This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

This truly is one of the worst movies that I have ever seen in my life. I don't think that I would be able to say that it is the worst since there were a lot of real duds that I have seen. But this is still probably like in the bottom like ten or five movies that I have seen. But that won't really make any sense if I don't explain why that is the problem. Well first off the whole thing with Torgo was just so over the top that I don't think that you could really be able to go on and call it a good performance. And the whole walking thing made the problem even worse than it already was. And many people would go on and try to call this the best part of this darn movie. Which is nothing more than a sign of how bad this movie is really. I can't be able to watch a single moment with the so called master and take him seriously. He is basically the play boy of horror. A old man who has a bunch of younger wives and it even gets to the point in which he marries a six year old girl at the end of the movie. Who in real life is actually his daughter which makes it even worse to watch.One thing I will say in the defense of this movie though was that the budget and making of this movie was so poor that they had no choice but to use a camera that only could lead to 34 seconds of footage being recorded in each session or else it wouldn't record anything over. Since the movie is like 74 minutes, that is like a good one hundred twenty sessions that they had to record. Overall, this movie has a terrible plot that makes no sense, a bunch of horrible acting, a ending that is beyond every definition of awful and just makes me a little bit sick to even go on and think about it at all. I know that I probably over blow it when I say that, but is the truth. Nothing about this film could be classified as good and the only thing I could say to defend it was based off of a technical issue more than anything else. I would say only watch this if you want to see one of the worst movies of all time.

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.

Update: 11-5-16 - !!!HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE!!! I'm off to Arby's....*********** *********** *********** *********** *********** *********** ***********Manos: The Hands of Fate, one cinema's best known and most beloved bad movies. It's by-product-on-celluloid created from the singular mind of a certain fertilizer salesman from El Paso, namely: Hal P. Warren. How old Hal thought he had the knowledge and ability to make a movie (that people would actually want to/pay to see) is anyone's guess, but he did try and I'm very,very glad he did; because Manos: The Hands of Fate is, indisputably, one of the pinnacle of achievements of crap-cinema.A man with a vision! Hal P. Warren, a man of many talents, not only sold fertilizer, but also wrote the script, served as director and "starred" in his own movie, in the role of "Michael" clad throughout the film in a hip white cardigan, combined with one of the wickedest widow peaks ever seen in a movie. Then there's his wife "Margaret".....does anyone hold the same opinion that she sets a new level for on-screen patheticness? Because she can't do ANYTHING without, crying and whining, falling down or repetitively yelling "Mike! Mike!, where in the world could he be, Mike!". I challenge anyone to find a character in a movie who's less capable then her. Then there's the couples, 5 year-old daughter "Debbie", who like all other characters, had her dialog dubbed in after filming, except for her they chose a middle-aged women to do her lines - with less than convincing results. It sounds like she's channeling the voice of her dead grandma some have said, it's certainly a somewhat creepy and unnatural sounding voice. And let us not to forget their little black dog "Peppy". Does anyone really not yet know the plot of this movie? The plot is so pointless - so it's pointless to talk about it. Things really get interesting when Torgo shows up, "I am Tor-go, I take care of the place, while the mas-ter is away!". He functions as the motels caretaker, a rather short, bearded, quirky fellow with big, puffy, highly abnormal knee's and is always carrying a staff, presumably to help him maintain his balance as he slowly and awkwardly shambles to and fro. Torgo is propelled forward by "The Haunting Torgo Theme" an exceptionally catchy and charming little ditty, consisting of a repeating 3-note keyboard pattern, a pulsing bass drum and crystallized with tinkling xylophone. Torgo has a highly memorable introductory scene, with some funny dialog, which is often repetitive and contradictory - his opening line is a one of the all-time greats. Without a doubt Torgo is one of the oddest and quirkiest characters ever depicted in any movie. The actor who played Torgo, was the doomed 25 year-old John Reynolds Jr., who was reportedly very depressed and on drugs when filming the movie, to further make life miserable for him, the rigging that he wore under his pant-legs was unknowingly worn wrong and caused him to have chronicle knee pain. He killed himself with a gunshot to the head on October 16th 1966, about three weeks before Manos' world premiere in El Paso Texas, which occurred on November 5th 1966, a highly laughable, budget-restricted event (just like the movie itself) from what I've read. Torgo has several great scenes, watch and be rewarded.Then there's The Master.....Torgo's boss, along with his six wives, who apparently hang out in the desert and sleep during the day. I've always loved The Master's awesome robe, it's jet-black with gigantic bright red hands, with splayed fingers, one hand on each side (purportedly, Hal P. Warren kept the robe after filming and for years afterward wore it on Halloween night when greeting the trick-or-treater's - THAT ROBE should definitely be in some sort of movie museum) and it simply looks spectacular when The Master raises his arms when he prays to Manos, which happens frequently. Played by actor Tom Neuman, who pretty much has the perfect look happening for this role, especially his great villainous mustache. His lunatic rantings and raving are even more ridiculous and repetitive then Torgo's. Then there's The Master's six wives, dressed in all white, partially see-through gown's of some sort, which you THINK would look sexy, but I assure they do NOT look sexy, these six harpies's proceed to bicker at each other and get into cat-fights in the night, some of that cattiness is eventually directed at Torgo. The plot of this movie was an afterthought, but they had to give the ladies something to do. They proceed to clumsily (that word is particularly apt for Torgo) harass Mike and his family in and around the motel at night, apparently there's an undead angle to their existence, because they're solely nocturnal.Primitively filmed, by an assortment of novices and semi-pros 50 years ago, on 16mm film, with a camera that was unable to record sound, the end result, not surprisingly is pretty wretched looking to say the least and the editing in this movie is among the very worst ever seen. Though it has, within the past several years been restored and thankfully, from a visual standpoint greatly improved. Reportedly Hal P. Warren had a real short-fuse, did a lot of yelling and was hated by his entire cast and crew. Also there's the fact that Hal was so ignorant about film-making, that his cinematographer said that he often feed him lines such as "We'll fix it in the lab." which was pure BS, just to speed up production, Hal must have been hell to work with. But I must say I wish the man had made more movies, he could have been the next Ed Wood, but sadly that never happened and Manos: The Hands of Fate remains the one and only Hal P. Warren production......................................................but the guy sure could sell some fertilizer, couldn't he??!!