Grizzly Night (2026) Review

Grizzly Night (2026) Review

Based on true events, the film is about one night, in 1967, when two attacks by grizzly bears, nine miles apart, took place in Montana’s Glacier National Park.

The film stars Brec Bassinger (Final Destination: Bloodlines), Jack Griffo (The Thundermans), Charles Esten (The Postman), Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Star Trek Discovery), Joel Johnstone (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Josh Zuckerman (Feast), Matt Lintz (The Walking Dead) and Ali Skovbye (The Man in the High Castle). Burke Doeren makes his feature directorial debut.

Having grown up during the Seventies, when creature features were in their imperial phase, I developed a liking for them, no matter how good or bad the film in question might be. In recent years, bear-wise, we have had the excellent comedy-horror COCAINE BEAR as well a couple of miserable WINNIE THE POOH cash-in’s and now we have based-on-fact thriller GRIZZLY NIGHT which is nowhere near as good a watch as COCAINE BEAR but is fortunately miles better than the risible WINNIE THE POOH films.

That said, GRIZZLY NIGHT is distinctly lacking any flavour. Regardless of whether it is a dialogue scene or a bear attack, GRIZZLY NIGHT plays everything at the same pitch. There is zero tension and consequently there are zero thrills. Commendably, given that it is based on actual events, it plays everything straight, without bigging things up and respectfully the kill scenes are off camera but at the same time, some juice in the engine would not have gone amiss. It is further hampered by a script that feels the needs to unnecessarily spell out things in advance and by also having characters are that blandly written and unconvincing.

Grizzly Night will be available on Digital & DVD from 2nd February.

Watch the trailer here!

Available to pre-order now on DVD and Digital