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While the film overall is quite comical, there’s still
plenty of nightmarish moments, precisely because a pissed off bear is never not a terrifying sight:
- The premise alone. Yes, it's absurd, but imagine the carnage if one of the most dangerous animals in the world did cocaine.
- Adding on to this, black bears are normally non-aggressive. So nobody would have a clue why it’s so angry until either it’s too late or if they're lucky enough to catch it in the act of eating the cocaine bags.
- The level of gore in itself is pretty stomach churning, as one would expect from the film's subject matter. Special mention goes to Liz accidentally blowing one of the Duchamps' heads off, Peter getting his leg slowly ripped off while he hangs upside down from a tree, and the entirety of the ambulance chase.
- Liz gets ejected from the ambulance while strapped to a gurney, and her face gets shredded across the pavement.
- Syd White deciding his life and his son's life are worth taking on a coke-addicted bear just to get the drugs back. He even threatens an innocent woman and children.
- The ending. While it's ultimately not the bear's fault that cocaine ended up in the forest and the movie plays up her survival as a happy ending, as the last scene before the credits shows, it's very likely anyone who goes into the forest will run across the still coke-addicted bear. Not to mention that now her cubs are also addicted, meaning there are now three murderous bears in the forest. One can only hope that cocaine activity has decreased in the forest and that the effects eventually wear off.
- It's brought up and dropped quickly (possibly because Syd was lying to get Eddie to agree) but one of the reasons Syd wants to get the coke is The Colombian cartel he got it from will kill him, Eddie and his son for losing it. And thanks to Syd's death, they never will, meaning Eddie, his son and Daveed will have to spend the rest of their lives on the run. (Unless of course, they go to retrieve it themselves....)
