Tuesday, December 3, 2002 |
01:47 - