History YMMV / TheGrey

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Oy, where do we begin? The plane crash or the wolves themselves?
** And the Alaskan environment itself trying to kill them.
** [[HellIsThatNoise That loud roar the Alpha lets out]] when Diaz was taunting him [[spoiler: after killing one of the wolves]]

** Hell, the film features Sound Effects of Awesome as well. In the theaters you will feel the power and intensity of the plane crash and your bodies will quake from the sounds of the wolves. . .

** That loud roar the Alpha lets out when Diaz was taunting him [[spoiler: after killing one of the wolves]]

* TearJerker: Many occur down the road, but [[spoiler: Ottway placing all the wallets of the deceased in a pile before his {{Last Stand}} and looking inside each to get a glimpse at each of their loved ones especially counts.]]

** It really hits a tender chord when [[spoiler: he looks at Diaz' wallet, just to find (as he proclaimed) he has no pictures of loved ones, only his driver's license.]] When [[spoiler: Ottway finally reaches his own, flipping to a picture he has of his [[{{DeadAllAlong}} dead wife, you're going to shed many manly tears.]]]]

* TearJerker: Many occur down the road, but [[spoiler: Ottway placing all the wallets of the deceased in a pile before his {{Last Stand}} and looking inside each to get a glimpse at each of their loved ones especially counts.]] It really hits a tender chord when [[spoiler: he looks at Diaz' wallet, just to find (as he proclaimed) he has no pictures of loved ones, only his driver's license and when Ottway finally reaches his own, flipping to a picture he has of his [[{{DeadAllAlong}} dead wife.]]]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome / SceneryPorn: They filmed on location in Alaska and it looks beautiful. The wolves are also not CGI, but animatronics and puppetry, and they still look really good...[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel and TERRIFYING.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: While it is a bit predictable, finding out that [[spoiler: Ottway's wife has been {{Dead All Along}} is still deeply saddening, especially after really connecting to Ottway by that point.]] Then, you realize [[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Richardson#Injury_and_death what Liam Neeson has been through in real life.]]]]

* HarsherInHindsight: While it is a bit predictable, finding out that [[spoiler: Ottway's wife has been {{Dead All Along}} is still deeply saddening, especially after really connecting to the Ottway by that point.]] Then, you realize [[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Richardson#Injury_and_death what Liam Neeson has been through in real life.]]]]

* HarsherInHindsight: While it is a bit predictable, finding out [[spoiler: that Ottway's wife has been {{DeadAllAlong}} is still deeply saddening, especially after deeply connecting to the Ottway by that point.]] Then, you realize [[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Richardson#Injury_and_death what Liam Neeson has been through in real life.]]]]

** The film's trailers, at least, do a very poor job of giving the impression that the writers understand real wolves, which are known to be skittish around fire and humans, whether or not they've encountered them before. It's handled better in the actual film, where it's revealed that the survivors were treading very close to the wolves' den -- the cause of most violent wolf encounters in RealLife.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The film's trailers, at least, do a very poor job of giving the impression that the writers understand real wolves, which are known to be skittish around fire and humans, whether or not they've encountered them before. It's handled better in the actual film, where it's revealed that the survivors were treading very close to the wolves' den -- the cause of most violent wolf encounters in RealLife.

** [[spoiler: [[{{LastStand}} Ottway doesn't last much longer after that anyways...]]]]

** ArtisticLicenseBiology: The film's trailers, at least, do a very poor job of giving the impression that the writers understand real wolves, which are known to be skittish around fire and humans, whether or not they've encountered them before. It's handled better in the actual film, where it's revealed that the survivors were treading very close to the wolves' den -- the cause of most violent wolf encounters in RealLife.

** ArtisticLicenseBiology: The film's trailers, at least, do a poor job of giving the impression that the writers understand real wolves. They are known to be skittish around fire and humans, whether or not they've encountered them before, though in the film it's revealed that the survivors were treading very close to the wolves' den -- the cause of most wolf encounters in RealLife.

** Artistic License - Biology: The film's trailers, at least, do a poor job of giving the impression that the writers understand real wolves, who are skittish around fire and humans, whether or not they've encountered them before.

** Artistic License - Biology: The film's trailers, at least, do a poor job of giving the impression that the writers understand real wolves, who are skittish around fire and humans, whether or not they've encountered them before.

* HateDumb: Wolfaboos are gathering like flies to boycott the movie.