#the manitou 1978

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On January 24, 1979 The Manitou debuted in France.

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The Manitou (1978)

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The Manitou (1978)

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The Manitou (1978)

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August 1981.

Objecting to dumb shit in Shadow of the Hawk (1977) and The Manitou (1978).

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Films Watched in 2023: 95. The Manitou (1978) - Dir. William Girdler

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Manitou Island Lighthouse

Copper Harbor, Michigan, United States

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Constructed: 1850

Automated: 1978

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The Manitou

Graham Masterton’s novel THE MANITOU was hardly great writing, but it had two things going for it: a grimy feel for its New York setting and an attempt to link its plot to Manhattan’s theft from Native peoples (so I guess you won’t find it any Florida public school libraries). Those are both missing from William Girdler’s 1978 film version (streaming on Shudder), which moves the action to San Francisco, where the action keeps stopping for picturesque views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The plot, in which a shaman’s spirit is reborn from a growth on Susan Strasberg’s neck, is defanged because the shaman is now from a tribe that had died out long before white settlers reached the area (so you could show the film in Florida public schools). As a result, he’s just “the other,” a hideous non-white played by little people Felix Silla and Joe Gieb, thereby rendering the film both racist and ableist. It’s clearly just an attempt to work a variation on THE EXORCIST (1973) with effects that can’t approach those of the earlier film. As a fake mentalist who used to date Strasberg, Tony Curtis tries to make the thing work. His early scenes in sessions with older women clients (first Jeanette Nolan and then Lurene Tuttle) have a nice comic rhythm. And even in his later years, he moves with an athlete’s grace. But he can’t conquer the film’s overall tackiness. By the time the shaman emerges from Strasberg’s neck and starts wreaking havoc on a hospital, it’s all just too silly. Curtis and Michael Ansara, as a shaman brought in to fight the evil spirit, have to act scared while wandering through sets that wouldn’t fly in an early video game. When naked Susan Strasberg rises from the seeming dead to join the fray as poorly matted fireballs and lightning bolts fly about, all you can do is laugh. The cast is filled with recognizable names, including Stella Stevens as a medium, Ann Sothern (still beautiful in her sixties and acting up a storm), in one scene as Strasberg’s rich aunt, Paul Mantee as a doctor and Burgess Meredith in a scene-stealing bit as an absent-minded anthropologist.

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La Necesidad de regresar a las raíces del terror/horror. The Manitou

La necesidad de regresar al pasado surge cuando en el presente, y en el venidero futuro, no se encuentra lo que se está buscando para satisfacer alguna curiosidad o evocar alguna vieja emocion que se guarda con añoranza; en lo que se refiere al cine de terror/horror, surge dentro de la audiencia old School ese deseo de ver en películas actuales esas emociones pasadas generadas por buenas películas de terror que acompañaron nuestro gusto por el género desde su inicio. Para ilustrar mi punto usaré como referencia una película de 1978, The Manitou (o Retorno desde la quinta dimensión en algunos países) producida y dirigida por William Girdler, protagonizada por Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara y Susan Strasberg, basada en la novela del mismo nombre The Manitou de 1976 de Graham Masterton, donde se hace narra una vieja leyenda  nativo americana, y cuyo dato curioso tenemos que su director, William Girdler, murió en un accidente de helicóptero en Manila, Filipinas, el 21 de enero de 1978, antes del estreno de la película. La película trata de una joven (Karen Tandy-Susan Strasberg) que padece un tumor en el cuello, y quien es atendida en un hospital de San Francisco donde los médicos le realizan una serie de pruebas, descubriendo un extraño bulto en forma de feto humano el cual no solo tiene vida sino que también contiene el  espíritu de un antiguo hechicero indio llamado «Misquamacus». A partir de este punto pueden imaginarse todo lo que va a suceder dentro de la película, desde exorcismos dentro de un hospital hasta apertura de dimensiones, terminas muy asustado o confundido al mismo tiempo, ya que intentas acompañar al personaje principal durante su agonía y sufrimiento, y a su vez buscar el origen de tanto mal. Obra cinematográfica que marcó mi infancia y mis gustos por el terror, formando parte de las características de lo que espero de una película de este género. Muchos de nosotros tenemos nuestro punto de partida en lo que respecta a los géneros cinematográficos, y los míos suelen ser algo eclécticos, ya que busco la novedad y la originalidad en las obras, no con esto quiero decir que no me guste un buen remake o una buena ecuación dentro de una película, pero siempre estara la necesidad de satisfacer ese deseo de recrear las primeras emociones de lo que para ti fui un buen film. Manitou, es una obra cautivante y, aún hoy en día, solo la he visto una vez, y para mí fue más que suficiente ya que esa impresión aún persiste en mi sistema.

 

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Embryo & The Manitou | Episode 428

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Embryo & The Manitou | Episode 428

Clay Sayre returns to join Jim for a first for the podcast – A MONSTER ATTACK! Double Feature, featuring 1976’s “Embryo,” starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Anne Schedeen, John Elerick, and Roddy McDowall, along with 1978’s “The Manitou,” starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens Jon Cedar, Ann Southern Paul Mantee, and Burgess Meredith. It’s true “Double Feature” fare as Jim and Clay talk about these two cult films from the 70’s and it’s all ahead on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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On April 15, 1978, The Manitou debuted in Japan.

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The Manitou (1978)

Director: William Girdler Starring: Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Michael Ansara 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. I remember reading the book many years ago. I’m not one of those people who compare a book to a film, because it is completely different media. The film immediately plunges the…

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«A solid grindhouse double from two cult directors—William Girdler's final film The Manitou and an exclusive engagement of Jamaa Fanaka's Emma Mae (aka Black Sister's Revenge)—opened at Roosevelt Theatre on July 28, 1978. A nice combo for audiences in The Loop.»

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