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MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE Reviews and free on YouTube

‘It’s shocking. It’s beyond your imagination’ Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American horror film written, directed, produced by and starring Harold P. Warren. It is sometimes deemed to be one of the worst films ever made. The movie is infamous for its technical deficiencies, especially its significant editing and continuity flaws; its soundtrack and visuals not being synchronised; tedious…

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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

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On May 6, 2011, Manos: The Hands of Fate was screened on Elvira’s Movie Macabre.

Here's some new Master art to mark the occasion!

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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

My rating: 6/10

Objectively, this is terrible, but it's certainly iconic, it ain't boring, and I actually kind of like the soundtrack.

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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) Dir. Harold P. Warren

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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) | dir. Harold P. Warren

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Harold P. Warren

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

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Here's a list of 20 movies often considered among the worst of all time, along with details about each:

1. **"Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959)**

- Director: Ed Wood

- Plot: Aliens resurrect dead humans as part of a plan to take over Earth.

- Notable for: Poor special effects, wooden acting, and a disjointed plot.

2. **"Battlefield Earth" (2000)**

- Director: Roger Christian

- Plot: In the year 3000, a small group of humans fight back against the alien race that has enslaved Earth.

- Notable for: Over-the-top performances, excessive use of Dutch angles, and confusing plot.

3. **"The Room" (2003)**

- Director: Tommy Wiseau

- Plot: A successful banker’s life falls apart as his friends and family betray him.

- Notable for: Bizarre dialogue, inconsistent plot, and unintentional humor.

4. **"Gigli" (2003)**

- Director: Martin Brest

- Plot: A lowly mobster is given a high-profile kidnapping job, but complications arise.

- Notable for: Incoherent plot, lack of chemistry between stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

5. **"Howard the Duck" (1986)**

- Director: Willard Huyck

- Plot: A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth, where he must stop an alien invader.

- Notable for: Creepy animatronics, poor humor, and awkward storyline.

6. **"Catwoman" (2004)**

- Director: Pitof

- Plot: Patience Phillips, a shy artist, gains superhuman abilities and becomes Catwoman to stop a cosmetics company’s evil plans.

- Notable for: Poor CGI, a weak script, and Halle Berry's Razzie-winning performance.

7. **"Troll 2" (1990)**

- Director: Claudio Fragasso

- Plot: A family vacations in a small town, only to discover it’s inhabited by vegetarian goblins who turn people into plants to eat them.

- Notable for: Laughable special effects, terrible acting, and nonsensical plot.

8. **"From Justin to Kelly" (2003)**

- Director: Robert Iscove

- Plot: A musical romance between two American Idol contestants during spring break in Miami.

- Notable for: Weak storyline, poor music, and lack of chemistry.

9. **"The Love Guru" (2008)**

- Director: Marco Schnabel

- Plot: An American raised by gurus in India returns to the U.S. to break into the self-help industry.

- Notable for: Offensive humor, over-the-top performances, and poor reception.

10. **"Movie 43" (2013)**

- Director: Various

- Plot: A series of interconnected short films featuring various characters and outrageous scenarios.

- Notable for: Crude humor, incoherent segments, and an all-star cast in embarrassing roles.

11. **"Manos: The Hands of Fate" (1966)**

- Director: Harold P. Warren

- Plot: A family on vacation stumbles upon a lodge run by a cult leader.

- Notable for: Poor production quality, dreadful acting, and a nonsensical plot.

12. **"Jack and Jill" (2011)**

- Director: Dennis Dugan

- Plot: A successful advertising executive deals with his annoying twin sister during the holidays.

- Notable for: Adam Sandler playing both lead roles, forced humor, and negative reviews.

13. **"Birdemic: Shock and Terror" (2010)**

- Director: James Nguyen

- Plot: A romantic thriller where birds attack a small town.

- Notable for: Horrible CGI, amateur acting, and laughably bad dialogue.

14. **"Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2" (2004)**

- Director: Bob Clark

- Plot: Babies with superhuman abilities team up to stop a media mogul from taking over the world.

- Notable for: Incoherent plot, bad acting, and universally panned by critics.

15. **"The Hottie & the Nottie" (2008)**

- Director: Tom Putnam

- Plot: A man tries to win the heart of his childhood crush but must first befriend her unattractive best friend.

- Notable for: Offensive premise, poor performances, and negative reception.

