The Manitou...utterly bizarre horror movie from late 70's with Tony Curtis and Burgess Meredith.
Spoilers ahead...
How to describe the plot? Curtis plays a fake medium who gets involved with an old flame, who has a weird growth on her neck...which turns out to be a foetus...who is the reincarnation of an evil shaman.
There are shades of The Exorcist, and it's just kind of...very weird.
It's kind of a last gasp of seventies horror, production values are very good for the time, shot in widescreen.
And the ending with a naked woman firing Star Wars style lasers at an evil shaman is just bonkers.
Watching a recent blu ray release of this, so pic and sound are improved...and there is some making of stuff that i am looking forward to.
But it is a real curiosity piece...just totally nuts. For entertainment value I would put it on a par with Lifeforce...kind of a similar feel to it.
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