"There's something else about bears not many people know. If a bear gets hooked on the taste of human blood, it becomes a man-killer. He'll go on a rampage and has to be destroyed. And that's why you should never hug a bear."
— The Hobo, Hobo with a Shotgun
- The 13th Warrior features man-eating bear-monsters as the primary antagonists who turn out to be neolithic cavemen wearing bearskins.
- The Adventures Of The Wilderness Family features the family being menaced by a Grizzly bear several times. Averted in the case of the film's other bear, Samson, who later comes to their rescue.
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: the prospect of a woman joining the news team will raise the possibility of the network being overwhelmed by bear attacks as they are attracted to her menses; at the film's climax, the hero and heroine must defend themselves after falling into the bear pit at the zoo. The news team tries to fight them off with... little success.
- Annihilation (2018) has a mutated bear who has a human skull growing out of the left side of its face. What makes this bear more terrifying is the fact that after it attacks its victims, it lets out their screams of agony to attract prey.
- Arctic has Overgård and the woman resting in a small cave when a polar bear attacks and tries to get in through the only entrance. Overgård manages to drive it off with flare.
- The 2015 film Backcountry is about a couple who go on a camping trip in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Unfortunately, things start to go south when it's revealed that they're woefully unprepared (as in the boyfriend purposefully left his girlfriend's cell phone behind, and didn't even bring a map), and things go From Bad to Worse when all their food and water is lost. The two end up being attacked in their tent by a black bear, and the girlfriend is forced to flee after the bear drags the boyfriend away and starts eating him alive.
- In Back to the Future Part III, Marty discovers that the cave he hid in houses a bear. He runs.
- The new Trope Namer, the 1976 film The Bad News Bears, actually has nothing to do with this trope. Those Bears just initially sucked at playing baseball.
- Bear, a film produced by Freddie Wong. It's Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- In Berserker, the cast is menaced by a regular bear in addition to the bear-masked Viking remnant. The two even fight each other at one point.
- Subverted in The Call of the Wild (2020): The trailer depicts what appears to be Buck facing down a huge grizzly bear. The movie, however, shows the bear just growling at Buck before letting him pass by unharmed. The film's end has a familiar showdown before Buck forces the bear to back off.
- The Chronicles of Narnia:
- The White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe leads her army from atop a chariot pulled by polar bears.
- In Prince Caspian the Pevensies discover that the animals of Narnia have started to go wild when Lucy is attacked by a bear.
- Just like in the novel, Clan of the Cave Bear has bear wrestling as one of the Neanderthal tribe's rites of passage.
- Claws, a hard to find killer bear film from the 80s.
- Cocaine Bear: After eating a brick of cocaine, the bear in question quickly becomes more erratic... and eventually more violent.
- A bear shows up at the start of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, mauling Caesar's son Blue Eyes and giving him scars on his chest. Caesar steps in between Blue Eyes and the bear and shouts at it while the bear roars back. It all ends when Koba jumps onto the bear from behind and stabs it, leaving it to die from blood loss.
- A grizzly bear is one of the creatures hounding the cast in Day of the Animals. When it confronts a character played by Leslie Nielsen, a brief wrestling match ensues.
- The Jigsaw-ish villains of the Death Tube duology wear cartoon bear costumes because it is a Quirky Work.
- In The Edge, two men are stranded in the wilderness and must outsmart a bear in order to survive.
- Flight of the Eagle is set in the Arctic and features polar bears (which the expedition hunts for meat). One of the expedition members, Fraenkel, ends up getting mauled to death by a polar bear.
- Funhouse (2020): Nero Alexander uses the avatar of a CGI panda named Furcas to communicate with the contestants. The guards also wear panda masks.
- Ginger Snaps also brings up the bears-are-attracted-to-menstruation myth, when Brigitte tries to figure out what kind of animal attacked Ginger after she experienced menarche. In reality, only polar bears have a clear response to human menstrual odors.
