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Release Date: 1978

Cast: Paul Mantee, Ann Sothern, Michael Ansara, Jon Cedar, Burgess Meredith, Stella Stevens, Tony Curtis, Jeanette Nolan, Susan Strasberg

Categories: Movies, Indie, Drama Film, Cult, Film Adaptation, Horror, Natural Horror Films

The Manitou is an American horror movie from 1978 with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg, based on a 1975 book by Graham Masterton. The movie is based on an old legend about the Native American spirit-concept Manitou. A woman named Karen (Susan Strasberg), who is suffering from a growing tumor on her neck, enters a hospital in San Francisco. After a series of X-rays, the doctors begin to think it's a living creature, a fetus being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin when the tumorous growth perceives himself to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain... MORE

The Manitou is an American horror movie from 1978 with Tony Curtis and Susan Strasberg, based on a 1975 book by Graham Masterton. The movie is based on an old legend about the Native American spirit-concept Manitou. A woman named Karen (Susan Strasberg), who is suffering from a growing tumor on her neck, enters a hospital in San Francisco. After a series of X-rays, the doctors begin to think it's a living creature, a fetus being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin when the tumorous growth perceives himself to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain its nature starting to stunt and malform its development. The growth is actually an old Indian shaman reincarnating himself through the young woman to exact his revenge on white men who invaded North America and exterminated its native peoples. A Native American shaman is contacted and hired to help fight the reincarnating medicine man, but the kind of spirits he can summon and control appear to be too weak to match his opponent. Tagline from the movie: "Evil does not die... it waits... to be reborn". The film was released theatrically in the United States by AVCO Embassy Pictures in 1978. The LESS