The Hands Of Fate (FULL MOVIE) with annotations
by Joel, Servo and Crow of MST3K fame.
at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbzkn4Wce-A
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The Worst Movie Ever Made
The long, strange journey of ''Manos: The Hands of Fate''
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Out in the desert, almost 20 miles from down town El Paso, stands a
relic of film history. Of really, really bad film history. To view the
area now is to see only broken beer bottles, a collapsed roof and floor,
delight. But here, 39 years ago, among the prickly pear cacti and
group of Texans banded together to make their own little horror picture.
Little did they know they would end up creating what is widely regarded
as, quite simply, the worst movie ever made. It is even ranked as such
on IMDb.com, the encyclopedic Internet Movie Database. But this is a
the story of Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Leave it to a fertilizer salesman to make the crappiest film in history.
Harold P. Warren (Hal to friends and family) may have sold manure for a
living, but he dreamt of leaving a different sort of imprint in the
soil. Warren was active in the local El Paso theater scene, wrote books
and plays, and was constantly seeking new adventures. (Once, after
watching his children Wendy and Joe play with LEGOs in the basement, the
aspiring inventor came up with the idea of creating giant cement LEGOs
to use for building real houses. He called them Superblocks. Okay, not
But it was during a meeting with Oscar-winning screenwriter Stirling
Silliphant at a Texas coffee shop that Manos was born. Warren had
previously met Silliphant while filming a walk-on as a bus driver in an
episode of the TV show Route 66. During the conversation, Warren boasted
even he could make one. Warren bet Silliphant that he could take a film
all the way from conception to completion. Tellingly, the first outline
for his master script was written right then and there on napkins. The
Margaret, and daughter Debbie) gets lost en route to a vacation and
stumbles upon a horrifying fate. Less standard, however, was a half-man,
half-goat character named Torgo, or the mysterious cult leader known
simply as the Master who walked around sporting a robe with giant red
itself, Manos: The Hands of Fate, which translates a tad redundantly to
Hands: The Hands of Fate.
After raising $19,000 from neighbours and friends, Warren went about
writing, directing, and producing, Hal would also play the husband. The
rest of the cast came mostly from either local theater (including Tom
Neyman as the Master and John Reynolds as satyr Torgo) or the Mannequin
Manor modelling school (from which Warren plucked women to play the
time catfighting in oversize girdles).
-from http://www.ew.com/article/2005/06/06/worst-movie-ever-made
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