High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 Sci Fi Channel on September 8, 2007. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the film is the third title in the "Maneater" film series produced under an agreement with Sci Fi. Based on Jack Warner`s 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.