Director: Burke Doeren
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Nature-Run-Amok
Plot:
Heading out into the woods, a group of rangers at a local park service starts to become concerned about a growing number of incidents and reports about bears in the area, which soon turns into a wild encounter when a series of attacks occurs in the park, depicting attacks on visitors.
Review:
This was a decent enough, if problematic, genre drama. Among the better features here revolves around the focus of the realistic setup of what would be the response to a series of animal attacks in this style in a park not equipped to handle it. The early setup here involves the everyday life of the facility and how the residents are reacting to the normal operations around them, which is soon interrupted by a series of reports and encounters about the bear in the park stalking others as they hike or camp through the area, giving the film a solid touch. With the latter race to get the victims to safety once it's established that something is going on with the bear crossing the various campgrounds and taking out campers in the woods, these come together into a solid series of rather enjoyable interactions.
That highlights the main flaw here: despite all the previous interactions and confrontations with the bear, this just never feels like a genuine genre effort, and very little of the interactions feature that kind of dark or ominous atmosphere. The whole thing speaks more to a drama-like setup where it's about trying to ensure that there's never any kind of intense action or thrilling moments that are kept to a minimum, draining this one without much in the way of horror or action, with cutaways from when the bear's about to attack, so there's little about getting the intensity behind it. With no intent on following up on the attacks since this makes it about the heroism of the officer to take down the creature following the attack, with everything more focused on the struggles in the aftermath, it might not be what most want in their films.
Overview: **/5
An enjoyable enough if somewhat problematic fringe genre effort, this one has a lot to like about it while being somewhat let down by a lot of issues that are necessary for genre aficionados. Those with an appreciation for what it’s trying to do or who enjoy this style more than outright genre fare will have the most to like here, while most others expecting more traditional features will want to head caution.
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