The Manitou

Oh this was a glorious hot mess of a film that takes some crazy turns that leave you just head scratching in the best possible way if you love some insane story action. This hits the ground running with a woman with a neck-growth that needs to be removed but alas we…

pirateneckbeard

Full fledged 70’s insanity—loaded with everything you’d expect to see in a bonkers genre jam of that era yet managing to be unexpected with its delivery while successfully churning out plenty of wtf moments. Tony Curtis as a hack tarot card reader rules, that Lalo score…

Ian West

this might be one of the strangest 70s horror films i've seen, which would normally be a good thing, but there are so many extremely slow scenes that are keeping me from giving this a higher rating. i will say that the last 30 or so minutes are absolutely wild and make it…

haley

Just ignore the rating. It's not important. The Manitou is not what you'd call a "good" film. It is, however, some kind of batshit wonderful. In a way, the premise compels it to be crazy: How can you make a movie about a 400-year-old Native American shaman who appears in…

Scott Tobias

Watch the first 1:15 and enjoy it. Watch the last 30 mins and LOVE IT

Paul Scheer

In this house, we really do love a batshit crazy 70’s horror film that ends with a spectacular animated/cgi’d/whatever’d psychedelic light show and that is very much a thing that happened here! Tony Curtis as a sham psychic is terrific and the idea of another person…

Tony the Terror

I am grateful for Shudder not because of their original content or that they have a bunch of films streaming that I own multiple physical copies of but rather for adding off the beaten path horror films that have been lost to time and memory. If not for them adding The…

Jesse

"The Manitou" is a late 70's supernatural effort that connects with properties multiple different properties that makes its a completely unique experience. Really with that experience examined, I can see how some can really dig the film and its completely almost absurd…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Typical story of good vs bad where good is Burgess Meredith, who I'm not entirely sure knew that he was in a movie when a bunch of people showed up at his house to discuss Native American mythology, and bad is the fact that one can practically smell the potent mix of…

laird