Maneater (2007 film)

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. This film lends its name to the film series to which it belongs and is the third film in the series. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the film is produced under an agreement with Syfy. Based on Jack Warners 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 4th film in the Maneater Series.

Two people disappear along the Appalachian Trail a young man jogging with his girlfriend and a hermit who rarely leaves his home. Sheriff Grady Barnes Gary Busey finds a trail in the woods which leads him to parts of the hermits body. That night, young Roy Satterly Ty Wood is reading by flashlight when a Bengal tiger briefly appears in front of his bedroom window. In the morning, his mother, Rose Marina Stephenson Kerr, finds him sleepwalking in the woods in front of their house. A cast taken at the next victims scene points to a tiger as the hermits killer, so Sheriff Barnes holds a press conference to warn the public. The Bengal Tiger visits Roys home again that night.A tabloid paper offers a 10,000 reward for the tiger causing the town to be inundated with hunters and reporters. The sheriff forbids anyone from going in the woods and hunting the tiger, but while out with Deputy Sharon Weinman Sarah Constible, he sees Roy in the woods. They give chase, but instead find a dead tabloid reporter. The National Guard is called in to help. The sheriff later sees Roy in the woods again and warns him to stay out before taking him home and giving Rose the same warning. After he leaves, she mistakenly believes Roy told the sheriff lies about there being a tiger and chastises him. ........

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