Grizzly (1976) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/515867/grizzly
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap769z_7KjU
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those tubi and youtube links
- dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x95jiba
- archive: https://archive.org/details/grizzly_202207
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm89571
...about a park ranger's attempts to halt the wild rampage of an 18 ft (5.5 m) tall, 2,000 lb (910 kg) man-eating grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest, having developed a taste for human flesh. However, a drunken hunting party complicates matters.
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Critical reception for Grizzly in 1976 was extremely negative, with most critics criticizing the film for being too similar to Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws. Vincent Canby, from the New York Times, criticized the film's poor plotting, cinematography and editing. He wrote, "Grizzly, which opened yesterday at the Rivoli and other theaters, is such a blatant imitation of Jaws that one has to admire the depth of the flattery it represents, though not the lack of talent involved."[4] Donald Guarisco from AllMovie gave the film a negative review, criticizing the film's script, cheap gore, and overuse of clichés, and saying, "This energetic but clumsy horror effort is too contrived and poorly realized to be worthwhile for most viewers."[5] Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film two out of four stars, calling it an "OK rip-off of Jaws".[6]Despite the negative reviews, Grizzly was the top grossing independent film of 1976, earning nearly $38 million worldwide...
I feelz ya, fam! I'm totally into sumo and the top-tier matches in Japan start at 3:30am in my time zone.
Anyway, if you want to replicate the Monsterdon experience: