" Manos: the Hands of Fate demonstrates an important lesson: if applied consistently, incompetence can be a style.
This narrative feature film was shot with a hand-wound 16 mm camera that could only capture thirty seconds of footage at a time. The camera was probably intended to be used by families making silent vacation films, and the results look exactly like a home movie from 1966, complete with barely adequate, dull coloration and hazy definition. Since the protagonists are lost vacationers, it’s an oddly appropriate, if accidental, visual scheme, almost as if the movie is found documentary footage of a missing family, a la Blair Witch. "

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" There was no sound on camera. Everything was overdubbed after the fact. The actors that deliver the voice performances are far fewer than those who appear on screen. And, in spite of all that, there’s a weird kind of beauty to the film, and Torgo makes the whole thing worthwhile.

It is one of my favorite movies, but unquestionably one of the worst ever finished. The score is good enough that I own a copy on LP. (Seriously, check out this track, or really just go pay attention to the soundtrack and the movie.), the dialogue has a weird poetic meter. The pacing is wrong. The blocking is wrong. The directing is wrong. It’s a train-wreck that has to be seen to be appreciated. "

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