- In Girls Nite Out, the mascot of the school basketball team is a bear. The killer steals the costume and gives it Wolverine Claws by putting knives into its paws.
- Godzilla's stance and fighting style in Godzilla (2014) are partly based off of those of bears. A case of Shown Their Work, as Gojira's original suit actor based his movement on that of bears after studying them in zoos.
- The Great Outdoors features a large bear (rumored to be a man-eater) which had her head fur removed via shotgun many years earlier by John Candy's character. This bear shows up toward the end of the movie and is shot in the butt with the shotgun lamp, causing the raccoons to make fun of her.
- Grizzly featured a giant prehistoric killer bear going on a killing spree on ranger's station; the bear's claws are so sharp he can cut off a person's arms and decapitate a horse with a single swipe.note
- Grizzly Bear Activist/Lunatic Timothy Treadwell, subject of the documentary Grizzly Man, made it his life's mission to prove this trope wrong. His mission: Unsuccessful. See the Real-Life folder for details.
- Several direct-to-video films including Grizzly Park, Bear and Grizzly Rage.
- In The Cannon Group's Hercules, the first enemy sent to destroy the hero as an adult is a grizzly bear who manages to slay his adoptive father. Hercules not only beats the tar out of the bear, he tosses the beast into space, whereupon it becomes the Ursa Major constellation!
- In Arnold Schwarzenegger's debut Hercules in New York, Hercules' date in Central Park is interrupted by a bear that has escaped from the zoo, which Hercules wrestles into submission.
- The 2015 film Into the Grizzly Maze features Thomas Jane and Billy Bob Thornton up against a killer bear.
- In Lake Placid, the group is chased and menaced by a bear... only for the gigantic crocodile to lunge out of the water and eat it.
- In the epilogue of Legends of the Fall, Tristan meets his demise at the claws of a grizzly played by Bart the Bear.
- In The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, the horrible disembowellings by the mutant are at first attributed to a bear.Ranger Brad: In my time as a forest ranger, I've seen bears do things not even a bear would do.
- In The Love Bug, as Thorndyke's car is stuck in the mud and his assistant Havershaw attempts to push it out, a bear enters the car, enticed by the food they had. After they get out, Thorndyke immediately takes off without Havershaw, but because his racing goggles are heavily smeared with mud, he doesn't realize there's a bear until he strikes it, making it growl and prompting him to faint.
- The protagonist of Man in the Wilderness is mauled by a bear that wounds him so badly, his companions leave him for dead.
- Misfit Heights has a zombie bear.
- The 1966 film The Night of the Grizzly is one of the earliest "Killer Bear" films.
- Only the Brave: A repeated motif is a bear made of fire, representing the danger fires bring and the cost they inflict. This comes from Eric's memory of one of his earliest fires, an entire forest goes up in flames and out comes running a bear on fire. He says he'd never seen anything so beautiful or so terrifying.
- In Outlander, Kainan and several Vikings go searching for the creature that slaughtered a village. They find a giant bear. While the bear is bad enough in its own right, it wasn't the creature that slaughtered the village — and the Vikings assume that it was, and stop searching.
- In Paddington (2014), as with the rest of the franchise, this is played with and downplayed, since Paddington isn't a wild vicious bear but tends to stumble into occasional mayhem which results in calamity for the people around him. Implied when Mr. Brown tries to inform the insurance company he has a guest in the house that's a bear ("Grizzly? Not particularly!"). Also, when the family first encounter Paddington at the train station, Mr. Brown alerts them to the presence of a bear on the platform and warns them to be careful... because he's probably selling something.
- In the first Problem Child movie, during the scene of the camp, Ben's friend Roy tries to invoke this by scaring everyone wearing a bear costume. Unfortunately for him, Junior brings along a real bear.
- The all-but-forgotten 1979 eco-horror flick Prophecy features a mercury-crazed, skinless, gooey mutant bear which is attacking the human populace nearby. Then the geniuses take her cubs...
