The Manitou

1978

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 3789 3.8K

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Plot summary

A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.

Director

William Girdler Photo
William Girdler

Top cast

Jeanette Nolan Photo
Jeanette Nolan as Mrs. Winconis
Tony Curtis Photo
Tony Curtis as Harry Erskine
Joe Dorsey Photo
Joe Dorsey as Dr. Snaith
Stella Stevens Photo
Stella Stevens as Amelia Crusoe
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826.3 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
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1.6 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Brad P 8 / 10

Spooky, sinister, and – most importantly – something

Spooky, sinister, and – most importantly – something different, Girdler's The Manitou is a wild, campy ride that every aficionado of ‘70s horror cinema needs to put on their watchlist.
Reviewed by Ross L 7 / 10

The Manitou is a bonkers journey from medical

The Manitou is a bonkers journey from medical mystery to full blown cosmic horror extravaganza which makes it a great double bill with the classic Phantasm, and the very new Weapons. A very likeable and earthy cast contest with very unlikable and unearthly forces in a movie which very entertainingly keeps upping the ante. The ending is a bit weak, but everything else lightens the narrative wobble. Manitou is a bananas gem!
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Evil does not die…it waits…to be reborn…" Yet

"Evil does not die…it waits…to be reborn…" Yet sadly this would be the last movie for William Girdler, who died in a helicopter crash while scouting locations for his next movie. It's a shame because Girdler had a talent for taking cheap movies with big ideas and making them beyond entertaining. This movie features a wild cast for him, including Tony Curtis as psychic Harry Erskine, Michael Ansara as shaman John Singing Rock and Susan Strasberg as our heroine Karen Tandy — who is suffering from a gigantic growth in her neck that ends up being the reincarnation of Misquamacus, a wonder worker of the Wampanoag tribe. Misquamacus comes from the book of the same name by author Graham Masterton, who brought the villain back in his novels Revenge of the Manitou, Burial, Manitou Blood, Blind Panic and Plague of the Manitou, as well as the short story "Spirit Jump." Plus, there's Stella Stevens, Burgess Meredith, the "First Lady of Radio" Lurene Tuttle, Ann Sothern and Jon Ceder on hand for this body horror by way of possession films by way of Native American hoodoo bit of lunacy. I also kind of dig how the posters would say, "In the grisly tradition of Alien" when it was made a year before that movie.
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