Severin Resurrects Graham Masterton’s ‘The Manitou’ in 4K UHD
One of my ultimate guilty pleasure flicks from the wild, wild ‘70s has always been The Manitou. Based on the debut novel of the wonderful and seriously underrated, Graham Masterton, I reviewed this a few years ago to share the love (see review of The Manitou here).
Anyhow, The Manitou has been available on a handful of DVD releases, but this summer, Severin are bringing us a sparkling 4K UHD set.
The Manitou stars Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, and Jon Cedar.
Following his success with Grizzly and Day of the Animals, producer/director William Girdler bought the film rights to the best-selling novel by Graham Masterton for what would become the most ambitious film of Girdler’s career…and a commercial triumph he would never live to see: Academy Award® nominee Tony Curtis leads an all star cast – including Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Ann Sothern and Burgess Meredith – in this infamous ’70s saga of tarot card hustlers, enormous neck tumors, a 400-year-old reincarnated medicine man and naked demon space laser battles that has been called everything from “a thoroughly entertaining supernatural extravaganza” (The Spinning Image) and “a fascinating experience” (DVD Beaver) to “a deliriously ill-advised oddity” (Indiewire) and “as crazy as it sounds and then some” (AV Club). Misquamacus says “this truly underappreciated gem” (Rock! Shock! Pop!) is now scanned in 4K from the 35mm interpositive by StudioCanal for the first time ever with over 3 hours of all-new and archival Special Features.
DISC ONE – 4K UHD BLU-RAY
- New 4K restoration from an interpositive, completed on behalf of StudioCanal
- Original English mono and stereo tracks
- Audio Commentary With Indigenous Scholars Kali Simmons and Shaawano Chad Uran
- Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtiltes for the main feature
DISC TWO – BLU-RAY
- New 4K restoration from an interpositive, completed on behalf of StudioCanal
- Original English mono and stereo tracks
- Audio Commentary With Indigenous Scholars Kali Simmons And Shaawano Chad Uran
- My Life As A Manitou – Interview With Actor Joe Gieb
- Making Misquamacus – Interview With SFX Artist Tom Burman
- Your God Won’t Help You – Interview With Second AD Alain Silver
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Neck: Giving Birth To THE MANITOU – Video Essay By Jim Knipfel, Author Of Slackjaw
- Interview With The Manitou Novelist Graham Masterton
- Interview With Executive Producer David Sheldon
- Trailer
- TV Spot
The 4K is region free whilst the Blu-ray is Region A locked.
Now can someone please adapt Graham Masterton’s The Djinn, The Devils of D Day, or at least Charnel House. In fact, someone turn the rest of his The Manitou books into a Shudder thing or something.
