The Manitou (1978) on Netflix
Karen Tandy's lump keeps growing, and the x-rays at her San Francisco hospital show a fetus inside it. She turns to Harry Erskine, a fortune teller.
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Plot summary
Karen Tandy goes to a San Francisco hospital because of a lump on her neck that will not stop growing. X-rays lead Dr. Jack Hughes to tell her a fetus is forming inside it, and she agrees to surgery. While she waits, she stays with Harry Erskine, an old friend and former employer who works as a fortune teller. Asleep at his place, Karen mutters words that stay in Harry's ear; awake, she says they mean nothing to her. The operation goes wrong when the surgeon's hands shake and he cuts himself with the scalpel. One of Harry's clients has a seizure and says the same words, then rises off the floor and falls down the stairs. Convinced that black magic is at work, Harry turns to a former psychic and her aunt for a seance at Karen's home.
Cast
- Hugh Corcoranas MacArthur
- Anne Newman Bacalas 10th-Floor Nurse
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Manitou (1978)
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- Director William Girdler died in a helicopter accident before The Manitou reached cinemas, making the 1978 film the last feature he made.
- The manitou of the film's story is a real concept in Native American theology: the Algonquian peoples believed it was a spiritual and fundamental life force, which inspired Graham Masterton's 1976 novel.