16. **"Jaws: The Revenge" (1987)**

- Director: Joseph Sargent

- Plot: The widow of Chief Brody believes her family is being hunted by another shark.

- Notable for: Implausible plot, poor special effects, and considered the worst in the Jaws franchise.

17. **"The Last Airbender" (2010)**

- Director: M. Night Shyamalan

- Plot: A young boy must master the elements to stop an evil nation from conquering the world.

- Notable for: Whitewashing, poor acting, and a failure to capture the spirit of the source material.

18. **"Batman & Robin" (1997)**

- Director: Joel Schumacher

- Plot: Batman and Robin try to stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

- Notable for: Campy dialogue, over-the-top performances, and criticized for ruining the Batman franchise.

19. **"Son of the Mask" (2005)**

- Director: Lawrence Guterman

- Plot: A cartoonist’s son inherits the powers of the Mask of Loki.

- Notable for: Lack of connection to the original, poor humor, and bad CGI.

20. **"Disaster Movie" (2008)**

- Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

- Plot: A series of pop culture parodies set during a disaster scenario.

- Notable for: Crude humor, lack of coherent plot, and widely regarded as one of the worst parody films.

These movies have gained notoriety for their poor execution, making them infamous in the world of cinema.

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Oswald's Alibi Checked Out

The moderately curious, if they want to learn a little something re the JFK assassination, will take a look at the Warren Report.

There, they will find, in the text, that Oswald claimed to have had lunch with fellow depository worker James Jarman Jr., that "Junior" said that he did not have lunch with Oswald (p. 182).

Those a little more curious will dig a little deeper, into the WR footnotes, & see that Oswald claimed to have had lunch with *two* fellow employees, "Junior" and "Shorty" (pp. 605, 626/Fritz, Kelley [Secret Service], resp.).

The truly industrious will keep on digging & find that a third, unfootnoted report on the interview in question (included in the appendices of the WR) actually stated that Oswald claimed only to have *seen* these two particular other employees (p622/Bookhout [FBI]).

And, finally, at the very center of the earth, the most dedicated diggers will come to this resonant note from DPD Captain Will Fritz's notes re the 10:30am 11/23/63 interview of Oswald: says two negros came in.

As it happens, Fritz's five little words here (or Oswald's four) could in fact describe a scene played out downstairs in the depository sometime after 12:15pm the day before.

With those five words--which did not make it to Fritz's final report--Fritz helps clear Oswald of the shooting of the President, helps reconcile Oswald's version of events with that of co-workers Jarman and Harold "Shorty" Norman, & helps give us a clearer picture of Oswald's movements between 11:45am & 12:30pm.

Dynamite five words....

Just before noon, several depository employees--including Bonnie Ray Williams (V3, p. 168), Danny Arce (v6p364), Charles Givens (WR p143)--saw, or heard, Oswald on the fifth and/or sixth floors.

Meanwhile--between 11:45 & about 12:10--Norman was on the first floor, in the washroom & lunch room, or "domino room," where he ate lunch (V3, pp. 188-89), Jarman was on his own, too, mainly on the first floor, eating lunch while "walking around" (V3, p. 201).

Between about 11:55 (when Givens says that he last saw Oswald upstairs) at 12:10, then, we cannot be sure exactly where Oswald was, & Jarman and Norman had not yet joined forces.

But the scene which Fritz's words seem to describe took place a bit *later*, and uncannily featured the same two players specified by Oswald....

By about 12:20pm, we know that Oswald was in or around the first-floor domino room because (a) at 12:20, Jarman (p. 202) and Norman (p. 190), out front, heard that the motorcade was on Main [12:21, as per "Death of a President" p137], & re-entered the.depository through the "back of the building" (Jarman p. 202) --this was not a planned route which Oswald could have foreseen

(Counsel: "You didn't go through & cross the first floor?"

Jarman: "No, sir, there was too many people standing on the stairway there" (p. 202); (b) anyone coming in the back, or north, door, walking to the freight elevators would have been seen from the door of the domino room (WR diagram p. 148); (c) "Oswald stated that...he had eaten lunch in the lunch room at the TSBD, alone, but recalled possibly two Negro employees walking through the room during this period. (WR p622/Bookhout), and, best for last, (d) Oswald [as per Fritz] "say two negroes came in. One Jr. + short negro."

In other words--contrary to the Fritz & Kelley reports--Oswald was *not*.claiming to have gone downstairs, around noon, to join Jarman & Norman at a.table.

