70's Film Where Natives Attack Woman in Hallway and Devil at Bedside Eats Fruit

by Sophia
(East Texas, USA)

I survived the 70's with most of my sanity intact despite my parents love of horror movies. They watched a lot of them around me when I was a kid which is probably why I'm such a fan of the stuff now.

Most of the films we watched, or rather they watched and I peeked at through my fingers, are known to me. I mean it's hard not to know what movie people are talking about when you say something like, 'You know...the one where the girl spews green projectile vomit on the priest?'

I even managed to figure out the title of a made-for-TV movie about a woman in an apartment building attacked by an old dude in a diaper on a staircase and a nun sitting by the window. (Psst...The Sentinel).

But alas, there's one mystery left. There's one movie I just can't put my finger on. And well, as the years press on, I'm beginning to consider I might be losing it.

All those horror movies have finally caught up with me. I'm considering the possibility I may have dreamed these images although I can't accept that just yet.

My movie mystery is this...

It's a 70's film or made-for-TV movie starring a woman who seemed to experience a mental breakdown throughout the film, seeing things no one else saw. In particular, (this is where I sound like a lunatic) a group/tribe of what appear to be native men made up in full make-up and spears sort of coming toward the poor heroine in a hallway. At first I thought this might be Manitou. But nope.

The other image I have (and this may be a completely different movie altogether for all I know) is where the same heroine or same type of heroine wakes or is in bed and she sees this man sitting in the corner of the room eating a piece of fruit and talking to her, taunting her. He was always eating a piece of fruit. No one else could see him. I think he was the devil.

(Sigh) Okay. Send out the men in the white coats. If you guys can crack this/these, I'm in love.