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On this episode of the BCoT, we welcome back Executive Producer of the Comic Book Bears Podcasting Network, Bill Zanowitz! One of Bill's favorite type of horror is the surprisingly robust sub-genre of Jawsploitation, and so we'll be talking about one of the first of the films to join that list is 1976's Grizzly, directed by mockbuster pioneer William Girdler. Coming just one year after the original 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, Grizzly takes the same premise, but stages it on land at a national park, and instead of a giant shark, it throws a giant (and very hungry) grizzly bear at the campers, rangers, and inhabitants of the land reserve. Limbs fly, blood pools, and a trio of manly men pledge to stop the bear's rampage in this surprisingly well-made imitation of the previous year's breakout hit. A hit in its own right, despite poor critical reception a ...