The Manitou

[lester1/2jr]

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.

[The Burgomaster]

I posted some comments about this a few months after I bought the DVD.  Tony Curtis has no shame.

[Ash]

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


Tsk Tsk...

[lester1/2jr]

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

[Allhallowsday]

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!  
"Computers have souls and those spirits can give you the power to fire particle beams from your palms!"    

The Manitou (1978) Trailer  

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???  

The Manitou (1978) # english

[lester1/2jr]

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

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I have a real soft spot for this.   It was a USA Up All Night/Night Flight feature, I think. 
-Ed

[Archivist]

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?

[The Burgomaster]

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.

[Archivist]

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.

[Allhallowsday]

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. 

[Trevor]

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

[Allhallowsday]

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

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! 

[lester1/2jr]

She was great in Scream of Fear (1961) b & w horror

[The Burgomaster]

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

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.