Film Review – Grizzly Night

Marketing efforts for “Grizzly Night” are hoping to sell the picture as a frightening viewing experience, playing up the size of a bear threat and all the horrors to come. Screenwriters Katrina Mathewson and Tanner Bean turn to history to inspire their nature-run-amok tale, dramatizing the night of a grizzly bear attack in 1967, where a collection of Montana campers were tasked with investigation and evasion as a pair of hulking creatures arrived ready to kill whatever was in front of them. It’s a chilling story of humankind’s folly, eventually inspiring major changes in how to deal with bear-based encounters, but “Grizzly Night” isn’t a pulse-pounding chiller. It’s more of a disaster movie from the 1970s, with director Burke Doeren keeping things weirdly mild as a large collection of characters manage an emergency situation, often without necessary cinematic urgency. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com