Tony Curtis battles 400-year-old evil spirits in the most bizarre all-star horror film of the 70s, The Manitou.
To this her doctor replies, I dont think its anything to worry about.
Genre fans in the 70s and 80s were swamped with Native American-themed horror films.
The scene is never fully explained or much revisited, existing mostly as a set piece.
The manifest evil spirit was played by two stuntmen/actors, Felix Silla and Joe Gieb.
But even though theyre in outer space, see, theyre really in a hospital room.
On a technical level alone the film had a slickness to it that was absent from his earlier films.
He was finally getting a handle on things like lighting and tracking shots and editing.
Who knows what other kind of weirdness he had in store?
But watching it again I found myself asking why that should matter.
Look at any life; any historical event with cold reason, and it rarely makes any logical sense.
Stuff just happens, some of it pretty damned weird and inexplicable.
Its just the way things work sometimes.
So I guess what Im saying here is thatThe Manitouis a brilliant and insightful metaphor for human life itself.
Or if not that exactly, its still highly imaginative, entertaining, and utterly pointless.
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Rating:
3.5 out of 5
