Man-Thing (film)
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| Directed by | Brett Leonard |
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| Written by | Hans Rodionoff |
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| Music by | Roger Mason |
| Cinematography | Steve Arnold |
| Edited by | Martin Connor |
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| Distributed by | Lions Gate Films |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $1.1 million |
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| Released | March 17, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 66:28 | |||
| Label | Nice Spot | |||
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Man-Thing (also known as Man-Thing: The Nature of Fear) is a 2005 Australian-American horror film, directed by Brett Leonard and featuring the Marvel Comics swamp creature Man-Thing created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway. The plot is based on a storyline by Steve Gerber, who wrote the best-known series of Man-Thing comics. Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster.
The film appeared on the Sci Fi Channel in 2005 under the Sci Fi Pictures label. It starred Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, and Jack Thompson. The film was released theatrically in a handful of International markets. The film was a box office bomb grossing only $1 million and received generally negative reviews from critics. It was considered by many to be among the worst films ever made, and among the worst films ever made by Marvel Entertainment.
At Dark Waters, a Native American sacred land containing an enigmatic swamp spirit, a teenager is murdered by a plant-like monster. The following day, young replacement sheriff Kyle Williams reaches Bywater and meets with deputy sheriff Fraser, who tells him the previous sheriff is among 47 missing persons since oil tycoon Fred Schist bought the ancient tribal lands from shaman and Seminole chieftain Ted Sallis, the first to disappear. Schist claimed Sallis had sold the lands legally and then escaped with the money. Schist then asked the sheriff for help: Local protestors opposed his perfectly legal activities, and mestizo scoundrel Renee Laroque was sabotaging his facilities. Williams investigates this while trying to find an explanation for the missing people, some of which were found brutally murdered with plants growing from inside their bodies. Photographer Mike Ploog and shaman Pete Horn tell Williams local legends about the guardian spirit, suggesting that it could be real.
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