Animal Instincts vs Hair of the Bear

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5/10 for Animal Instincts). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 36m. Animal Instincts is the older of the two (1992 against 2026). Both are drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Animal Instincts posterAnimal Instincts1992 VS Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026
Animal InstinctsHair of the Bear
Audience score★ 5.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year19922026
Length1h 36m1h 32m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama, Thriller
Country–Canada
DirectorGregory DarkAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellan
Main castShannon Whirry, Maxwell Caulfield, David Carradine, Jan-Michael Vincent, Delia SheppardMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan Lawrence

Synopsis

Animal Instincts

A cop and his sexually frustrated wife are struggling to keep their failing marriage intact, when by chance she finds that he is at heart a voyeuristic peeping tom. To satisfy him and herself, his wife has numerous affairs, which her husband watches on closed-circuit televison. However, the pair soon learn that when you play with fire, you'll always get burned.

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

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