A rustle outside the tent. A shadow in the woods. Anyone who plays outside has felt the sensation of something out there and has frozen for a moment. “Was that a bear?”
It’s natural to be scared of bears. They’re wild animals, 300 pounds or even 700 pounds large, deemed ferocious since they were killed for sport in the Roman Colosseum between gladiator matches. They’re fought in prestige films like The Revenant (and more ridiculous ones like Cocaine Bear), and hiking guidebooks describe how not to piss them off.
When a bear hurts a human, it can be too gruesome for even highbrow cinema; in his documentary Grizzly Man,
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