Maneater (2007) (TV)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Gary Yates

Writer:

Philip Morton (written by)

Release Date:

2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

How do you hunt the predator when you are the prey?

Plot:

A tiger is loose on a small town and only a young boy, a sheriff and the hunter to destroy the beast. |

Plot Keywords:

Small Town | Tiger | Young Boy | Sheriff | Hunter

Cast

Gary Busey	...	Grady Barnes
Ian D. Clark	...	Colonel Graham (as Ian D Clark)
Ty Wood	...	Roy Satterly
Diana Reis	...	Mary Barnes
Kathryn Albertson
Evelyne Anderson
Mike Bell
Jessica Burleson	...	Eleanor
Mariam Bernstein
Sarah Constible	...	Deputy Sharon Weinman
Marc Devigne
Kristen Harris	...	Kathy Kurick
Aaron Hughes	...	Sargeant Howe
Susan Kelso
Stephen McIntyre

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada

Company:

Peace Arch Entertainment Group

Goofs:

Factual errors: Several of the attack scenes show the tiger charging the victim from the front. All cats, from house mousers to the largest tigers, approach prey from the rear or side, and kill with a bite through the spine at the base of the neck. There are several documented cases of people avoiding big cat attack simply by keeping the approaching animal in front of them.

One of the Better Sci Fi Channel Films

With all the beatings I've dished out to the Sci Fi Channel for its horrible movies, I felt the need to finally post something a little upbeat.

Granted, MANEATER is no classic. But it's not a stinker in the typical Sci Fi Channel sense, either. There's a reasonable script. A few eccentric performances. And a director, Gary Yates, who realizes that CGI is not the best way to convey tension. In fact, he uses a real tiger to play...are you ready for it?...a real tiger. Sheer genius, especially when he has the good sense to hide it for the majority of the picture.

Of course, there's also Gary Busey, looking like he wandered off an accident scene, his hair askew, his suite ill-fitting (the same suit he wears for the entire film). He is truly a wonder to behold. It seems like he's The film, however, belongs to Ian D. Clark, who plays a big game hunter on the trail of the titular beast. He creeps through the underbrush spouting gibberish that wouldn't sound out of place in a martial arts movie, a Buddhist monk with a shotgun bloodlust.

Goofy fun.