Grizzly Park

I was anxious to see if Grizzly Park would follow the typical rules these kinds of movies often do..you know, group of kids, on a camping trip, falling prey to someone or something, one by one, individuals(..or in a duo)seperating from the pack, scurrying off to get high or laid, or whatever, encountering a hostile threat.

While Tom Skull's film(..he wrote and directed it) features "disposable teens", dispicable teen scum you yearn to see perish in the worse possible ways, there's a dark humor that runs rampant(..I felt that Skull specifically / deliberately wrote for these characters to be as morally sickening as possible) with a delightful twist I thoroughly enjoyed..a wonderful wink if you will for those who were patient and tolerated these loathesome cretins(..many a product of wealth who committed their deeds for materialistic avarice)for the duration.

The essential, simple plot has these teen felons forced into community service, despite the fact that all of them committed crimes which warranted far worse punishment. We must endure 80 minutes with these people as does austere, reserved Ranger Bob(Glenn Morshower, who is able to pull this role off with such ease), who we can tell represses his ill feelings for this brood of deplorable delinquents. Ranger Bob(..pronounced with scorn and vile by his group)must lead them into his California State Park to pick up trash, among other duties for their various crimes. Once deep within the woods, two of Bob's stupid kids decide to take a "short cut"(..according to one of the teen's GPS tracking devices which he doesn't read appropriately)in order to beat the others to the camp site a few miles ahead. They get lost and soon become fodder for a wolf and bear. Well, one of them gets caught in a trap designed(..we are led to believe)for wolves, while another attempts to run from a white wolf coming towards her. Hanging upside down, the other has nowhere to run as a bear growls as supper is prepared.

Meanwhile, Bob has the others getting adjusted to their temporary cabins as he decides to seek out the two who fled from the pack. This leaves the kids alone to do chores assigned to them(..they, of course, aren't too keen to follow), and soon the killer bear greets them in a not so friendly fashion.

As I was mentioning above, the film punishes us for an insufferable 80 minutes with these kids before the bear turns them into mincemeat. The upper half of a head is taken off in one bear strike with tongue still wagging. The latino girl is crawling on the ground(..after the bear scooped her from a ladder she was attempting to climb), with the lower half of her body gone, tattered intestines strewn out. Arms are pulled off as two girls attempt to pull their friend from the clutches of the bear(..he also has a "skin flap" which reveals that the bear has sliced open the side of his head with the flesh, hair still intact, hanging apart from the skull). Bob also finds half a victim's face, the only remains left of the person attacked.

The funniest scene has this rich prick, who got a 15 year old drunk, forcing her into a form of asphyxiophilia, leading to her comatose condition(..according to him, they were fucking with plastic bags over the heads for a little extra kick), which is the reason he was serving community service..his wealthy daddy got him out of a jam..being pulled through a window by a bear's arm after establishing what he thought was their safety(..in this storage shed).

Skull doesn't change from what other directors often do in these kinds of "animals attack" movies..actors and the real bear never appear on screen together at the same time, with Skull using editing and a fake arm with a claw reaching up to grab victims(..they are whisked away out of frame, later shown in a devastated state). The worst use of this effect was when a female is attacked by the wolf..it's terribly unimpressive a scene, and not very believable.

The teen characters are pure stereotypes and their reasons for being in the community service program will perhaps cause you to root vocally loud for their deaths in the most vicious way possible.

I caught this on Chiller channel, so I'm guessing it's a possibility those who watch Syfy on a regular basis should see it on the Saturday or Sunday line-up eventually. It's no great shakes but the finale(..which certainly answers a question regarding whether or not a girl's boobs are in fact real or fake)offers a nice surprise which should delight gorehounds.
I'm not sure what was left out of the broadcast for the movie on Chiller, so Grizzly Park could contain nudity and profanity. I'm not sure if there was any extra violence too graphic for television, but what Chiller allowed was actually strong stuff in regards to public consumption.