Grizzly Night (2026)

Grizzly Night (2026)

Also known as: No Escape – Grizzly Night

Apparently inspired by true events! On August 12, 1967, in Glacier National Park in Montana, the unthinkable happened: on the same night, 15 km apart, there were not one, but two fatal grizzly bear attacks.

For true connoisseurs of this genre, we’ll recall a multitude of films like Grizzly Maze (2015), which is pretty good, but just like Beast (2022), is a bit too over-the-top. Who still believes you can survive a bare-handed fight against one of these wild beasts at the height of their fury? A film I really like and have seen several times is Bear (2010), known as Grizzly in France, since Jean-Jacques Annaud’s (The Name of the Rose, The Lover) L’Ours / The Bear (1988) already existed. But it isn’t packed with action either; rather, it’s filled with heart-to-heart conversations between two couples. On the other hand, I still haven’t seen any of the following films: Grizzly (1976), Grizzly Adams (1999), Grizzly Park (2008), or No Escape – Grizzly Night (2025).

We also got the mediocre Savage Hunt (2025), as well as the rather bad Crazy Bear (2023).

Grizzly Night is really nice. It’s one of the ones I really liked. But it’s not an action movie, nor is it a horror movie. This is clearly a drama. So, fans of thrills, blood, gore, and adrenaline, you can move along!

“To be a leader, you have to make impossible decisions. What’s hard… is living with those decisions.” What a beautiful line.

There’s a wonderful sense of solidarity in this film, with some powerful moments. We see a lot of very human traits—like fear, cowardice, and denial—but also hope and kindness. There are even scenes where the protagonists have to do something horrible, but you can tell they’re doing it because they’re forced to, even though their ethics scream the opposite. Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices to save other lives. And sometimes, you can’t save certain people who are too badly injured… and you have to accept that and start the grieving process.

This feature film doesn’t overdo it or show too much. It doesn’t present bodies being torn apart left and right and maintains a certain class. Pretty good direction, interesting dialogue. No actors I really know, except for Oded Fehr, who looks somewhat familiar to me.

“I don’t know if it’s all over or if it’s just beginning…” This line appears toward the end. When the danger is gone, we don’t know if it will return in another form or if it will be harder to defeat next time.

A film about a double attack… which seemed like a first for its time. It really isn’t all that common. Movies and legends tend to demonize certain creatures, like wolves and sharks—which can also be compared to all the women who were considered witches and burned at the stake.

Among the movie posters, there’s one showing a gigantic grizzly bear paw behind some trees… but you might think the claws are the spikes on a dinosaur’s back. And the other poster shows an upside-down forest, as if turned over, with a person falling straight into the wide-open jaws of the wild beast.

This feature film explains that you need to know the animals of the regions you’re venturing into or be aware of their presence, while avoiding feeding them for very specific reasons.

In any case, I was pleasantly surprised by this film, which I hadn’t really been looking forward to seeing. And I could easily watch it again.