Manticore
Director: Tripp Reed
Genre: Television movie, Monster movie, Action/Adventure, Action, Thriller
Year: 2005
Country: United States of America
Starring: Jeff Fahey, A. J. Buckley, Robert Beltran, Heather Donahue, Faran Tahir, Chase Masterson, Michael Cory Davis, Richard Gnolfo
Manticore is a Sci Fi 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 squad of United States Army soldiers in Iraq that must fight against a resurrected, nearly unstoppable manticore awoken from its slumber by an Iraqi insurgent leader.
United States Army Soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division stationed in Iraq are sent on a search to look for missing journalists. They come to a small Iraqi town and find a man-eating monster instead. The soldiers find out that the residents of the town are dead and discover a living "Weapon of Mass Destruction," a Manticore. The Manticore was awakened from its long slumber by an Iraqi insurgent leader wanting to rid the country of foreign occupation forces at any price.
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