| Grizzly Park | |
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| Directed by | Tom Skull |
| Produced by | Belle Avery Jeanne Stack |
| Written by | Tom Skull |
| Starring | Glenn Morshower |
| Music by | Anthony Marenilli |
| Cinematography | Matt Cantrell |
| Editing by | Bob Mori |
| Distributed by | American World Pictures (AWP) |
| Release date(s) | February 7, 2008 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Grizzly Park is an American horror film, released February 8, 2008. [1] Focusing on a group of troublesome young adults led by a park ranger, the movie's main antagonist is Brody the Bear, a Kodiak bear who makes his first film appearance.
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Eight troubled young adults are inducted into a rehabilitation program. They are sent to serve a week of community service for their respective misdemeanor:
Michael 'Scab' White (experimental drug abuse) is a white supremacist, Lola (gang-related shooting) is a Mexican tomboy, Bebe (shoplifting) is ditzy and dimwitted, Ty (fraud) is a computer wiz, Candy (prostitution) is a shallow "it girl", Ryan (corruption of a minor) is a spoiled rich kid, KiKi (stealing poison) is also spoiled and shallow, and Trickster (impersonating a police officer) is mostly concerned with pulling pranks, making passes at Bebe and annoying Ranger Bob, the stalwart supervisor of the program.
The correctional program takes place in a remote California state forest ranch called Grizzly Park, which is evacuated because of raging wildfires in southern California.
Under Ranger Bob's leadership, the miscreant youths are given an opportunity to seek redemption on their journey through the forest. This fails miserably however as the beautiful setting of Grizzly Park induces no self-reflection in them and they show no sign of remorse. Instead, the young offenders spend the hiking trip lusting after each other for the most part.
Scab and Lola are interested in each other but Scab's prejudice prevents him from making a move, Ty and Kiki connect over their immense selfishness and dislike of old people, and Candy find's Ryan's financial status appealing as does Candy's body. While Ranger Bob seeks to provide both literal and spiritual guidance to the youngsters, an escaped serial killer with an insatiable bloodlust has also found his way into the park with every intention of disposing of anyone in his path. The main antagonist and source of horror however is the reluctant campers being stalked by a ravenous grizzly bear out to gorge itself for hibernation.
One by one, the young adults are slaughtered after the bear makes a meal out of the serial killer. Kiki dies first (brutally attacked by a wolf), then Ty (caught in a trap and killed offscreen), then Scab (who goes on a drug trip and is then murdered offscreen), then Trickster (playing a prank on his fellow delinquents by dressing as a bear and then gets decapitated), then Lola (failed to escape from the bear and was killed by a fence), then Ryan (the bear mauls him while his arms separate from him), and then Candy (killed by the bear in a supply room). Bebe is the only survivor until Ranger Bob finds out it was all an act. Bebe survives, because she seems to have learned from her mistakes, but during a phone call to her friend, Ranger Bob hears her talk about killing him. Bebe didn't learn her lesson, and after she leaves her cabin, the bear arrives and attacks her. In an ending scene, after news was made about the deaths about the troubled young adults, Ranger Bob is revealed to have trained the bear to kill the delinquents, because they didn't learn from their past mistakes.