awful ( and i mean awful ) horror flick use native american folklore and undermine it for unintentional laugh be an embarrassing statement about tony curtis career ( this be the same actor who star in sweet smell of success and some like it hot ) . he play a suppose fortune teller name erskine ( mostly work cash from wealthy old widow ) whose lady love karen ( susan strasberg ) have a grow fetus on her back ( . ) . come to find out the fetus ( which be grow at an alarm rate ) be actually the spirit of a powerful medicine man and misquamacas . during a séance thanks in part to orchestrator and mystic amelia ( stella stevens and dress in blackened face paint with gypsy garb ) who be erskine teacher in the tarot art and the spirit of misquamacas reveals himself which lead them to the home of dr. snow ( burgess meredith and play this doctor very quirky and evade with a sense of senility ) who write a book on native american folklore which mention spirit invade the body of innocent so that could emerge into reality . snow tell erskine their only possible route to save susan be fight fire with fire by call on a living native american medicine man . erskine and after be reject by other medicine men and get deep voice john singing rock ( . out of all the name the filmmaker could have come up with actor michael ansara be stick with this one ) to lend him a hand . we be inform through sing rock that manitous ( those spirit ) can manifest themselves in anybody or thing . so even x ray machine have manitous ( i kid you not ) . after and sing rock call on the spirit of wind and tree and and just nature in general and his circle of dust surround karen bed seem destine for cross since that thing grow in her back emerges from the skin a a native american midget with a vile visage . misquamacas call on various demon to kill hospital personnel and make the hospital operation room floor into an icy fortress and shake dr. hughes ( jon cedar ) room with erskine and singing rock and others resemble lottery ball ready for pluck and and turn karen room into a place of star with only her bed and misquamacas visible . in a major climactic battle and when misquamacas call on the main satanic demon to assist him and erskine love will help the computer manitou spirit ( . ) within the entire hospital send volt through karen finger ( with her naked body expose ) with mankind possible existence hanging in the balance . whatever . the absolutely preposterous premise and horrendously awful special effect sequence in the major battle towards the end will surely make this a cult classic . no matter how terrible any film be and it sure to find an audience willing to accept it into their arm with love . not me . it terrible in every conceivable way imaginable . i can not and for the life of me and understand why curtis and meredith would step foot in such a thing a this . use native american folklore can certainly work in the horror genre and but in this flick it embarrassingly over the top . i mean the scene where the midget misquamacas spirit exit strasberg back i couldn not help but laugh . it suppose to be horrify and but wind up be jaw droppingly hilarious . the scene where one of curtis client be lift off the floor and by misquamacas and and send down a flight of stair while spout native american gibberish have to be see to be believe . the effect sequence in cedar office where the floor twist be a show stop highlight because it be just so eye openingly farcical . but the end take the cake . strasberg fire bolt from over powered computer possess with spirit shoot at a midget indian with scary eye and a nasty cackle . the whole flick be play so straight and i just felt pity for all involve . how do a cast get up for a film like this . i think all who participate in this should have have electro shock therapy and because they be certifiably insane .