Review – The Manitou

This is more sensitive to American Indian culture than the average John Wayne movie, but not by much. A woman (Susan Strasberg) goes to the hospital to have a growth removed only to discover that the thing is a rapidly-growing fetus. And to make matters worse, the thing is possessed by the spirit of an evil Indian shaman who will destroy the Earth as soon as he’s fully reincarnated. And to make matters worse, before the unsuccessful removal surgery the doctors hit it with a mess of X-ray radiation, so it’s going to come out mutated. And to make matters worse, the poor woman’s only hopes for rescue are a fake psychic (Tony Curtis) and a reluctant medicine man (Michael Ansara, who just for the record is of Syrian descent). And to make matters worse, the evil can only be defeated by channeling the “manitous” of all the computers in the hospital. And to make matters worse, I actually watched the whole thing from beginning to end. See if desperate