Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Doctor Bernice Murphy and Joey Keogh, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, a Halloween treat: Hal Warren’s Manos: The Hands of Fate.
A young family gets lost while taking a roadtrip through Texas. They end up driving down a dead-end road when they discover a strange lodge, maintained by an even stranger figure. Ignoring this mysterious guardian’s advice, the family decides to spend the night at this remote house. They have no idea what awaits them.
At time of recording, it was ranked 3rd on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 7th October 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Chris Heller at NPR reports on efforts to restore Manos: The Hands of Fate for high definition, December 2011.
- Jonathan Bailey at Plagiarism Today reports on the battle over the copyright for Manos: The Hands of Fate, November 2015.
- Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant looks at how Night of the Living Dead accidentally entered public domain, November 2019.
- Robert Spoo at University College Dublin looks at the battle over James Joyce and copyrights, June 2011.
- Eileen Battersby at The Irish Times reports on debates over the accessibility of James Joyce, June 2004.
- Declan Kiberd writes at The Irish Times about the enduring cultural importance of James Joyce’s Ulysses, June 2015.
- Dalton Ross at Entertainment Weekly looks back on the history and development of Manos: The Hands of Fate, June 2005.
- Gael Fashingbauer Cooper at NBC News looks back on the production and legacy of Manos: The Hands of Fate, August 2012.
- Trevor Willsmer at The Independent writes an obituary for Stirling Silliphant, October 2011.
- Nathan Rabin at Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place discusses the production and legacy of Manos: The Hands of Fate, September 2020.
- Sarah Sanchez at The El Paso Times looks back on Manos: The Hands of Fate as a part of the cinematic history of El Paso, Texas, November 2016.
- Scott Tobias at The A.V. Club attempts to position Manos: The Hands of Fate in the bad film canon, July 2008.
- Jackey Neyman Jones talks to Cracked about working on Manos: The Hands of Fate, March 2016.
- Manos: The Hands of Felt, December 2015.
- Jackie Neyman Jones talks about the tragic passing of John Reynolds between completion and release of Manos: The Hands of Fate, October 2013.
- David L. Lebovitz at Looper reports on cases of animals getting paid more than their human co-stars, September 2021.
- Benjamin Vigeant at Vulture talks to the cast and crew of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 about how they picked which movies to cover, October 2012.
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- Tom Brueggemann at IndieWire argues for George Romero as “the true father of independent cinema”, July 2017.
- John Bloom at Texas Monthly looks back on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as a watershed moment for American independent cinema, November 2004.
- Meredith Mattlin at IndieWire reports on Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez talking about the Austin independent cinema scene, August 2015.
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- Joshua Winning at Den of Geek praises Carnival of Souls as a forgotten horror classic, December 2018.
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- John Epperson at The Museum of the Moving Image places Manos: The Hands of Fate in the context of the cult movement of the sixties, November 2017.
- Elizabeth Yuko looks at the history of cults in America for Rolling Stone, September 2017.
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- Mike Vanderbelt at The A.V. Club provides an obituary for Tom Neyman, November 2016.
- Jackie Neyman talks to Diana Mahree at Debbie’s Manos about her work on Manos: The Hands of Fate, March 2013.
- Elisabeth Leamy at The Washington Post reports on the challenges of finding non-flammable nightware, November 2017.
- Anita Chaudhuri at The Guardian looks back on the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, August 1999.
- Brad Gullickson at Film School Rejects looks back on Race With the Devil, August 2019.
- Joe Blevins at The A.V. Club examines the pitched legal battle over Manos: The Hands of Fate, September 2015.
- Devin McKinney at Critics at Large discusses the arguments over the legacy and ownership of Manos: The Hands of Fate, November 2015.
- David Gelmini at Dread Central reviews Manos: The Rise of Torgo, January 2018.
- Mike McInally at Corvallis Gazette-Times reports on the release of Manos Returns, October 2018.
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