The Manitou
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Movie Reviews of The Manitou
Movie Review: Schlock horror
Summary: 2 Stars
How can you not love a film where the invitations to the South African premiere were printed on barf bags? Especially when it has a pitch as insane as The Manitou, which sees Susan Strasberg growing the foetus of a 400-year-old reincarnated Native American medicine man in her neck and calling on Tony Curtis' psychic for help. Of course, Curtis being a phoney he seeks help himself, first from Stella Stevens' gypsy and then, deciding to fight fire with fire, Michael Ansara's medicine man. Ansara gives a surprisingly good performance considering the material, but even his Indian magic isn't enough to fend off an evil Felix Silla from summoning the Devil himself, who can only be defeated by turning on every computer in the hospital at the same time and Susan Strasberg getting her bits out in a vaguely New Age Meets 2001 finale. Despite the synopsis, unintentional laughs are in short supply, although a sequence where one of Curtis' elderly customers is possessed, floats down the hallway and throws herself down the stairs is a mini-masterclass in ineptitude as it fluctuates between failed attempts at humor and laughable attempts at drama. Still, any film where the co-writer is blown up onscreen and where a frozen nurse is accidentally decapitated isn't entirely without some merit.
Not much in the way of extras - just the trailer and a TV spot - but an acceptable 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.
Movie Review: Effects and Chills Limited
Summary: 2 Stars
THis sounds like such a creepy plot and as a child I couldn't see this exploiter because of the R rating. I finally got to see it recently and there's not much happening here.
William Girdler, producer and director put out some decent B-flicks in the 70's. This one is plain hokey, it starts with a scary premise of a fast growing tumor on a young woman. When doctors find it is a parasitic twin, friend and phony psychic (redundant!) Tony Curtis comes to her aid and jumps to the discovery that an ancient Indian shaman has possessed her. After seeking the help of an Indain spiritualist, there is an "Exorcist"-like showdown between good and evil where the initially decent effects go downhill quickly.
Tony Curtis was once a respectable player, but because of substance problems in the late 70s he appeared in Bad News Bears sequels and clunkers like this. A shame.
Movie Review: My mom went into Labor after watching this movie, but I don't see the big deal!
Summary: 2 Stars
My mom went to go see this movie at the drive in when it was first released. She mentioned that it was one of the most horror filled movies she had ever seen. For about 10 years I have been searching for this film on VHS or DVD, but not until reacently did I get a chance to finally see the legendary movie that made my mom go into labor. See while at the drive in apparenly my mom was so moved by the horror that she started having contractions. Whose to say that perhaps my sister is a demon after all! Finally I got a chance to see the movie, and well by the middle of the flick I fell asleep. My mom would be ashamed of me!Movie Review: 2 Stars--one for Tony Curtis and the other for Burgess Meredith...
Summary: 2 Stars
...because without a doubt they are the best things about this film. Sorry, but having grown up in the 80's and 90's, this story reads like a rejected "X-Files". With a dubious plot laced with extremely bad dialogue, *which Curtis and Meredith managed to gleefully ham up* and tv-movie level special effects, throw in a completely campy seance and a pint-sized medicine-man "demon", I was more amused than creeped out. But if D-list horror is your hemlock, give this one a shot.Movie Review: manitou
Summary: 2 Stars
The acting wasn't the the best and the story line was kind of slow. It definitely wasn't very gory.