RHI takes their single movie DVDs and packs them into a 3 pack of films. They've got a whole series of these Maneater films and I have more than a dozen of them in the multi movie format. The 3 packs are all single layer discs and there are no extras. Most of the three packs are $8-12 on Amazon, I got the two I have from Hamilton Books for $3.95 each. I also have a 6 movie set that puts two movies on a disc. The series was produced with SyFy and all the films aired on that channel after being on the video on demand cable channels.
Blood Monkey is a 2006 direct to video horror film about some college students going on a work experience in the Thai jungle. That would be a fuckin' nightmare to me, I wouldn't even want to go there to shoot a movie. The poor saps in the movie have the added bonus of F Murray Abraham using them as bait. He's trying to capture a new species of primate and he'd already lost his first research team to the vicious chompy bastards. Sadly, we see little of the BM's in the 90 minute running time and when we finally do, in the last seconds before the credits, it's just like any CGI movie ape. The movie is nearly the worst of the lot, the poor script by George LaVoo and Gary Dauberman really lowers the score for me. If you watch this sort of movie you've probably seen this story over and over again. People running in the woods being eaten by some critter. The scenery is OK and the production values fairly good. The only interesting thing about the movie is that it was directed by Robert Young. He started directing back in 1972 with Vampire Circus, over the years he managed to direct a few good films and TV shows. The movie that stands out most is Fierce Creatures. He worked on Hammer's House Of Horror, Minder and Jeeves And Wooster. I only gave the movie a 3, it's doubtful that I'll get around to watching it again.
In The Spider's Web is also from 2007 and it's the worst of the lot. I gave it a 3, though I might have given it a 2 except for the one actor. It scores a stunning 3.9 on the IMDb but that's because 215 of the 936 votes are a 10. That's some scamming there. In the movie Lance Henriksen is scamming people out of body parts and selling them on the black market. He's a real steaming pile of shit. The script is pretty tired and there isn't much reason to watch it. Gary Dauberman wrote the script by himself and there are similarities to the first movie in the set. Perhaps Gary lacks imagination? Maybe he's just lazy. This movie's also filmed in Thailand but this time the jungle's pretending to be in India. It hardly matters, either place will kill you. That's what happens to the vacationing college students, picked off, one by one, in the jungle. Lance "helps" them by harvesting their organs. The local police Sergeant, my favorite character in the movie, helps a couple of them survive. I probably won't get back to seeing this anytime soon.
Maneater is a 2007 film and the best in the set. It's written by Philip Morton and directed by Gary Yates. It's a bit of a Jaws copy, there's a deadly predator on the loose, the town has a festival coming up, and the mayor is mad at the Sheriff for telling the news reporters of the tiger. The movie is filmed in Winnipeg and Stonewall Manitoba. Stonewall is pretending to be a small town in the Appalachians. I saw this back in 2016 and thought it was pretty average and thought I didn't need to see it again. I had forgotten that when I watched it. Then I looked it up on the IMDb and saw I had given it a 3 sometime in the past. You can download your votes from the IMDb and sort them by title to make looking up when you rated a movie easy-peasy. I actually liked it better this time around and bumped the score up a notch. I thought it was one of Gary Busey's better performances of late. He's not hardly chewing the scenery like he has been. I liked the kid who dreams of the tiger too. I might watch it again.