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5.3/10
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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.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.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.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Anne Newman Bacal
- 10th-Floor Nurse
- (as Ann Newman-Mantee)
Tenaya Torres
- Mrs. Singing Rock
- (as Tenaya)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShortly before the film's release, director William Girdler was killed in a helicopter crash in the Philippines while scouting locations for a future film.
- Quotes
John Singing Rock: Gitche Manitou? Harry, you don't call Gitche Manitou. He...
Harry Erskine: Oh yeah, well, he's going to get a person-to-person call from me... collect!
- Crazy creditsThe soundtrack during the film's end titles consists of a poorly edited 25-second cue from one of Lalo Schifrin's themes being looped over and over again until reaching the last credit.
- Alternate versionsSome versions of the film include scenes featuring an anesthesiologist (Charles Kissinger); other versions of it do not.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 2 (1996)
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Hey, you oughta see a doctor about that thing on your neck!
How am I going to fill ten lines about this movie? Here goes: There was a time that Tony Curtis was a serious player in movies, he did the one with Sidney Poitier--for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it--and there's Spartacus and a couple of others that showcased some talent, even with a toupee that looks like a . . . toupee. Susan Strasberg, a hormone-flooding beauty who I remember from Toma on ABC back in 1973, was also a serious performer. If you go down the cast list for The Manitou, you see a lot of good A and B grade actors and actresses who must have really needed some quick cash or were possessed--in and out of the movie--as a group by some sort of Native American evil spirit thing that, at one point, I kid you not, manifests itself in a tumor-like blob of ecto-oogy on somebody's neck.
Yech.
That's all I can remember about this movie. I saw it on HBO in 1979 and after thousands of hours of therapy, I recovered. Unfortunately, somewhere during the courtship of my future wife, I discovered that she had a rather large mole on her neck, right under her hairline. I called it Manitou. She didn't get it.
And I'm not ordering the movie from Amazon just to show her why I named her mole!
Yech.
That's all I can remember about this movie. I saw it on HBO in 1979 and after thousands of hours of therapy, I recovered. Unfortunately, somewhere during the courtship of my future wife, I discovered that she had a rather large mole on her neck, right under her hairline. I called it Manitou. She didn't get it.
And I'm not ordering the movie from Amazon just to show her why I named her mole!
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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