Man-Thing
Man-Thing
R | 21 April 2005 (USA)
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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 whose touch burns those who feel fear.

Reviews
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
adonis98-743-186503 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 whose touch burns those who feel fear. The only way that someone could actually see this film it's because of that freaking Marvel Logo that is strapped right and front on the dvd cover of the film. First of all it literally starts like every basic horror film with a young couple trying to have sex and either one of them starts getting killed, then bodies start to appear in bad shape and last but not least the monster gets revealed in crappy cgi form and dies in some stupid way. The End... (0/10)
Bezenby I'm no expert on Marvel - I likes me guardians of the galaxy and the odd X-men film, so I've no idea of what Man-Thing 'should' be like, but I get the feeling he should have been more something, because this film doesn't quite work, no matter what it was supposed to be.In order to save words and web space let me sum up the plot using buzz words only. Environmental destruction. Evil businessmen. Ancient Ethnic minority spirit. New Cop in town. Eco-warrior love interest. Ignorant rednecks. Spiritual native Americans. You get the picture.What annoyed me about the film was that the night scenes in the swamp were very well filmed, and yet instead of using that to create atmosphere the tension is broken up with clichéd sped-up footage that littered these film in the new millennium.Another moan from me is that the film, once it decides it's a horror film and not a superhero film, takes forever to show us Man-Thing! I don't give a crap about all the other folks, show us that actual monster.It's not a complete waste of time, however. It's kind of alright for the most part. They should have added in a bit more gore, took out the clichéd editing and fancy camera-work, and given us more beast. And that's my review of Derek Jarman's Blue.
utgard14 Well this is excrement. It's supposedly about the Marvel Comics character Man-Thing but, in reality, it's a cheap little TV-quality grade-Z horror movie that has very little in common with the comics. Even then, there could be some value in this if it had even the slightest bit of talent behind it. But it doesn't and it sucks. The writing, acting, directing, special effects, music, and pretty much every single other thing you could think of is generic and cheap. The basic plot is that there's a creature in the swamp killing horny teenagers so the town's new sheriff investigates. This guy's the clichéd "big city cop turned country sheriff" character that has appeared in about ten thousand movies. He looks like a cross between Ed Westwick and a young Peter Deluise, so you can imagine what a commanding presence he has. He shows up in the bayou wearing a leather jacket and shades while toothless yokels say things like "You city boys shore are funny." Please. Honestly, just don't with this. It's garbage in every way. If you enjoy shitty made-for-TV/DVD horror movies then go right ahead and poison yourself with this stuff. I'd rather find something more productive to do with my time, like staring at the sun. Oh and Rachael Taylor's in this. Because it was made in Australia. Because that looks just like Louisiana. Because we're all idiots.
dashizer7 I went into this movie knowing it was probably low budget (and it seemed to be), made for TV, and all sorts of things, but something inside me thought there was more to this. I was very wrong and at some point without even knowing who the actors are, anything really about the film besides the "monster" it is named after and appears in the film that this was Australian. Why am I mentioning this being Australian? Because the main female protagonist has an accent an accent that is supposed to be a Southern style bayou like accent, but you hear these glimpses of her real accent her Australian accent and this goes for many of the Australian characters.I find it also tropish, or in a way offensive that every movie dealing with nature and spirits seem to end up with Native Americans. That's not the only offensive thing there are the garish dead bodies which are obviously props, or a guy with make up. ***Spoiler*** One of the dead guys the racist security guard can be seen breathing in the scene where the sheriff kneels down to examine him at the behest of the coroner.I wouldn't say the acting was all bad, and I think the actors did their best but the guy who wrote this sucked, the director was terrible, whoever was in charge of cinematography needs to have been fired. It's an interesting watch just don't expect anything from this besides a cool looking creature.