Between his earlier notes & his report, Fritz changed his phraseology, & the seemingly slight, but really pretty radical revision permitted Jarman to handily nullify Oswald's (Fritz-revised) alibi: "[Oswald] said he ate lunch.with some of the colored boys" (WR p605). Bookhout, unambiguously, said *alone*, however, & Fritz's original "came in" echoes Bookhout's "walking through," & suggests that what Fritz actually heard Oswald say was closer, ironically, to the Bookhout report than to his own! Both phrases suggest,.further, that Oswald was already on the first floor of the depository--in or near the domino room--when Jarman & Norman entered.

Pretty clearly, then--in between the time that Fritz did his notes & the time that he put them into report form--he discovered that Jarman & Norman indeed "came in" the back way--too near the domino room for (Fritz's) comfort--and the phrases "came in," "walked through" & "alone"--or anything which might seem to synchronize Oswald with Jarman and Norman around 12:25--had to go, to be replaced (in both Fritz's report & Tweedledum Kelley's undated report) by the easily contradicted "ate lunch with". If you read only the final reports of Fritz, Kelley, and Bookhout, it sounds as if it were odd-man-out Bookhout who had the bum ear here; but Fritz's original, discarded "came in" reconciles Fritz with Bookhout, leaves *Kelley* out in the cold, with Fritz's now-suspect "ate lunch with" Kelley's own "ate his lunch with". Because "two negr came in" implies.in fact that Oswald **was alone**, "alone" brings us back to Bookhout -- 12:25....

Speculate as you wish as to why his lunch was delayed about 20 minutes--there are both innocent & not-so-innocent possible explanations--but Oswald was on the floor to see, however briefly, Jarman & Norman, about 12:25--whether or not.*they* saw *him* at this point (they were not asked)--& he would have had to dodge the latter two (going up) and Williams (coming down) to get to the "sniper's nest" by 12:30.

He saw, and said he saw, Jarman & Norman (not, say, Williams and Givens) come in....

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https://law.justia.com/cases/connecticut/supreme-court/1965/152-conn-598-2.html

State v. McNally

Annotate this Case

152 Conn. 598 (1965)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. EDWARD MCNALLY (5693) STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. EDWARD MCNALLY (5694) STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICHARD MCALISTER (5695) STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. RICHARD MCALISTER (5696)

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Argued April 13, 1965.

Decided May 25, 1965.

KING, C. J., MURPHY, ALCORN, COMLEY and SHANNON, JS.

*599 Harry H. Hefferan, Jr., for the appellant (defendant McNally) and Warren A. Luedecker, for the appellant (defendant McAlister), with them, on the brief, was Harold H. Dean.

Otto J. Saur, state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were John F. McGowan and Joseph T. Gormley, Jr., assistant state's attorneys, for the appellee (state) in each case.

MURPHY, J.

Each of the defendants was charged in separate indictments with the crimes of murder in the first degree in the fatal shooting and stabbing of Richard McAlister's father on August 28, 1963, and for the fatal shooting of John Shinners on February 23, 1964, while the defendants were perpetrating a robbery. Since each defendant was seventeen years old at the time of arraignment, guardians ad litem were appointed for each of them, and, with the acquiescence of the state, a plea of *600 guilty to murder in the second degree to each of the crimes was accepted by the court. Each was then sentenced to life imprisonment in the state prison for each of the murders, the sentences to run consecutively. The defendants have appealed. Although they have stated their claims of error in several ways, the basic contention is that the court did not have the legal right to impose consecutive life sentences.

General Statutes § 53-11 provides that "[a]ny person who commits murder in the second degree... shall be imprisoned in the State Prison during his life." The use of this language presupposes a life sentence for each second-degree murder. In these cases, that penalty was imposed. The statutes are devoid of any language prohibiting the imposition of consecutive life sentences or of language requiring two life sentences to be served concurrently. "In the absence of statute, the determination whether two sentences to the same penal institution shall run concurrently or consecutively is an incident to the judicial function of imposing sentences upon a convict and is a matter for the determination of the court." Redway v. Walker, 132 Conn. 300, 306, 43 A.2d 748. The same principle applies to life sentences in murder cases. State v. Maxey, 42 N.J. 62, 69, 198 A.2d 768. In that case, the defendant was convicted by the jury of two separate and distinct murders in the first degree. The jury recommended life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. The court sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment on each count, the sentence on the second count to be served consecutively to that imposed under the first count. The defendant, upon appeal, advanced claims of illegality which bear striking similarity to those of the *601 defendants in our cases. The New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the action of the sentencing judge and held (p. 69): "In the absence of a statute expressly prohibiting the sentencing judge from exercising such discretion, we find that the power to impose consecutive life sentences resides in the trial judge." Life sentences consecutive to other sentences have been upheld in In re Pedrini, 33 Cal. 2d 876, 882, 206 P.2d 699, and McCoy v. Severson, 118 Utah 502, 515, 222 P.2d 1058. The court had the authority to impose the sentences which it did in these cases, and there was no abuse of discretion in so doing.

