You know, this movie has a few flaws... Ok wait a minute, my mistake; this movie is a flaw. The entire thing is a 70 minute long mistake made to...uh.... make Hal Warren famous. Since he died in 1986, he was unable to see that it now lives in infamy as a classic MST3K episode (the only way to see it). But even there I will admit having a hard time watching all of it. It felt like hours passed while watching it (kinda like at work). Most people have talked about the Torgo theme song, which I didn't catch because I was either laughing to much or not caring enough to notice it. Of course I feel bad for the three people who committed suicide over this piece of you-know-what. I heard that Hal Warren was talking to a friend when he decided to make it and felt if Hollywood could do it, so could he. Let me the one to say here that just because you can make a movie, doesn't mean you should. It could have been an interesting film and better if they had the right equipment, actors, a good director, someone to polish the screenplay, they could have made an average film. But instead we're stuck with an un-watch able piece of junk.
I guess the lesson here is leaving the movie making to the professionals. I suppose the following paragraph could be considered spoiler material, but the movie will spoil the idea of watch it with out me doing it for you.
The story is about some jerk, his wife and his kid on vacation when they show up at the Master's with Torgo out front. The dad wants to stay there, the wife and kid protest. He gets his way, they stay and then he wants to go, but the car won't start. Eventually a bunch of stuff happens, Torgo dies and "Manos" goes after the family. In the end the family is taken captive, with the dad as the new Torgo (watching the house while the Master is away) and the wife and child as his new wives.
So we leave "Manos" The Hands of Fate, knowing that such movies as "The Mod Squad" and "Battlefield Earth" are just pretender bad movies. Manos is the worst film ever, nothing this bad had been made before nor do I see a movie this bad showing up any time soon.