Carny, also known as Jersey Devil in Australia, is a 2009 Canadian television horror film by Syfy and the 17th film in the Maneater Series. The film was directed by Sheldon Wilson and stars Lou Diamond Phillips.
When the sheriff Atlas Lou Diamond Phillips comes to investigate Caps carnival under the local pastors requests, Cap takes him into the tent where the Jersey Devil is being kept for the opening show. The Jersey Devil growls at Atlas from inside his cage and Atlas, shocked at the Jersey Devils hellish appearance, suggests that the Jersey Devil is not safe. During the opening show, the audience is shocked at the sight of the Jersey Devil. All except for the pastors son Taylor Matt Murray and his friend who throws peanuts at the Jersey Devil from the audience. This angers the creature and the Jersey Devil eventually escapes from his cage and begins terrorizing the carnival. He throws a man inside the cage that he had been locked in and escapes the carnival right before flying into the Ferris wheel and injuring himself.Later the following night, the Jersey Devil finds Taylor and his friend hiding in an old barn in the forest when he hears a dog barking at him. The Jersey Devil goes after the dog as Taylor and his friend escape the barn. However, the Jersey Devil eventually finds Taylor hiding under a bridge as his friend hides in an old car. The Jersey Devil lands on the bridge and then looks under it to find Taylor, who he kills and dismembers. Later when Taylors friend, who survived the incident, and his mother are driving down a road in the forest, the Jersey Devil attacks him through the car window and flies off with him. As the mother is gazing at the skies trying to find him, the Jersey Devil drops his dead body on the car right before killing the mother. ........
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