Posted on 12/12/2011 8:08:48 PM PST by struggle
Manos: The Hands of Fate doesn't deserve to be called the worst movie ever made. It may not deserve to be called a movie at all.
Manos is a weird blip in film culture, the closest thing that the B-movie world's ever had to its own butterfly effect. It was made on a bet by an El Paso insurance salesman with no filmmaking experience named Harold P. Warren, screened in a few West Texas theaters in 1966, and promptly forgotten for the better part of three decades.
Then, in 1992, a couple of yahoos with a show on Comedy Central stumbled across it in a public domain catalog.
That show was called Mystery Science Theater 3000, which for ten seasons mocked exceptionally bad movies. And if MST3K spent its run scaling mountains of awfulness to hit peaks of hilarity, Manos was its Everest.
"There's a very distinct feeling in the episode of, 'What is this movie that we've discovered?'" said Ben Solovey, a 26-year-old Florida State film school grad who's behind Manos: The Restoration, a project to repair an original 16mm workprint of Manos. "Even though there's these long stretches where they're not making jokes, it doesn't matter. It feels like you're watching a film from another planet."
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Yep.
Oh that brings back memories! I saw that on Mystery Science Theater.....Just a terrible movie! LOL......
Yep.
THE EXPERIENCE: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7601757759632230570#
An awesome flick if there ever was one!
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Oh sweet Lord, that is a horrible movie, and I watched it without MST3K commentary.
I am not sure this film is watchable without a guy and two robots mocking it. It is just terrible.
At least it’s not Mitchell
I thought Plan 9 from Outer Space was the nadir of bad movies. Learned something new to avoid.
I have seen this “film” many times. ‘Tis truly awful.
I actually think “Castle of Fu Manchu” is worse than “Manos”
I just watched that documentary on Troll 2, which, at least has a plot.
I’ve only seen Manos on MST3K and it really is kind of strange, and at the same time, there were a lot of movies like it made around that time.
One of the strangest stars that confused Mr. Kimball from Green Acres and a family who becomes trapped in a town by some kind of force field.
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