{"id":16921,"date":"2015-10-08T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2015-10-08T20:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T00:52:56","slug":"manos-the-hands-of-fate-1966-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/manos-the-hands-of-fate-1966-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) [Blu-ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like most people, I was introduced to \u201cManos\u201d through the spectators of \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000\u201d in what is perhaps their funniest episode. Sadly, while the episode itself is a riot, \u201cManos\u201d doesn\u2019t hold up well to watching for the pure fun of it. That\u2019s because \u201cManos\u201d is primarily a really awful movie with nothing worth salvaging. There are absolutely no pros that can be taken from watching \u201cManos,\u201d and it\u2019s mainly appreciated for being so awful and nothing more. It\u2019s shocking how a film that\u2019s barely seventy minutes feels like an utter eternity to sit through. Many films are given \u201cWorst\u201d tags by everyone, but \u201cManos\u201d genuinely deserves its label as one of the worst movies ever made.<\/p>\n

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While the story behind its production is fascinating, and tragic, \u201cManos\u201d is a fiasco of a horror movie that just doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s nonsensical, pointless, plods along without a single narrative seam, and without the filler would likely be boiled down to thirty minutes in length. No one really intends to make a bad movie, but there are those occasions where a well meaning director stumbles in to the annals of bad movie infamy, and it\u2019s a sight to behold. \u201cManos\u201d centers on a normal suburban family who are driving, and driving, and driving through the southwest for a much needed vacation. After minutes of the brood driving, they get lost and end up at a desolate lodge that\u2019s run by the enigmatic and creepy Torgo. He\u2019s a hoof legged henchman for a black magic cult figure named the Master, who has devious plans for the normal family.<\/p>\n

He also has six wives, all of whom basically dance around and cat fight. Their plans are to possess mother Margaret and daughter Debbie, while murdering father Michael to satisfy the god Manos. Most of \u201cManos\u201d is the signal of bad directing and really horrible production problems that stifled what may have just been a mediocre drive-in horror movie. The rest is inexplicably awful filler that either serves no purpose, or was left in the film for the sake of presenting the illusion of a purpose. There\u2019s a long montage of driving in the beginning of the film, and the story consistently checks back with a couple on the side of the road necking for what seems like hours on end. \u201cManos\u201d is painful, but if you look hard enough there are shards and pieces of a film scattered throughout the run time that signaled the director almost had something coherent in mind. Even the modern audience that loves to hate watch will find \u201cManos\u201d absolutely excruciating to sit through.<\/p>\n

Featured on the Blu-Ray is a commentary with actors Tom Neyman and Jackey Raye Neyman-Jones. There\u2019s the \u201cGrindhouse Version\u201d of the film which is the unrestored state of the movie. \u201cHands: The Fate of \u2018Manos\u2019\u201d is a half hour look at the film\u2019s legacy with host Benjamin Solovey. Solovey discusses the mythology of \u201cManos, the terrible shoot, the collection of untested actors, and the film\u2019s horrible premiere in El Paso. Among the interviews are Tom Neyman, Jackey Raye Neyman-Jones, Diane Adelson, and photographer Anselm Spring, who discusses the film\u2019s shoot, and explains some of the most widely circulated rumors.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s shocking dismissal of \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000\u201d as it\u2019s given merely a footnote, despite the show being a large reason for the film\u2019s resurrection and place in pop culture. \u201cRestoring the Hands of Fate\u201d is a six minute look at Solovey\u2019s restoration of \u201cManos,\u201d and the process behind it. \u201cFelt: The Puppet Hands of Fate\u201d is a four minute look at the \u201cManos: The Hands of Felt\u201d a puppet parody sow by Rachel Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most people, I was introduced to \u201cManos\u201d through the spectators of \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000\u201d in what is perhaps their funniest episode. Sadly, while the episode itself is a riot, \u201cManos\u201d doesn\u2019t hold up well to watching for the pure fun of it. That\u2019s because \u201cManos\u201d is primarily a really awful movie with nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[477,617,703,897,1008],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-m","tag-mystery","tag-satanic","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}