YMMV / Grizzly

• Common Knowledge:
  • Susan Backlinie (Chrissy from Jaws) does not appear in this movie despite persistent claims (including, for a time, IMDB) that she does. Backlinie did appear in William Girdler's later Day of the Animals, along with an unrelated family film called The Grizzly & the Treasure.
  • A number of websites also claim that Teddy, the animal actor playing the grizzly, was the father of Bart the Bear, but there doesn't seem to be any hard evidence for this.
• Fan Nickname: "Paws" for the film, as a joke on how similar it is to Jaws.
• Fridge Horror: How many people did the bear kill before it entered the park, where its rampage would have a greater chance of being noticed? The novelization explains that its mother abandoned it before teaching it how to hunt properly and that it seriously injured its jaw sometime after. Yet it's twice the size of an adult grizzly by the time it starts killing people on screen. It certainly didn't get that big by eating nuts, berries, and picnic baskets and being too injured to hunt properly is a number one reason large carnivores turn to man-eating.
• Narm: For the most part, the noises the bear makes in the film were made by the filmmakers according to the audio commentary.
• Nightmare Fuel: The bear is extremely violent. The film is also surprisingly bloody, and features a truly horrifying scene where it attacks a child and tears their leg off.
• One-Scene Wonder: The lone hunter who slides down a tree and then jumps into a river while fleeing downhill from the bear.
• Sequelitis: Grizzly II: The Revenge, fullstop. After taking almost 40 years to complete, a cheaply hacked together mess with modern, pristine footage used to finish an incomplete film from the 1980s is the end result. The grizzly attack scenes are a mess with HD stock footage of bears filmed with high-def cameras attacking actors in grainy, decades-old footage, with the three highest billed cast members simply being the film's opening kills, the story is an incomprehensible mess with not one character written deep enough to care about, and it makes absolutely zero mention of the first movie. The general consensus is that Grizzly II should have remained unfinished if that was the best that could be done.
• Special Effects Failure: When not using the live bear, it's rather obvious when the film uses a guy in a bear suit or bear paw gloves. Also, save for one shot towards the very end, the actors and the bear are never in the same scene.

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