FilmPGDemonic & Possession Witchcraft & Occult Supernatural

The Manitou1978

Name: The Manitou
Genre: Demonic & Possession, Witchcraft & Occult, Supernatural, Sci-Fi Horror
Released: 1978-04-28
Rating: 5.3

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

Directed by William Girdler

5.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.3Rotten Tomatoes 45%Metacritic 47TMDB 5.4

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Year

1978

Runtime

104 min

Box Office

🏆 3 nominations

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

When a woman discovers that a strange growth on her neck is far more than a medical anomaly, her boyfriend — a small-time psychic — is pulled into a desperate race against a force centuries in the making. Rooted in Native American mythology, the film blends medical horror with occult dread as the ancient and the modern collide in increasingly outrageous fashion. Equal parts disturbing and deliriously strange, The Manitou is a late-70s cult oddity that commits fully to its wild premise.

Content: Body Horror, Disturbing Medical Imagery, Occult And Demonic Content, Some Violence