“Manifest Evil” (** out of four) was a not-bad psychodrama about a Marine Corps drill instructor (Leon M. Brown) with a troubled past who falls victim to a malevolent curse put on him by two vindictive recruits and he then spirals into a descending abyss of hallucinations and psychosis and he has to find the root of his curse to restore his sanity and return to real life. Film does have a few jolts and a few unsettling images but is hindered by an overall sense of deja vu, since this territory has been covered many times before (yes in “The Shining” most prominently). Brown also wrote and co-produced.