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You can tell, right from the start, that this is a low budget film because of the cheap camera and many of the deaths are off screen and accompanied by a bunch a gory body parts to compromise. But, hey, it's a TV movie and part of the Maneater series, so you can't really blame it that much. If only they didn't have that fucking, shity and nerdy religious boy and his stupid mother in the film. But still, recommended !
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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Honesty, it's entertaining. A cuddly looking tiger, gory props, a wacko kid/mother duo, and Gary Busey playing town-sheriff. Plus other goofy elements, what's not to be intrigued by? The tiger gets killed off rather lazily, and the kill-scenes are pretty bland and poorly edited, but it's part of the low budget fun.
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/02/23
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it is the first maneater movie
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/14/23
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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 cliched 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 redshirts, 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
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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Gary Busey usé par l'alcool avec une VF de la mort en mode shériff monolithique V.S. un tigre tueur 2 de tension dans une forêt américaine...hoo yeeah!
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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As a film in general, it fails on nearly every level in my eyes, but as dumb fun I can with friends, it succeeds near flawlessly. 0.5/5, but on an entertainment level, it's a 4.5/5 from me!
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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