Maneater is worth a watch for Sheree North. She is about 41 here and smoldering in her mompants. Ben Gazarra is 43 they make a good couple and the movie starts out with decent expectations. I suppose it does deliver as far as being legitimately frightening if tigers are actively trying to hunt you down. But overall the whole thing is just a little too cartoonish, from the RV and motorcycle to the close up shots of Basehart evilly reacting. Once the tigers come it is dark, maybe they hunt at night i don't know, or maybe that makes it more scary, but I hate dark movies where you can't really see what is going on, and from that point on in this movie i couldn't see hardly anything, so that affected my rating. Otherwise this is an okay watch, a couple of parts could have been better conceived. Maybe i wasn't listening close enough i think the two girls are sisters and they are on vacation together. The age difference between the two couples is kind of odd. Gazarra and North could be their parents.
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lanechaffin-964-6319026 August 2023
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searchanddestroy-117 March 2013A rare TV movie from the seventies, as I love above all. A sort of picture where DELIVERANCE would meet MOST DANGEROUS GAME. A pure survival movie, as we find everywhere in recent films, mostly released directly in DVD, at least in France. Thousands of them, and almost all the same schemes. This one is rather exciting, with an exquisite Richard Basehart as the bad guy, the bad lead who's in love with his beasts, two Tigers. Ben Gazzara is the lead good guy who tries to save his family against the evil Basehart and is beasts. Well, I know you'll already have got the topic. The only drawback with this picture is that nearly all action and suspense sequences were shot at night. So the movie is very dark in the pictures. See what I mean. I think of another TV movie, NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW, a title of that kind, which was shot in the same way. Very difficult to follow. Only the very ending is really flat for my taste.