The Manitou

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Ross L 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! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/25 Full Review Vicky H This silly nonsense is about a fetus of an ancient Indian shaman growing at the back of Susan Strasberg's neck leading to many insanity. We have scenes such a floating possessed old lady plunging to her death down a stair, evil surgical lazer gun blasting a hospital operating room to smithereens, frozen hospital in another dimension, Star Beast, portals, Satan, Lucifer, the Great Old Ones and many more. And this is not even close of being one of the weirdest movies I ever seen. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/15/23 Full Review Brad P 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/03/23 Full Review Audience Member "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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member I just want to know, what kind of peyote were these guys taking to consider this a reasonable plot for a movie. It is the most insane nonsense you can think of for a horror movie that's taking itself seriously. I mean seriously... a native American wizard midget grows himself from the NetherRealm on the neck-boil of a woman, only to be reincarnated and fight a Medicine Man in space, who's aided by the spirits of computers. I'm not joking. This is a real movie. This is trash, but it's glorious, and you're not soon to forget it. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/06/20 Full Review Audience Member I need tit pics to harness a hospital's worth of Manitous so I can use them to banish Lucifer himself who's taken the form of an ancient Indian medicine man named Tomacus who recently regrew himself in the back tumor of a woman named Karen after being dead for 400 years. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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