Maneater

10/18/2025

**_Dean Cain as a sheriff in rural SoCal where victims are getting torn apart_** Shot in August, 2008, this is a ‘B’ monster movie, but it’s unclear what kind of creature is attacking people until the last act. It could be a werewolf, a man-eating bear, a sasquatch, a wendigo, a masked psycho or something else. I’ll leave it to you to discover. The flick has more in common with “Sweet Sixteen” from the early 80s, as well as the contemporaneous “Dire Wolf” (aka “Dino Wolf”) and the later “Alpha Wolf,” than it does something like the artistic “Wendigo” from 2001. Yet it’s not indie micro-budget horror. In other words, it had a healthy direct-to-video budget. I point that out because the locations, cast, acting, gore, F/X, writing and soundtrack are all proficient, just in a straight-