Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Take one look at this, preferably on MSTheater (trust me, you'll need the comic relief.) Usually when you hear the phrase 'worst movie ever made', you think of something like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or other, better-known cine-hairballs. This will probably move to your number One spot---you have to see it to believe it.

Michael, his wife Margaret, their daughter Debbie, and their dog Peppy are on a road trip vacation. They take a wrong turn onto a dirt road and get lost in a maze of dead end paths. They find an isolated home and its caretaker Torgo. They decide to stay. Torgo keeps mentioning The Master. Peppy disappears and Debbie finds The Master's dog. The Master and his bickering wives awaken.This is horrible filmmaking. Filmmaker Harold P. Warren is also the star playing Michael. He's not an actual filmmaker but rather a fertilizer salesman. Supposedly, he made this on a bet. Warren is impossibly incompetent in his filmmaking. The list is too long. The acting is bad but it's made infinitely worst with terrible voice dubbing. It's something one has to see to believe. All of it is horrible. The worst and possibly the best is John Reynolds who plays Torgo. Again seeing is believing although he is also rumored to be constantly on acid. The whole thing is a mess but some of it is so unbelievably bad that it's actually funny. The catfighting wives is so stupid that I cannot stop shaking my head in disbelief and I hope they kept that handy cape. After its disastrous release, it quickly fell into anonymity until Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a show on it. This is one for the record books.

This movie is just like one of those old movie parodies SNL would do with all the bad editing and worse acting.The editing is so bad it actually goes backwards in conversations.So a family gets lost and they just stumble upon some random place.The guy standing outside looks and acts like he has been hit by lightning and he says "I am Torgo, I take care of the place while Master is away".Which clearly means go away,fast.Then Torgo says Master wouldn't want the child to stay there, although no one has mentioned staying there.So the dad insists on staying there!It's not even a hotel or anything, just some random house.Then he makes the gimp carry their luggage!There's a scene where they talk about how safe their daughter is while she gets up and wanders away!This is one of the rare times that I would say a movie is so bad that you have to see it.

Some movies are so bad they're good. Manos is so bad it's just bad. It had no redeeming value.If I were locked in a room for all eternity with nothing to do but watch one single film I'd choose Manos. I'd choose Manos because inevitably the VCR will break down or the tape will be eaten. I'd never have to worry about those occurrences with this film, because I would never choose to watch it again.