- Rampage (2018): Inverted. George the albino gorilla is Bad News for a grizzly bear whose enclosure he ends up breaking into in the night, because he's infected with a pathogen that makes him grow into a violent Kaiju. The grizzly only gets in a few scratches on him before he snaps its neck, and thanks to his Healing Factor, he soon shrugs it off. Could qualify as The Worf Effect, since the point of the scene is to establish that George is now even more dangerous than a bear.
- The Revenant is about a Mountain Man who is mauled by a bear, kills it, and then is left for dead by his hunting party, before miraculously recovering and dragging himself over thousands of miles of wilderness on a quest for revenge. And it's a TRUE STORY.
- In Road to Utopia, bears intrude in the cabin and Bob Hope mistakes one of them for his girlfriend while he groped its paw and commented on its long claws. One of them even talks.
- In Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, the two lead kids get menaced by a polar bear (or at least a man in a laughably awful polar bear costume).
- Savage Planet featured space bears.
- Semi-Pro "Everybody panic! Oh my God, there's a bear loose in the stadium! There will be no refunds!" Harsher in Hindsight: The trainer for that bear was killed by said bear later that year. And the bear got put down.
- Shoot to Kill: The fishermen briefly have a bear scare, but it's just Steve using the bathroom. Later, Stantin and Knox run into a real bear. They try to just casually walk away, but it chases them for a distance.
- Snow Dogs: After Ted is thrown from his sled, he ends up being chased off a cliff by a grizzly, which leads to him then tumbling down a mountain and into a frozen lake where he falls in and nearly Freezes to death.
- Br'er Bear in Song of the South certainly qualifies. He is Beary Funny but at the same time is a brute when he gets mad.
- The Son of Kong features a giant cave bear attacking Denham and Hilda, only failing to kill them thanks to interference from the eponymous son of King Kong, Kiko who defeats and drives it away.
- Spaceballs: Spaceball-1 is about to self-destruct, and the bad guys are trying to get to their escape pods, but since it's a Mel Brooks movie, there were also a bunch of circus folk on the ship, and they took all of the escape pods. Skroob tries to buckle himself into what he thinks is the only empty pod, but there is also a bear, to make this part more hilarious. It scared President Skroob. Even funnier when you remember that the circus was ordered closed earlier in the film by Lord Helmet as punishment.
- Ursine Aliens in the Star Wars movies aren't necessarily bad news, but they're always forces to be reckoned with. Wookiees are some of the most feared badasses in the galaxy, and Ewoks look like teddy bears but prey on humans who offend them or their "gods"; when both species work together, they succeed in taking down The Empire with shockingly primitive technology. The trope is played straight where the polar bear-like wampas are concerned.
- Ted is a comedy about a teddy bear named Ted who comes to life as a result of a child's Christmas wish. Years later, the boy is all grown-up and struggling to become an adult. Ted is a slacker who just wants to drink beer and smoke pot and wants his best friend to do the same. Not scary, but still bad news.
- The Three Stooges met with foul-tempered bears on more than one occasion. They were a little more civilized than the trope usually allows for; one even proved capable of driving a car and signaling for a turn.
- The 2015 horror film Unnatural features ravenous genetically-altered polar bears besieging Arctic residents. And they are VERY bad news.
- In Les Visiteurs, when Godefroy hallucinates under a witch's Mushroom Samba, he thinks Frénégonde's father is a bear chasing her and kills him by mistake. In the sequel, Jacquart bumps into a hostile bear as he's lost in the 12th century woods and countryside.
- White Wolves Adult bears tend to be fearsome and threatening toward the main cast.
- One of the PCP-afflicted animals running loose in Wild Beasts is a polar bear named Pompeius, who at one point mauls a ballet teacher.
- The Yearling: Old Slewfoot kills some of the family’s pigs and injured a dog when Ezra and Jodi chase him. However, the novel’s later part where he’s finally killed was omitted from the film.
- The Japanese film Yellow Fangs, which was based upon the Sankebetsu incident.
