The Manitou

"Evil does not die… It waits to be re-born!"

Apr 15 1978 PG 1h 44m
Horror, Sci-Fi

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.

Plot

Karen Tandy enters a San Franisco hospital suffering from a tumor growing in her neck. Her surprised doctors think it's a living creature, a fetus being born inside the tumor. Fortune-teller Harry Erskine dismisses it -- until one of his customers begins speaking in tongues and fatally throws herself down a flight of stairs, and Karen's surgeon attempts to cut off his own hand rather than excise her tumor. Erskine finally seeks help from another fortune teller, Amelia Crusoe, and her husband, to try to learn the cause of these supernatural events. When Karen's tumor gets larger, Dr. Snow speculates that within her tumor lives vengeful 400-year-old Indian spirit. Erskine travels to South Dakota to enlist the aid of Indian medicine man John Singing Rock to force the evil spirit out of Karen and back where it came. The Indian spirit is driven from Karen's tumor, but will it take over others before Singing Rock can send him back?

Written by

Graham Masterton, William Girdler, Jon Cedar

Directed by

William Girdler

Production Countries

Canada, United States of America

Production Companies

Manitou Productions Ltd., Mid-America Pictures, Simon Productions, Melvin Simon Productions

Languages

English

Awards

3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
3,487
Average Rating
5.4 out of 10
Metascore
47
Popularity
NA