Michael Ledo Harry Baily (Dean cain) is a profiler who is almost like a psychic detective. He lives in the small California town of Blackwood with his daughter Pearl (Lacy Phillips) and his wife (Shea Curry) who he is still waiting for her to come back from the store. A series of killings in town causes one to believe a Wendingo shapeshifter (looks like a Morlock) in on the loose.This is a basic 80's style horror film, a little humor, a little teen sex, a bad looking monster, and three minimum nude scenes. Guide: F-word, sex, nudity (Nikki Moore, Allison Kyler, Mercy Malick)

Paul Magne Haakonsen When I picked up this movie, I had no idea what it was about, or who was in it. I saw the DVD cover and decided to give it a go."Maneater" wasn't actually all that bad. It was, however, fairly mediocre, sad to say. There was nothing really unique that stood out in this movie.It is about an native American Indian legendary creature called Wendigo. It supposedly drags off the impure, sinners and bad people and kill them. I am not personally familiar with the legend of the Wendigo, so I had no expectations for this storyline. And I found it to be adequate enough, just interesting enough to still be entertaining.The effects in "Maneater" were alright as well, not top notch CGI and special effects, but still, they were working out well enough. However, the Wendigo itself sort of reminded me a bit of the Crypt Keeper from "Tales from the Crypt", though with odd glowing eyes. So it left me sort of in a dilemma; was this Wendigo undead or just some sort of creature?Initially when I saw Dean Cain in the lead role, I sort of though this would be bad, as I am (clearly) not a fan of his work. But he actually did alright in "Maneater", and it is great to see he have finally shed that "Louis and Clark" mantle."Maneater" wasn't really particularly scary, so if you are in this for a scary movie, then this might not be the ideal choice. The story is alright, but there are far better horror movies available. Having seen this movie now, I somehow feel like it was meant as a TV movie.

Tony Heck "We got a thing, a people may be dead thing." After a brutal murder takes place Sheriff Bailey (Cain) is called to investigate. After his dreams become more and more real he wonders if they hold the key to solving the crime. This movie has a combination of many ideas from other movies, and when put together in this movie...none of them really work. This is pretty much a movie that has talking in between the sex, nudity and gore. The acting is not that impressive, and the effects are pretty low budget. The overall idea is that there is a serial killer on the loose and going after people while they are having sex, because when the killer watches, only then can it turn into the killing form. I'm not kidding. Overall, not a very good movie, but when Dean Cain is the biggest name they can get the expectations are a little lower. Overall, there have been worse horror movies that have come out, but not many. I give it a C-.Would I watch again? - Nope.*Also try - Mask Maker

Paul Andrews Maneater is set in a small rural peaceful US town where ex-FBI profiler Harry Bailey (executive producer Dean Cain) is the Sheriff, one morning the peace is shattered when a badly burnt body of a man is found & just chunks of ripped apart flesh of what used to be his girlfriend. Harry is on the case but the coroner (Conrad Janis) says that a sample taken from the crime scene has him puzzled as it's not human but not animal either, in fact he describes it as almost human. Various towns people go missing as panic spreads, then Harry's daughter Pearl's (Lacy Phillips) slutty best friend Kay (Nicole Moore) goes missing & Pearl decides to look for whatever took her which causes Harry all sorts of problems as he can't control the towns people who want answers & he can't quite believe what the evidence suggests as ancient legends of shape-shifting monsters seem to be the only thing that makes sense...Co-written, co-produced & directed by Michael Emanuel this is yet another Sci-Fi Channel style 'Creature Feature' that is maybe a touch better then the average example, at the time of writing this comment there are no other comments or external reviews on the IMDb so maybe this has not been widely released yet & in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the Sci-Fi Channel snapped it up & aired it as it's right up their street. Right, where to start? Well firstly a lot of the running time of Maneater is spent on domestic dramas as Harry & his daughter Pearl have the usual parent child arguments going on & then there's Harry's missing wife, Pearl's new boyfriend & her best friend going missing & as such at times Maneater relegates it's creature feature elements to merely a side issue which is not good since the only reason anyone is likely to want to watch this is because of the monsters. The plot is alright, there's not a whole lot of explanation behind the creatures except for the dull Native American Indian legend cliché & there's a reasonable twist ending that while not exactly Earth shattering show's a little more effort than the usual 'Creature Feature'. Of course Maneater does have it's problems like there not being enough monster action & Harry manages to solve the entire case by doing an internet search from which he finds out everything about the Maneater he needs to & is a lazy way for the writers to wrap the film up.The one thing that stands out about Maneater is that it has quite a lot of nudity & sex in it, the first half an hour or so has two sex scenes & four pairs of exposed breast's which is pretty good going. Unfortunately the gore factor isn't as high, there's a ripped off head, a ripped off arm, a badly burned man, a chunk of flesh & some blood splatter but little else although the actual monsters here look pretty good & the make-up effects are good too. Shot in full 2:35:1 widescreen not many horror films are so it's nice to see & it's filmed with a very natural colour scheme as the majority of scenes seem to be lit by the sun with shafts of light coming in log cabins through windows & the like. Maneater looks pretty good & doesn't look as low budget as it might have.The production values are good although forgettable, the acting is alright if not exactly great with Dean Cain the only name in the cast of any interest.Maneater isn't a bad little 'Creature Feature' style horror film although it's not any sort of masterpiece, there's some gore, some nudity & the odd twist which should keep most happy for an hour & a half if they know what they are going in to. Not to be confused with Maneater (2007) the made-for-telly 'Creature Feature' with Gary Busey about a killer tiger.