Back مانوس: أيادي القدر Arabic مانوس: ايادى القدر ARZ Manos: The Hands of Fate Welsh Manos: The Hands of Fate Danish Manos: The Hands of Fate German Manos: The Hands of Fate Spanish Manos: The Hands of Fate French Manos: The Hands of Fate ID Manos: The Hands of Fate Italian 魔の巣 Manos Japanese

Manos: The Hands of Fate

For the video game based on the film, see Manos: The Hands of Fate (video game).

Manos: The Hands of Fate
The film poster shows a gripping hand in the foreground, and a flame between a woman on the left and apparently the same woman on the left. The top of the poster has the word "shocking" in large letters.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHarold P. Warren
Written byHarold P. Warren
Produced byHarold P. Warren
Starring
  • Tom Neyman
  • John Reynolds
  • Diane Mahree
  • Harold P. Warren
CinematographyRobert Guidry
Edited byJames Sullivan
Music by
  • Russ Huddleston[1]
  • Robert Smith Jr.[2]
Production
companies
Sun City Films
Norm-Iris Productions
Distributed byEmerson Film Enterprises
Release date
  • November 15, 1966 (1966-11-15)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$19,000

Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American independent no-budget supernatural folk horror film written, directed, and produced by Harold P. Warren. It stars Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Mahree, and Warren. The film follows a family getting lost during their vacation road trip through the Texas desert and becoming stranded at the lodge of a polygynous pagan cult led by the Master who decides their fate.

Warren was an insurance and fertilizer salesman from El Paso, Texas, who made the film as a result of a bet with screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Most of the remaining cast and crew had little or no background in filmmaking. The theatrical debut was poorly received, playing only at the Capri Theater in El Paso and some drive-ins around West Texas and New Mexico.

Manos remained obscure until featured in a 1993 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a television series based around mocking B movies. This developed its cult reputation as one of the worst films ever made.[3] The film has been criticized for continuous deficiencies in editing, continuity, audiovisual synchronization, pacing, acting, and several inexplicable and disconnected scenes, such as a nameless couple repeatedly shown kissing in a distant car and the Master's wives breaking into catfights.[4] Its MST3K appearance resulted in several DVD releases of the original film and three of the MST3K episode.[5] The original 16 mm workprint was discovered in California in 2011, from which a new, remastered version of the film was released on Blu-ray by Synapse Films on October 13, 2015.[6][7][8]

The film was followed by a prequel, Manos: The Rise of Torgo (2018), and a sequel, Manos Returns (2018).

  1. ^ "Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)". www.soundtrack.net.
  2. ^ "Ship to Shore Media". Archived from the original on November 16, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
  3. ^ "Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Manos: Hands of Fate (1992)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on July 26, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
  4. ^ Ross, Dalton (June 6, 2005). "The Worst Movie Ever Made". Entertainment Weekly. p. 1. Retrieved November 4, 2006.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference EW5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Heller, Chris (December 12, 2011). "'Manos: The Hands Of Fate': Carefully Restoring The Opposite Of A Masterpiece". NPR.
  7. ^ "Read this: The battle over the infamous cult classic Manos: The Hands of Fate". The A.V. Club. September 25, 2015.
  8. ^ "Manos: The Hands of Fate [Special Edition] [Blu-ray] - Synapse Films". October 13, 2015.

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