At the time of sentencing the defendants, the court made some observations about the nature of the crimes, the personalities of the defendants and the doubt entertained by the court that the defendants would respond to medical and psychiatric treatment to the extent that they might be proper subjects in twenty years for parole under the provisions of General Statutes § 54-125. This statute permits the board of parole to release on parole an inmate of the state prison serving a life sentence after twenty-five years' confinement or after twenty years with maximum good conduct credits in prison. In other words, the court intended to and did put into the record its belief that neither defendant would merit parole in twenty years and therefore deemed it advisable to impose the consecutive sentences. The court went on to state that it did not necessarily feel that the defendants should be confined for forty years. Although it was not mentioned specifically, the court probably had in mind the jurisdiction of the board of pardons under General Statutes § 18-26.

Whether a sentencing judge, in determining the *602 proper sentence to be imposed, should take into account the possibilities of release on parole is a subject upon which there are conflicting views. It was approved in New Jersey in State v. Maxey, supra, 69, in which it was stated that the court could "conceive of no reason why a man who has been found guilty of two murders should necessarily receive the benefit of the same parole eligibility as a man who has committed only one murder" and it affirmed the action of the trial court as reported in State v. Maxey, 77 N.J. Super. 397, 406, 186 A.2d 536. In Morris v. Commonwealth, 268 S.W.2d 427, 428 (Ky.), in which consecutive life sentences were approved, the opposite view, that the sentence should be commensurate with the crime without regard to the possibility of parole, was espoused. Where, as here, the trial court had the authority to impose consecutive sentences, it could, in determining a proper sentence, consider all the mitigating and aggravating circumstances involved in the crime. State v. Smith, 5 Day 175, 179; 24B C.J.S. 578, Criminal Law, § 1983(1) (b). In addition, the court could also take into account the operative effect of the parole laws so far as they might have a bearing on the determination of a proper sentence under all of the relevant facts and circumstances. See 41 C.J.S., Homicide, § 436.

We find it difficult to follow the reasoning of the defendants that the sentences imposed upon them are in violation of article first, § 10, of the Connecticut constitution, which, as one of the declaration of rights, provides that "[n]o man shall be arrested, detained or punished, except in cases clearly warranted by law." That section is wholly concerned with safeguarding the rights of persons charged with crime. Cinque v. Boyd, 99 Conn. 70, 94, 121 A. *603 678. It would be preposterous to hold that a person who commits a crime has a constitutional right to escape punishment for it. As already stated, in the absence of statutory restriction, the punishment inflicted is clearly warranted by General Statutes § 53-11, which directs life imprisonment for each second-degree murder committed.

The final argument advanced by the defendants is that the sentences constitute cruel and unusual punishment, which is prohibited under the eighth amendment to the federal constitution. When the objection is to the sentence and not to the statute under which the sentence was imposed, the sentence is not cruel or unusual if it is in conformity with the limit fixed by statute. When the statute does not violate the constitution, any punishment which conforms to it cannot be adjudged excessive since it is within the power of the legislature and not the judiciary to determine the extent of the punishment which may be imposed on those convicted of crime. The imposition of life sentences to run consecutively for two second-degree murders is neither excessive nor cruel and inhuman punishment. Chavigny v. State, 112 So. 2d 910, 915 (Fla. App.), cert. denied, 114 So. 2d 6 (Fla.), cert. denied, 362 U.S. 922, 80 S. Ct. 676, 4 L. Ed. 2d 742; see also Lindsey v. United States, 332 F.2d 688, 692 (9th Cir.); Anthony v. United States, 331 F.2d 687, 694 (9th Cir.); Boerngen v. United States, 326 F.2d 326, 329 (5th Cir.); Pependrea v. United States, 275 F.2d 325, 329 (9th Cir.). As the sentences imposed did not exceed the permissible statutory penalties, the punishment cannot be held to be cruel and unusual as a matter of law. State v. Levy, 103 Conn. 138, 148, 130 A. 96.

