If you want to see what the printed version looked like click below:
Also, to see the movie’s first teaser poster (a special bonus from out pal Rupert) click below:
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“Manos” Sequel PressThe Polk County Itemizer-Observer recently did a piece about the ongoing work on the “Manos” sequel.
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Hmmm. So they dug up the original actor to reprise the role, eh? Well, I wish them luck.
I saw the guy at Comic-Con roleplaying Torgo and explaining the film. “Didn’t Torgo die at the end of the first one?” “No,” he said in his halting Torgo impression, “the movie didn’t make that clear!” Which is true.
I’m impressed that he found the original actors, but man, I can’t shake that this is an expensive form of vanity cosplay. If Torgo gets less than 80% of the screentime I’ll be shocked.
I sense self-awareness with a tinge of irony. Manos 2 will suck, but not in the same way that the original sucks.
Torgo’s wearing the Witchblade glove on his severed hand! :rotfl:
“I sense self-awareness with a tinge of irony. Manos 2 will suck…”
Your second sentence follows from the first. This is going to be nothing but one long and uncomfortable nudge in the ribs from filmmakers desperate to inform us that they’re in on the joke too.
I’m hoping that they are trying to make a “serious” sequel, the poster art looks okay. But if they are intentionally going for a “bad-movie-comedy” in the same style as “Hobgoblins 2”, then I’ll pass.
Either way, I hope the movie provides the original cast with some extra $$$. They deserve it!!
“…Well, what ABOUT THE VALLEY LODGE?”
The burning question I think we all want answered is will the butt-cover-flaps for the Master’s wives be in the sequel?
I, for one, am amazed that this project has actually progressed as far as it has…and this quickly. I guess that really says something about Rupert’s dedication and determination. To be honest…I think, at this point, I’m more interested in seeing the behind-the-scenes documentary than the actual movie.
Like others, I’m concerned that this is going to be too self-aware/cutsey/irony. Unless the guy’s a fertilizer salesman, I dunno as it’ll have the..organic quality of the original.
Still, cool to see the original actors involved, and hopefully it turns out bad in the right way.
Wow! Tom Neyman hasn’t aged well. Looks like my high school social studies teacher.
Mr. Munch actually sent me a private Facebook message a couple of weeks ago when I asked a question on one of his status updates. He seems like a really personable, friendly, dedicated guy. He answered a bunch of questions I had about the copyright status of Manos and took down the name of my local indie theater in hopes they’ll show it when the film is finished. I don’t think this is going to be “Hobgoblins 2.” I think he really believes in this project, even if he does have a sense of humor about it, and honestly I have pretty high expectations for what he’s done with the material. Besides, it takes some real drive to contact the Master himself!
I’d actually like to see it. It can’t be worse than Hobgoblins 2 . . . can it?
@ “Wow! Tom Neyman hasn’t aged well.”
That’s not really a fair statement. He was born in 1935 and was therefore only a bit more than 30 years of age when the first picture was made. Now he’s about 76 years old, we should all be so lucky.
People today get a skewed view of old age because almost no one in Hollywood actually allows people to see what they really look like when they get old. Most of them have so many Botox injections and face lifts that most Americans can’t remember what old really looks like. It isn’t pretty. We’ll all get there if we don’t die young and we all have to learn to live with it like it or not. Maybe it’s the fear of being that way one day that drives younger people today to make so many jokes about it.
To paraphrase Dr. Forrester: This is nothing more than an unwanted, uncalled for, unnecessary sequel. There is no reason whatsoever for this movie. Who is going to see it (you’d have to have a gun to my head in order for me watch it) and who would even give the slighest part of a darn about it?
@14..Well said.I’d rather see someone who looks like their age on the screen as opposed to someone who’s trying to look and act young with their face pulled back and with Donald Duck lips…As far as the movie,I’m not excited about seeing the sequel and I doubt very seriously it’ll come to my theater,but if it goes straight to video,I will rent it.I do admire their love and dedication to this and I applaud them for that.And I guess in the end,isn’t that enough??
There seems to be some flexible reality or what some people like to call “retcon” changes with the sequel when comparing the story elements released so far to the original picture. In the original The Master is some kind of undead-like being who appears to need no sustenance and is only active at night. He is “not dead as you know it” and “he is with us always” as Torgo says. The same applies to his wives who are magically unconscious during the day and only active at night. In the sequel, Debbie is out and about and having a somewhat normal if troubled life, so how did she stop being one of “Dracula’s brides” and become a normal living human again?
Unfortunately, we have mostly just google-plexes around here so I doubt I’ll get to see this movie till it’s on DVD. I’m not sure if I’d buy it yet, as someone said it seems “uncalled for” to make a sequel to Manos. On the other hand, it could be fun and interesting. It almost cannot be worse than the original. If talk from those who do see it makes it sound either really surprisingly good or spectacularly bad, then I might be talked into getting it.
