Name: Manos: The Hands of Fate
Director: Harold P. Warren
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1966-11-15
Duration: 4200000 s
Cast: Harold P. Warren, Thomas Ivy, John Reynolds

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Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American independent horror film written, directed, and produced by Harold P. Warren, who also starred in the film. The film's plot revolves primarily around a vacationing family who lose their way on a road trip. After a long drive in the Texas desert, the family finds themselves trapped at a lodge maintained by a polygynous pagan cult led by a man known only as The Master, and they attempt to escape as the cult's members decide what to do with them.  Manos remained obscure until 1993, when the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), a show based on the premise of comedically mocking B movies, featured the film in an episode, helping it develop a cult reputation as one of the worst films ever made. The film was followed by a prequel in 2014, Manos: The Rise of Torgo, and a sequel in 2018, Manos Returns.

The bad film has no pleasure value, as it is irritating and never funny.

It's sloppy, inexcusably cheap, and very silly, but it retains a certain moxie that suggests Warren wasn't intentionally tanking the production, he just didn't know what he was doing.

Often cited as one of the worst films ever.

Yes, it's the one, the only, the must-be-seen-to-be-disbelieved Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Just as Citizen Kane is a textbook example of how to make a quality film, Manos: The Hands of Fate is exemplary in showing us, step-by-step, how to make a bad one.

Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.

Atrocious on every level...but there is something to say about the fact that it exists, and the drive he had to get it made.

It's not even a movie; it's barely a time killer. It's more of a soul killer.

A family is driving across the country when they stumble across a mysterious house inhabited by the satyr-man Torgo. When the family decides to stay over at the house, mother Margaret is now the object of desire for Torgo and the owner of the house, The Master: a mysterious figure who dresses in a black robe decorated with red hands.

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1966 · 70 min

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