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The Sentinel
Why this pick
Like The Manitou, it turns an urban medical vulnerability into escalating occult dread, mixing psychic unease, grotesque imagery, and unapologetically heightened 1970s supernatural horror.
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MOVIE1978 1h 44m CAN
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The Medusa Touch
Why this pick
A close-era companion in which psychic power, hospital-bound investigation, and a grim sense of impending catastrophe create the same lurid, paranoid occult atmosphere.
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The Brood
Why this pick
Its clinical settings and disturbing physical manifestations echo The Manitou’s fusion of bodily horror with an unseen force, though with a colder and more psychologically focused style.
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The Legacy
Why this pick
This similarly extravagant occult chiller pairs a threatened couple with a mysterious supernatural power and builds toward the kind of surreal, high-stakes horror spectacle that defines The Manitou.
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The Devil's Rain
Why this pick
For the same pleasure in pulpy occult mythology, psychic confrontation, and boldly theatrical effects, this Satanic horror delivers a comparably strange 1970s nightmare.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A woman named Karen (Strasberg), who is suffering from a growing tumor on her neck, enters a hospital in San Francisco. After a series of X-rays, the doctors begin to think it is a living creature: a Fetus in fetu being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin; the tumorous growth perceives itself – himself – to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain its nature, which are starting to stunt and deform its development. The growth is the old Native American shaman, The Lurker at the Threshold#Misquamacus; he is reincarnating himself through the young woman to exact his revenge on the white men who invaded North America and exterminated its native peoples. Karen's boyfriend, psychic fortune teller Harry Erskine (Curtis) contacts a second Native American shaman, John Singing Rock (Ansara), to help fight the reincarnating medicine man, but the kind of spirits he can summon and control appear to be too weak to match his opponent's abilities.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tony Curtis
Harry Erskine
Stella Stevens
Amelia Crusoe
Jon Cedar
Dr. Jack Hughes
Ann Sothern
Mrs. Karmann
Burgess Meredith
Dr. Snow
Jeanette Nolan
Mrs. Winconis
Hugh Corcoran
MacArthur
Michael Ansara
John Singing Rock