A bear "high" on cocaine who sows terror among the population, leaving behind victims and wounded.
It is the absurd plot of a film signed by the actress and director Elizabeth Banks , to be released in Italy next April, but which has already become a coincidence in the USA, to the point that for many the film is destined to turn into a small cult of the horror-catastrophic-demented genre, like "Sharknado", where instead to reap death and devastation were sharks sucked into a tornado.
What many don't know is that the idea behind the film comes from a true story: that of a black bear found lifeless in December 1985, in the US state of Georgia .
The carcass was subjected to an autopsy and the examination showed that the animal's blood and stomach were full of cocaine.
Investigations were therefore triggered and it was concluded that the bear had ingested part of a load of drugs that had crashed some time before from the plane piloted by drug trafficker Andrew Thornton who, to escape the police, got rid of the illegal load, and then jumped off with a parachute .
Thornton's lifeless body was found in Tennessee, that of the bear - later nicknamed Pablo Escobear - was embalmed and is now on display in Lexington, Kentucky.
The story, as mentioned, inspired Banks' film but, compared to reality, there is a substantial difference: the Georgia bear who gave the idea for the plot has never killed anyone under the effects of drugs .
(Unioneonline/lf)
