The Manitou (1978)
2008-01-03
IMDb Plot Outline: A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
This movie is a fucking classic. The first half builds like a wacky b grade exorcist... but then it goes far beyond that. There's a little something for everyone: fortune tellers, posessions, a seance, psychics, shawmans, machines with minds of their own, oh, and reincarnated fetal demon parasites. This movie seems to take a little from a lot of other movies, but in doing so, seems to lose it's source material and mutate into something all it's own. It's villain is absolutely fucking ridiculus, and yet there's something about it that manages to scare me. The climax is... indescribable. You have to see it to believe it. It's something that in 1978, would have given Star Wars a run for it's money with regard to visual effects. I'm kinda only half serious there. The male lead, is Tony Curtis, father of the famous hermaphrodite, Jaimie Lee Curtis, who starred in Halloween the same very same year this movie dropped. You've got to see this movie to believe it. I'd say this is required viewing for B movie buffs. [5/10]
posted by pureevilmatt @ 18:49,