There is no error.

In this opinion the other judges concurred.

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Hilariously Bad Movies 8 - Manos: The Hands of Fate

Sorry for this post being a few days later than normal. I had a busy weekend. Even in the realm of bad movies, there are very few that can easily be compared to Manos: The Hands of Fate. Very few people involved with this movie are known for anything else. Writer/director/producer Harold P. Warren made a bet with Academy Award Winning writer, Stirling Dale Sillphant (he won it for “In the Heat…

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Si no fuera por mi hijo Ariel, no habría nunca tenido la oportunidad de oír tan buen buen disco. En esta oportunidad les comparto el álbum At Last de #EttaJames @ettajamesofficial que pudimos conseguir gracias a los amigos de @hot_records_peru Un fabulosa voz que se plasma en este primer disco de la artista estadounidense de blues y soul Etta James. Publicado en Argo Records en noviembre de 1960, el álbum fue producido por Phil y Leonard Chess. At Last! alcanzó el puesto 12 en la lista Billboard llamada Top Catalog Albums. Posiblemente no sea muy conocida en esta nueva generación, pero es importante saber que la canción principal de At Last! ha sido versionada por artistas como Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Leela James, Cyndi Lauper, Randy Crawford, Celine Dion, Connie Wilson o Christina Aguilera .  ¿Qué trae? Estas son las canciones Cara A 1. "Anything to Say You're Mine" (Sonny Thompson) – 2:37 2. "My Dearest Darling" (Edwin "Eddie Bo" Bocage, Paul Gayten) – 3:05 3. "Trust in Me" (Milton Ager, Jean Schwartz, Ned Wever) – 3:01 4. "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Louis Prima, Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes) – 3:18 5. "Tough Mary" (Etta James, Joe Josea) – 2:27 Cara B 1. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 3:08 2. "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:02 3. "All I Could Do Was Cry" (Billy Davis, Gwen Fuqua, Berry Gordy) – 2:58 4. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:10 5. "Girl of My Dreams" (Charles "Sunny" Clapp) – 2:25 Por cierto, este LP trae un #DigiPack con un CD que trae muchísimas mas canciones. #vinyl #vinylcollection #discosdevinilo #vinyladdict #vinylcollector #longplay #vinylcommunity #vinyligclub #vinylrecords #vinyloftheday #vinylgram #vinylcollectionpost #vinylcollector #vinyls #vinyllove #vinylclub #vinylrecord #musicaenvinilo #vinyllover #tornamesa #VinylLife #tocadiscos #vinylcollective #discodeldia #melomano #musiclover #musica #discosdevinilo #vinilos  https://www.instagram.com/p/CpHKFpUtQ7C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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On November 15, 1966, Manos: The Hands of Fate premiered in El Paso, Texas.

Here's a new portrait of The Master to mark the occasion!

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"Certain Flaws in This Film"

Last known photograph. Why don’t you leave us alone? Silence is golden. Thank you, El Paso and Harold P. Warren for Torgo’s haunting dirge. Ordered crazy bread. Baked right in a vacant lot. They always do that.

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Harold Warren Moon (born November 18, 1956) is a former gridiron football quarterback who played for 23 seasons. He spent the majority of his career with the Houston Oilers and the Edmonton Eskimos. In the NFL, he played for the Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, and Kansas City Chiefs. He began his professional career with the Eskimos in 1978 after going unselected in that year's NFL Draft. His success during his six CFL seasons, five of which ended in Grey Cup victories, led to him being signed by the Oilers in 1984. Over his 17 NFL seasons, he was named to nine Pro Bowls, received first-team All-Pro honors in 1990, and made seven playoff appearances. Following ten seasons with the Oilers, he had brief stints with the Vikings, Seahawks, and Chiefs before retiring in 2000. He held several all-time professional gridiron football passing records. Although relatively unsuccessful in the NFL postseason, his five consecutive Grey Cups from 1978 to 1982 remain a CFL record and he was twice named Grey Cup MVP. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006, becoming the first African-American quarterback and the first undrafted quarterback to receive the honor. He is the only player to be inducted into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He married Felicia Hendricks (1981-2001). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGdv43r9Nz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=