Saturday, June 7, 2014

The Manitou (1978)

How bad is it? It's a ludicrous premise with one bad acting performance.
Should you see it? I've fallen asleep watching it, but I still say yes.

Poor Susan Strassberg has a 400 year-old Indian shaman spirit dwarf growing out of her neck (no, really, that's the plot). Tony Curtis, in perhaps his worst acting performance, comes to the rescue with a climax in a refrigerator. The make-up, mechanical and special effects are actually pretty good; it's just the incredibly weird idea of the film that makes one laugh. Michael Ansara is miscast, but gets upstaged by Stella Stevens as a gypsy. Ann Sothern and Burgess Meredith also appear.

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