Underplayed Gems

Maneater (2007)

Maneater poster
Directed by
Gary Yates
Genre
horror film, television film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, natural horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An escaped Bengal tiger terrorizes a small town along the Appalachian Trail. A sheriff and a big game hunter try to stop the killings while a young boy with a connection to the tiger wants to save it.

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What happens

Maneater is a 2007 American television natural horror film directed by Gary Yates and produced by RHI Entertainment, starring Gary Busey, Ty Wood, and Ian D. Clark. The film aired on various video on demand channels, before officially premiering in the United States on the Syfy Channel on September 8, 2007. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the film is produced under an agreement with Syfy. Based on Jack Warner's novel Shikar, the film details the killing spree of an escaped Bengal tiger after it gets loose in a small town along the Appalachian Trail. Trying to stop it are Sheriff Barnes (Busey) and big game hunter Colonel Graham (Clark), while a young boy named Roy (Wood), who has a strange connection to the tiger, tries to save it. It is the fourth film in the Maneater film series. Maneater is one of the few films in the series to break the standard formula of Syfy natural horror films with its use of a normal, living tiger rather than a CG animal or excusing its behavior by having it be a mutant or genetically altered. Critics panned the film citing substandard acting, heavy use of stereotypical characters, a hole-filled plot, unused subplots, and the use of a live tiger resulting in almost all attacks being implied rather than seen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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