Load of rubbish!!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Blistering performances.

If "Grizzly" was the B-grade answer to "Jaws", then "Claws" in my opinion, is the next generation answer to "Grizzly". Despite a top- notch cast (Evers, Aames, Caruso, Young & Healey), "Claws" lacks the technical expertise William Girdler displayed in conjuring his spin-off, the bear attacks and aftermath here, a lot less bloody and realistic.The acting of the veterans isn't bad at all, though Evers does at times seem more than a little self-righteous as he mentally deteriorates years after being attacked by what has now become the local folklore of "Devil Bear". Estranged from his wife & son due to his obsession with locating and killing "Devil Bear", Evers teeters on the brink of insanity, until, "Devil Bear" appears again to wreak havoc and give Evers the chance to avenge the livelihood he lost when his hand was crippled years before (he was a lumberjack by trade, until "Devil Bear" tossed him around like a rag doll).Clichéd and overly intense, "Claws" reminds me of "Snowbeast" both in terms of tone and production quality, it's a very distant standard to Girdler's "Grizzly" despite the obvious homage. Both Aames and Caruso have reasonably good dialogue and deliver earnest, watchable performances - I couldn't really say the same for Layton nor Sipes who both look decidedly amateurish by comparison. As aforesaid, I'm not sure who's more dangerous, "Devil Bear" or Jason Evers' maniacal stare. The slow-motion climax was a bit absurd and Evers' supposedly crippled hand seems to make a miraculous resurrection, but otherwise, it's what you'd expect in a film of this genre, but firmly on the C-scale.

Although I haven't seen Claws for some time, I remember it rather well. I taped this from TV in the early hours on ITV, but unfortunately I taped over it after watching it and has not been on since. In an Alaskan forest, some hunters wound a giant grizzly bear known as the Kustaka and it then goes round killing people, including a young boy who is camping with other children. An estranged couple then go out to look for it and kill it. The man does eventually track it down in a shed and then kills it successfully.This movie is a remake of Grizzly, which was made the year before this in 1976. I have never seen that one.I enjoyed watching this movie and hope it comes on TV again soon.Rating: 3 and a half stars out of 5.

Okay, this movie was only ever made to cash in on the huge hit Jaws, it's name alone makes this very clear. But for those who haven't seen this seventies rarity, I highly recommend it.I was surprised to find that a similar Bear flick called Grizzly got a DVD release in the states and this did not, but who knows, with the absence of a decent DVD back cataloque worldwide, no doubt someone somewhere will by up the rights and put it on general release again.If you can catch this on TV like I have may times, make sure you watch it, it's not scary, but very enjoyable!

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.