Manticore (film)
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Manticore was a Scifi original movie that aired on the Sci Fi channel on November 26, 2005. It was directed by Tripp Reed and featured Heather Donahue, Chase Masterson and Robert Beltran. It is about a U.S. Army squad in Iraq that must fight against a resurrected, nearly unstoppable manticore awoken from its slumber by a terrorist.
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[edit] Plot
U.S. Army Soldiers in Iraq that are looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead. They are sent to a small Iraqi town to locate a missing newscrew, only to find the residents of the town dead and a living Weapon of Mass Destruction, a Manticore, awakened from its long slumber by a terrorist leader wanting to rid the country of foreign occupation forces at any price.
[edit] Manticore (Monster of Film)
This creature, which looked like a deformed lion with a dragon's wings and a scorpion's tail, had the power to regenerate from any type of wounds and had a voracious appetite. It could spit acid and shoot spines from its tail. In the film, there were originally two Manticores which could only be stopped by being forced to look at each other, at which point they both turned to stone. One Manticore was destroyed in the process of resurrection, however. The surviving members of the squad destroy the remaining monster by using its own reflection to turn it to stone and then shattering it.
[edit] Cast
- Robert Beltran as Master Sergeant Tony Baxter
- Heather Donahue as Kinks
- Chase Masterson as Ashley Pierce
- Michail Elenov as Fathi
- Edmund Druilhet as Sergeant Cohen
- Jonas Talkington as Mouth
- Jeff Fahey as Major Spence Kramer
- Richard Gnolfo as John Busey
- Jeff M. Lewis as Ortiz
