AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

kapelusznik18 *****SPOILERS*** Released a year after the very successful killer bear movie "Gizzly" the film "Claws" is about a wounded grizzly bear who's been terrorizing the Northern Alaskan territory for some five years killing and wounding dozes of people in the process as well as eating them. It's mountain man and professional hunter Jason Monroe, Jason Evers, who feels responsible for the bear's , who's been nicknamed Kushtaka by the local Indian tribes, actions since he was one of the hunters who five years ago wounded him and didn't bother to track him down and finish him off for good.Now with the bear or "Devil Bear"" as he's now called in full rampage mode Jason takes it upon himself to correct the mistake, by not killing the bear, that he made five years ago. It was when the bear attacked a boy scout troop badly mauling Jason's 12 year old son that he decided to come out of retirement, due to injuries he suffered in a bear attack, and finally finish the "Devil Bear" off. Together with Forset Commissioner Ben Jones, Leon Ames, and both Indian scout Henry Chico, Anthony Caruso, and fellow hunter Holitzer Howard , Glenn Snips, Jason goes into the mountain regions of Alaska to find the "Devil Bear" and finally put an end to his reign of terror.****SPOILERS**** Despite it's meager budget and production values the movie "Claws" makes the most of the striking Alaskan nature scenery as well as the very effective bear attacks, done in super slow motion, that makes it more then worth watching. The final sequence with Jason and his estrange wife Chris, Carla Layton, who left him after he ended up becoming a hermit after he developed a drinking problem, in failing to put down the "Devil Bear" and being mauled by it five years ago, is as exciting as well as effective as the endings in both the movies "Jaws" and "Grizzly". And like in the movie "Jaws" it was the "Devil Bear" himself who unwittingly, by getting himself doused in gasoline, who turned out be his own worst enemy.

Scarecrow-88 A logger's life is turned upside down after encountering an enraged grizzly bear, wounded by big game hunters, leaving him with a bum arm and bad marriage. The bear continues a rampage attacking any human it comes in contact with, Jason(Jason Evers) remaining haunted by nightmares, unable, though, to leave the wilderness, a place that has always been his home. When his son, Buck, is viciously attacked by the "devil bear" while on a camping trip with mom's new boyfriend, Jason will brave the wilds of the Alaskan wilderness with one goal in mind and that is getting revenge. When an attempt to capture the bear fail(..the bear outsmarts two scientists and a hunter with tracking devices), Jason will be accompanied by Forest Commish Ben Jones(Leon Ames), old Indian pal Henry(Anthony Caruso), and his ex-wife's new boyfriend Howard(Glenn Sipes) on the grand trek through the woods and up mountains to seek out and destroy the bear once and for all. The movie shows how the bear seems wiser and more cunning than those hunting him, often surprising victims from behind, with them unable to defend themselves. Bullets upon bullets are fired into the bear and, despite it's size, those after it lose him multiple times. A good bulk of the film has the four hunters into the wilderness, and the pace drags quite a bit, not to mention, the attacks are few and far between. It's also really difficult shooting an effective scene where a man and bear are at war, because of the danger involved, while trying to prevent any harm to animals in the process..so many scenes where a bear and man are trying to find each other, they are heavily edited with repetitive images(..of the bear mostly)replayed over and over. There are some good jump scenes where a victim believes the bear is not nearby, only to be startled as it carries them off-screen. There's emphasis on the struggling relations between Jason and his wife Chris(Carla Layton)due to the overwhelming thundercloud of the bear's presence hanging over them. A little too overlong(..there's a decent 85 minute movie here, padded longer than need be)with little real action. Try GRIZZLY instead.

Chris Gaskin 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.

eddy-28 Okay CLAWS in which in GRIZZLY (1976) says that was a subtitle for the film for GRIZZLY. CLAWS is not as intense as GRIZZLY but to most people through the 70's they still think CLAWS is a true sequel to GRIZZLY. CLAWS is way different and no it is not the same story line as GRIZZLY, CLAWS is about a few hunters who are attacked by a grizzly bear and years later the bear goes on a killing spere. CLAWS is no follow up to GRIZZLY however Jason Evers does metion one of the characters in GRIZZLY Which is to believed to be Christopher George. CLAWS also has Leon Armes that late actor who died a few years later. CLAWS is a good film but I do not know who the director is, I have never heard of him before. Edward L. Montoro (Producer of GRIZZLY) later filmed a film in 1984 called GRIZZLY II THE PREDATOR that is the real unknown sequel to GRIZZLY which had Charlie Sheen and George Clooney in their big roles however the film was not released untill 1986.