hear a word in the commentary on this movie or the Grizzly dvd myself.
Ramones, the best band ever.
You couldn't ask for a better movie for a "bad" movie night....This movie is really entertaining and it can bring out the MST3K in you!
shareI thought it was pretty boring, it had a few moments though. The parts with the dogs and rats were the only parts I found good. The movie was just too slow. The funniest part was with Leslie Nelson vs the bear lol.
R.I.P. Uncle Steve
Yeah it wasn't great. Grizzly is far better, and consistently ejoyable, if not actually good. Mind you Day had plenty of good moments, especially towards the end where Leslie was running around clubbing people with no shirt on.
The commentarty is great, but the quiality of the recording is unbelievably bad. So it goes.
Yippee-ki-yay, mother - *sound of lift beeping*
The 70s is v popular today, Tarentino is inspired by the 70s
shareI loved this movie as a kid years ago but hadn't seen it for decades. Just rewatched it again today after 30 years and it was surprisingly still fairly decent. Most of the old movies that I loved as a child, when I rewatch them they aren't half as good so I went in with low expectations.
But the cinematography, camera shots, scenery, acting, story were all pretty decent. This movie was better than many a big budget horror movie of today. It has atmosphere, an inherent pervasive tension that persists throughout the movie as the animals become more aggressive.
It falls short of being a classic, but to deem it as "terrible" I think is an animalistic injustice.
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