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The Manitou is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Girdler released in USA on 28 april 1978 with Tony Curtis

The Manitou (1978)

The Manitou
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Released in USA 28 april 1978
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Horror
Rating53% 2.6536452.6536452.6536452.6536452.653645

The Manitou is an American horror film 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 American Indian spirit-concept Manitou.

Synopsis

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 is a living creature: a fetus being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin; the tumorous growth perceives itself – himself – to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain its nature, which are starting to stunt and deform its development. The growth is actually the old Native American shaman, Misquamacus; he is reincarnating himself through the young woman to exact his revenge on white men who invaded North America and exterminated its native peoples. A second 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's abilities.

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