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« on: June 23, 2007, 09:33:24 AM »

wow


     What's so insane about this movie is how conventionally the director tells the story of a woman with a man growing on her back.  You could really go crazy watching this.   It's not "experimental" at all.  the closest thing I could compare it too would be either "The Exorcist" or a shaw brothers horror like "seeding of a Ghost". 

   I've never done PCP before but iI imagine it's sort of like this.  a nightmare but an awesome nightmare.  highest recommendation.
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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2007, 07:30:39 AM »

I posted some comments about this a few months after I bought the DVD.  Tony Curtis has no shame.
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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2007, 07:56:00 AM »

What "Wows' me about it Lester is the fact that you didn't know about Andrew's review.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/manitou/index.html


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« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2007, 08:56:07 AM »

I saw the review afterwards.  i actually saw Soul Venegence the same evening and saw he had a review for that too.  I liked it alot more than he.


I loved the movie but didn' t like Tony Curtis in the lead.  I wonder if Susan Stassburg used the strassburg method when she was battling the manitou nude
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2015, 12:25:27 PM »

This incredibly ROTTEN movie THE MANITOU (1978) was on TCM this morning.  I left it on, but only watched parts... I saw it like 35 years ago on cable and it was another one of those yech cable movies (like THE BROOD).  I knew what I was in for, but the cast is amazing!!!  ANN SOTHERN is in here!  STELLA STEVENS... PAUL MANTEE (and his wife I guess)... TONY CURTIS SUSAN STRASBERG MICHAEL ANSARA (who is great as always)!!!  Apparently ALL these actors were at the NADIR of their careers.  

Andrew's review is hilarious...!!!  I particularly enjoyed the sound-bytes.  
And that clip of SUSAN STRASBERG...she sure is enjoying herself!  
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Here is the whole damned movie and Andrew is right... could the credits be any longer for this ROTTEN movie????
Okay, okay there was a bit of hyperbole there, they are just over 3 minutes.  THREE f**kING MINUTES!!!  Really?  To achieve... this???  

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« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2015, 08:35:05 AM »

I guess eleven spaces after a period and two sentence reviews were my steez in 2007. Now I've moved up to one space and 4 sentences.

I included this movie in my 5 Excellent Films http://lesterhalfjr.blogspot.com/2012/04/5-excellent-films.html

along with Swept Away and Der Globolinks
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2015, 02:33:58 PM »

I have a real soft spot for this.   It was a USA Up All Night/Night Flight feature, I think. 
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2015, 06:56:59 PM »

The trailer for The Manitou looks like the bomb!  I just might have to watch this.  It's not based on the Graham Masterton book, is it?
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« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2015, 02:45:29 PM »

The trailer for The Manitou looks like the bomb!  I just might have to watch this.  It's not based on the Graham Masterton book, is it?

It is.  The book is much better.
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2015, 03:57:06 AM »

Oh!  The tralier makes it look way too goofy to be a Masterton adaptation.  I always think of Masterton books as being hyper-real, super gritty movies, more like the early Saw movies or similar.  This looks like a cross between From Beyond (1986) and The Gate (1987), with a bit of Phantasm thrown in.
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2015, 09:32:36 PM »

Oh!  The tralier makes it look way too goofy to be a Masterton adaptation.  I always think of Masterton books as being hyper-real, super gritty movies, more like the early Saw movies or similar.  This looks like a cross between From Beyond (1986) and The Gate (1987), with a bit of Phantasm thrown in.
THE MANITOU wishes it were as good as any of those. 
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« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2015, 06:09:08 AM »

In South Africa, sick bags were issued at the film's premiere.  TeddyR TeddyR
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« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2015, 03:41:15 PM »

In South Africa, sick bags were issued at the film's premiere.  TeddyR TeddyR
I suppose sick bags were an enticement.  In THE MANITOU BURGESS MEREDITH (yup, him) asks if SUSAN STRASBERG is  a "young woman" to which TONY CURTIS agrees... somewhere in there, too, her age is announced as "28"...  She was 40. 
Andrew's sound bytes are wonderful! 
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« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2015, 08:42:39 PM »

She was great in Scream of Fear (1961) b & w horror
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« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2015, 04:01:46 PM »

In South Africa, sick bags were issued at the film's premiere.  TeddyR TeddyR

I wish I had one while I was watching the DVD.  I could have filled it with vomit and thrown it at the TV screen.

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