Manos: The Hands of Fate

There's a little bit of that in here.

Uh, and then a dash of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Yeah.

[chuckles] Yeah.

... uh, with Night of the Living Dead.

So, you know, Night is often credited with moving things away from the, the gothic and the ethereal in horror into the physical and the modern.

Uh, and then finally, um, I, I say Manos: The Hands of Fate, uh, because it has a bit of that, that grungy, last-known photograph, uh, cinema of no cinema quality.

Uh, I do not compare it to Manos in the sense that it's poorly or incompetently made, which it, it is not at all.

And a lot of our furniture too.

Um, but I got into it 'cause my dad came home one day and he said, "Honey, I'm doing a movie and they need a little girl.

Would you, would you like to be that little girl?" And, you know, I was very young and shy and, and I was kinda terrified at that thought.

But then the next thing he said was, "Well, it's okay, honey.

If you, if you don't, we'll just get another little girl." [laughs] Well, that's not gonna fly, so of course I, I had to do it.

So, you know, when you were filming Manos, obviously you were a child.

Yes.

Uh, he just turned 80 years old in November.

So yeah, that's number one.

Number two is Manos: The Hands of Fate.

I think I've seen that.

And number-

Congress.It's in the National Film Registry, which is the single funniest sentence in American cinema.

Manos, next, because it's the purest version of the pattern: sincere ambition, no resources, catastrophic result.

Manos: The Hands of Fate, 1966, about $19,000.

Made by Harold P. Warren, who was a fertilizer salesman, and by most accounts made on a bet.

A bet.

It's told you upfront it's not real.

And that's why the sincere failures are more interesting.

The Room, Birdemic, Manos, those are films where the question is live, where you can't tell whether the filmmaker knows.

Uh, especially the monster movies, but I mean, there are plenty of movies that I was kind of like, "Oh, okay, I wanna see this without the editing, without..." A- and some, some of it's ill-advised.

Like, I've seen Manos: The Hands of Fate without the riffing.

That was a choice that I regret.

[laughs] No, no, no.

Pretty...

Yeah, Manos: The Hands of Fate was also an early choice.

Yeah.

[laughs]

I just, I just checked it out here on ChatGPT.

Manos: The Hands of Fate, often cited as the worst movie ever made.

I've never even heard of it.

Troll 2.

Manos, which again...

Uh, let's see this.

Manos: The Hands of Fate.

No, I've never heard of it.

So there you go.

Then we had the Hands of Fate.

the team of Moros, Nemesis, and Eris, which I didn't know was spelled with an E.

Who knew that? Versus Thick and Thin Party, Unicorn Party, Thick Daddy Andy Brown, and it says here on Cage Match, Billy Goldust Avery? He

Yeah.

And this was a lot of fun.

I think Hands of Fate put up a pretty big fucking resume this weekend, too.

Yeah, I mean, Hands of