Maneater (2007)

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

Director:

Gary Yates

Writer:

Philip Morton

Stars:

Gary Busey, Ian D. Clark, Ty Wood

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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	...	Lambert
Kristen Harris	...	Kathy Kurick
Aaron Hughes	...	Sergeant Howe
Susan Kelso
Stephen Eric McIntyre	...	(as Stephen McIntyre)

Storyline

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

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Plot Keywords:

boy | tiger | small town | sheriff | hunter | 

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Taglines:

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

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Devorador

Filming Locations:

Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Peace Arch Entertainment Group, Paquin Entertainment Group, Buffalo Gal Pictures

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Based on the novel 'Shikar' by Jack Warner.

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Goofs

The small jeeps the US Army is using in the movie are called Iltis, and were used by the Canadian Forces. They were in the process of being phased out when this movie was made, and were never used by the US military.

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Connections

Referenced in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #20.159 (2012)

User Reviews

Not your average creature feature, but not a great one either

So yes, it's called Maneater, which is dodgy, and yes it looks as if it was shot with a budget of about $12.50, and yes it's clichéd and cheesy, but it was about a million times better than I was expecting it to be.

Gary Busey plays Sheriff Grady Barnes, who is the main main character (yeah, double "main", there's a few, they can't decide which to follow). There's a tiger (just a regular tiger, which surprised me, not like, 500 kilo, 10 metre long killing machine, just a Bengal) loose in his hick-town, and they don't take too kindly to tigers 'round these parts. Seriously though, it's an actual tiger, no CG, not even a puppet, it's a genuine freaking tiger. The acting was much better than I thought it'd be, the most terrible was just from the red-shirts, who basically don't even count. The setting was believable and the characters were bearable.

That is not however to say, that the movie was good, or even remotely interesting for that matter. I say it was about a million times better than I thought it was, but I had it pegged as bad as it was, then a whole lot worse. At the end of the day it's just another film that seemed to have been made for the sake of being made. Gary Busey's usual wild charisma was noticeable, literally in only a single line. And that's pretty much it.

There's an evil Christian mother, but she's not that evil. I mean, compare her to the bitch from Carrie and she's like mother-of-the-year award material, she just doesn't let her son go to school or play make-believe games, they had room to make her big-bad, but didn't. Then there was her son, who has some bizarre connection to the tiger, he sleep walks, he's a traumatised little kid, so of course he must be twisted, right? No wrong, no Michael Myers secreted away here. Ah, and that British hunter, a foreigner! Surely he is the human menace! No? He's not? Oh, just another guy who gets a whole lot of screen time but does nothing? Yeah, figured.

So, if someone told me they wanted to watch it, I probably wouldn't go so far as to kill them for even suggesting such a thing, but I'd probably leave the room.

-Gimly