It is of no small magnitude to have your work distinguished in a sea of hundreds of thousands of movies.
Hal Warren made what others can only dream of. He made a movie that will be mentioned and even quoted for years and years by cinema fans, a movie that has earned a place in history books. His achievement cannot be understated.
Let me offer my explanation on why so many people love Manos: By watching this film you become part of a psychological experiment in hypnosis.
The countless landscape scenes serve as the passage to the hypnotic state one needs to be to appreciate this movie. It is only after entering this trance you will feel strangely attracted by the incoherence of the plot, the vapidness of the acting, the emptiness of the dialog, the amateurishness of the visual effects and the shallowness of the characters.
And then, the large question mark after the end credits is the snap of the finger.
You wake up, and only then you realize that what you have experienced brilliantly merges into creating, quite simply, the worst movie ever made.
Hal Warren made what others can only dream of. He made a movie that will be mentioned and even quoted for years and years by cinema fans, a movie that has earned a place in history books. His achievement cannot be understated.
Let me offer my explanation on why so many people love Manos: By watching this film you become part of a psychological experiment in hypnosis.
The countless landscape scenes serve as the passage to the hypnotic state one needs to be to appreciate this movie. It is only after entering this trance you will feel strangely attracted by the incoherence of the plot, the vapidness of the acting, the emptiness of the dialog, the amateurishness of the visual effects and the shallowness of the characters.
And then, the large question mark after the end credits is the snap of the finger.
You wake up, and only then you realize that what you have experienced brilliantly merges into creating, quite simply, the worst movie ever made.