Claws

Its pretty obvious where this one got its inspiration from - Claws even sounds like Jaws. After Spielberg's big fish classic became one of the ultimate blockbusters, many films followed in its wake, with tales about animals going on the rampage. This is one of the ones involving a grizzly bear. In it, a massive bear is shot by illegal hunters, instead of going off to die it instead goes completely radge and becomes a local menace for several years. This leads to a group of hunters going out to track it down - you know the drill. This one is a bit scrappy in some ways but benefits quite a bit from its on-location shooting in the Alaskan wilds.

When a giant,killer grizzly bear terrorizes the countryside three men go on a dangerous hunting mission to bring it down."Claws" is not as good as "Grizzly"(1976)-in fact it's pretty dull at times.There is no gore to speak of and no suspense.The photography of Alaska wilderness is outstanding.The acting is pretty good and the climax is fairly exciting.Still the special effects are not too hot."Claws" is tough to find,but if you liked "Grizzly" give this one a look.

CLAWS features an enraged grizzly bear, out to avenge the loss of its fellow grizzly to some hunters. For years thereafter, it kills its way through the local population, until a group of men decide to track it down.

BEST SCENES: #1- When a group of yahoos decide to go after the bear, who is not impressed! #2- The sheriff having his skeleton rearranged! #3- The "experts" who use an array of technological gadgets in an attempt to take the bear alive! Unfortunately, the bear doesn't feel the same way about them!

Put out in order to cash in on the popularity of the JAWS imitation craze of the 1970's, it's mostly a forgotten artifact today. In spite of its low budget and inherent cheeeze factor, it is enjoyable to watch, and the fiery finale is definitely rewatchable!...

A lot of people confuse this movie with "Grizzly". "Grizzly" has Christopher George AND Andrew Prine AND Richard Jaekl AND a female park ranger who decides to take time out from hunting an 18-foot killer grizzly bear to strip off all her clothes and take an impromptu shower in a waterfall (guess what happens?). "Claws" has none of these things, just a lot of travelogue footage of the Alaskan wilderness and some Native American nonsense about a "spirit bear". Neither movie is particularly scary. They both contain a lot shots of a disembodied bear paw flying through air, lopping off heads and limbs edited together with close-ups of the face of a real bear who looks only mildly annoyed. There is one pretty good scene where the bear menaces a boy scout camp, but it's only good because it's dark and you can't really see the bear. Actually, you can't see a lot of things in the very murky existing prints of this hard-to-find movie. It probably doesn't merit a DVD resurrection, however, because I have a feeling that what you can't see would still suck. "Grizzly" is so bad it's good; "Claws" is just bad.

This movie is not a good killer grizzly movie. I just don't know why they also call it Devil Bear because it is not scary enough to be called that. The movie is very dark. Sometimes you can't see certain things and the sound in the movie is bad. Most of all, the movie is boring. 2.5 stars out of 5 for my rating.