I always thought a sequel to MANOS would be a good idea (there’s a built in audience, you know) and something that would be doable. Not sure how this project is going to turn out. It looks crappy, and not in a good way. Of course, I will hold off on final judgement until I see it.
@ #11-“Wow! Tom Neyman hasn’t aged well. Looks like my high school social studies teacher.”
I was going to say the polar opposite! He looks like he’s held together pretty well considering he’s pushing 80? Also, is it just me or does “the Master” now resembles the other “Master” Lee Van Cleef??
From that picture I’d say Young Frankenstein’s Inspector Kemp
could take the rebuilt Torgo (and the Master will not be pleased).
Oh, and will the kissing couple’s children be
making out with the incompetent sheriffs kids
in Chevrolet Volts?
Curious as to what route they take, comedy or b-movie type.
If Rifftrax or Cinematic Titanic ever riffs this film, Rupert will have an erection for life.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, I’m interested in checking it out. I love passion projects from people who really care and manage to get results. Could it be terrible? Perhaps.
When is it supposed to be released? I’m showing the Manos episode of MST3K at the Colonial Theatre in November, if it’s supposed to be out by then, perhaps I can see about a double feature.
Is this Rupert guy the same one who kept annoying the Rifftrax guys at Comic-Con for 2 years?
(I think it’s on Youtube). Jeez, I thought that was so awkward and cringe worthy.
It’s been mentioned before, but I’d love a film version of that Manos stage play that was produced a few years ago – I never saw it, but heard great things about it. (Someone hopefully knows what I’m talking about.)
This just seems sad.
This looks like it has so much more promise than the original film. Just think of how much more capable low-budget films are these days. I’ve always thought that the original Manos is nearly unwatchable, but it does have its moments. I actually think the end, where Hal Warren’s character replaces Torgo as the lowly right-hand man was pretty damn creepy.
No matter how bad the original film is, I plan on watching this sequel. This director sounds like he has heart.
Rock!
when the film maker waits 45 years for s sequel I think they are missing the mark. it just too long. I have no plans to watch this sequel but I wish the actors and film makers well and hope it is a sucsess.
@ “Oh, and will the kissing couple’s children be making out with the incompetent sheriff’s kids in Chevrolet Volts?”
Hilarious. I wish I’d said that, Oscar.
I will be wearing a winter coat in Hell.
I’ll watch this. Because I’m not a wimp.
Yeah, I just threw down the gauntlet on some of you so-called bad movie lovers!
Here here Tork!
Stop the bitching and prepare to suck it up. Dr. F would be ashamed!
Here here Tork!
Stop the bitching and prepare to suck it up. Dr. F would be ashamed!
Clonus @27: The full-length video of the stage production is still posted on Youtube….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzk-wtTHLo&feature=related
Y’all gots to lighten UP! This is going to be so much fun. Get yer noses outta the air & sit back & laugh!
@ “I’d actually like to see it. It can’t be worse than Hobgoblins 2 . . . can it? ”
Or the original Hobgoblins for that matter. For me, Hobgoblins is far worse than the Manos: Hands Of Fate. The incompetence of Manos has made it legendary and bizarrely entertaining with many MSTies including me, while I find the deliberate attempts at humor within the Hobgoblins movie stultifying to the point where even with MST3K making fun it’s nearly impossible to watch. Interestingly, my son really likes the Hobgoblins episode, but I can only watch Hobgoblins once in a while. I don’t watch Manos as often as many other episodes, but I like to watch Hobgoblins far less often than Manos.
@29
You…you do realize that this isn’t the same guy who made the first one right?
That said, I wonder what ol’ Hal would say about this. Think he’d be pleased that someone honestly did love his movie this much to make a sequel 40 years after the fact?
It couldn’t be any worse than “Meet Dave”.
We’ve seen recent movies (Birdemic, The Room) that seriously challenge Manos for the challenge of worst film. (And there’s a persistent argument that Red Zone Cuba is worse.)
However all of these movies share something in common — they aren’t being made by the soulless Hollywood system, that gives is a dozen ignorable action movies every year. I’d rather watch Manos five times than 300 once. (And you know? I’m starting to think that Manos might actually work, in a Cthulhu Mythos kind of way. Maybe I should stat up the god for the Call of Cthulhu RPG.)
Starring Gene Snitsky. That’s all you need.
The perfect movie for an MST3K reunion: Manos II, Electric Boogaloo!
The original did end with a question mark, so that leaves the door open for a sequel in my book.
Neyman being much older will make the Master all the more creepy too.
Going by those photos, is Torgo going Hawaiian? ;)
Torgo is the latest spokesmodel for Tommy Bahamas!
@#32 You are right. Why should anyone in here shy away from watching a movie that has MST3K to thank for its existance? A sequel 45 years apart from the original wouldn’t have been made without the fame of being one of MST3K’s most popular episodes.
I hope the filmmakers throw in a Torgo’s Pizza reference in somewhere as a nod. I will be watching for it.
I hope Kate Bush shows up in her “Wuthering Heights” outfit and defeats Manos at the end.