dreadful . i remember see this film like it be yesterday and not 20 year ago . it be 1978 and john carpenter halloween have just come out and my friend and i be feel that horror film be enter a new and fresh beginning and a renaissance . we be await each new horror film with giddy anticipation . then the manitou come out . this have get to be tony curtis bad performance ever . i remember the whole audience laugh at certain scene . not that it be all tony fault and the writing induce most of the laughs all on it own . there be a scene late in the movie where curtis talk about the manitou or indian spirit in a typewriter ( . ) that send the theater into hysteric . if you want to know just how bad a horror film can be and rent the manitou and you will find out .