Manos: The Hands of Fate
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Manos: The Hands of Fate
It's Shocking! It's Beyond Your Imagination!
A cult of weird, horrible people who gather beautiful women only to deface them with a burning hand!
A Classic from 1966
Here is the story of a fertilizer salesman from Texas who made a bet that he would make a successful horror movie for a small budget. For under $20,000 and a 16mm Bell & Howell camera (a spring wound camera that would only shoot for 32 seconds at a time), he made perhaps the worse movie of all time. It’s a movie so bad, it makes Ed Wood look like Steven Spielberg. There are a lot of films in the running for the title of "worse"; this one shoud be given serious consideration.
His name is Harold Warren and Manos was his only venture into movie making and acting, as he cast himself into the roll of the movies hero, Michael. Harold wrote and diected this masterpiece. In an early scene, you can see him look at the camera and mouth the word "cut"! Before his death in 1985, Harold attempted to create a sequel called “Wild Desert Bikers”. It was never made.
You may notice while watching this film, there is a couple that keeps making out in a car that seems to have no connection to the movie. This was because the female actor has broke her leg so all of her parts were rewritten.
Manos was shot totally without sound. All dialogue was added later with only three or four people. The beginning sequence of the film, a long driving scene with very little dialog was suppose to have had the credits. Unfortunately, Harold couldn’t figure out how to add them, or had no money to do so.
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