The Manitou
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Movie Reviews of The Manitou
Movie Review: I've Got You Under My Skin...
Summary: 4 Stars
Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) discovers that what she thought was a tumor on her back, is actually the growing fetus of a 400yo medicine man, and an evil one at that! She is hospitalized and her friend, Harry Erskine (Tony Curtis), who happens to be a "psychic", attempts to help Karen by going to a medium (Stella Stevens) for guidance. After a catastrophic séance, Harry decides to see an anthropologist (Burgess Meredith from Burnt Offerings and The Sentinel), who tells Harry and company that they need another medicine man. Enter Michael Ansara (Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea) as John Singing-Rock, medicine man. Much hocus pocus and hoodoo later, and poor Karen finally unloads the little bugger that's been making her look like Quasimodo. Zish! Bang! Boom! The hospital is transformed into a spiritual battleground, and John Singing-Rock goes to war against the forces of darkness. Yes, THE MANITOU is silly, but it's still a lot of fun to watch! The climax is non-stop hilarity, worth the cost of the movie! William Girdler (Grizzly, Day Of The Animals) makes it all entertaining somehow...Movie Review: Scary Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Manitou is a frightening movie which stars Tony Curtis. I quite enjoyed the film.Movie Review: Silly to be sure, but if you grew up in the 70's this one is still kind of fun
Summary: 3 Stars
Every Friday night growing up at 11:00 o'clock the C.B.S. late night movies would come on. In a time before DVD's, cable(at least where I lived), and VCR's you watched what came on or you watch nothing at all. Friday's were almost always horror movies, first an episode of "The Night Stalker(the best and greatest of all time) and then one or two movies. This is how i first saw "The Manitou" at 11 years old. It was creepy,strange, and mind blowing back then. So the other night my wife and I put the kids to bed curled up together and popped this "gem" in. Time has taken most of the bite out of this one and the silly parts are even worse now, but the charm of this stinker is still there if you look for it.
It seems that an evil medicine man from 300 years ago has decided that Susan Strasberg is the perfect host to be reborn into,so in the guise of a very large boil, he tries to make a come back. Tony Curtis,her lover, isn't very happy about that(would you be) and the supernatural warfare is on.
Like I said nothing great here except old memories and a fond look back to a much simpler time.
Movie Review: Bizarre movie finally is on DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
I was waiting for the DVD release of this movie, and finally it came out!
Very nice widescreen version of the film. My only complaint is that they didn't have more features, but the trailers were nice to see.
Movie Review: OK
Summary: 3 Stars
Another movie I like. One thing I didn't like was the "No stereo" approach to this DVD. I seem to remember the VC had stereo on it and was much better. I miss that.