Agreed. The reveal of the possessed Good Guy doll is not a surprise twist. It was never meant to be, and the principal underlying it goes back to Hitchcock.
As he explains, if there is a bomb under the table and it explodes then all you've given the audience a surprise. If you show the bomb and it's timer to the audience beforehand though, then you create suspense because they now know something the movie characters do not. It generates so many questions and tension about who set it, will they find it in time, and so on.
The point isn't to keep us in the dark about Chucky, it's to give us suspense and tension about how and when the characters discover the truth.
Touche.
Downloaded a copy of the "completed" Grizzly 2: the Revenge (it used to be Grizzly 2: the Predator but it was retitled for some reason). Tagging
@Frank D'arbo .
This had an interesting production history where one of the producers took off, the cast and crew soldered on, and the footage lacked a crucial part of a movie about a killer bear: the bear.
The co-producer who I guess now owns the movie has been promoting her re-release of it for over a decade and copyright striking anyone who uploaded footage of the workprint.
So it finally comes out almost 40 years later. The footage looks good at least but has a distracting color timing trying to make the movie look more "new" for lack of a better word and the cunt producer has been trying to hide just how old the movie is with IMDB crediting it as a movie made in 2020.
The big question when you watch this POS is: how do they get around the fact that there's no footage of the bear or of the kills? Here's the big answer: stock footage. The opening 2 minutes is taken from modern stock footage you could get off any stock footage site and has some terrible After Effects CG. Any time they need an establishing shot of the forest they use modern stock footage which is why I think they color timed the footage to look like a new film so it kind of matches. Any shot of the bear is stock footage and I think taken from the first Grizzly and it still doesn't have gore. That would have been fun to have seen and could have been relatively easily done: shoot on 35 MM, get an effects guy who can pull off a decent bear suit and get some gory extreme closeups. Done. But they didn't do that because they were cheap. I doubt it would have cost a shitload to do.
An example of the really distracting color timing:
The movie, despite being 74 minutes is still padded with tons of concert footage. It's obvious this concert footage is 2nd unit and obviously -had the film been properly completed- would have drastically been cut down. And there's new concert footage, shot on digital cameras, shoved in there just to pad it out even more. Any time there's an aerial shot it's either stock footage or the cunt producer had a friend with a drone and got a couple minutes of drone shots.
There is so much god damn concert footage. Still no pay off of the bear -aside from stock footage- and still no gore. The film is aching for a payoff to seeing the poachers get killed but it cuts away. The final 14 minutes has to be seen to be believed as it features more poorly edited bear stock footage. They found a pretty decent solution to there being absolutely no footage of the bear at the concert. The ending is just as abrupt and makes no sense. If you want a good killer bear flick then check The Prophecy from 1979 or Berserker from 1987 which isn't good but it's a fun bad movie and a unique take on the slasher.
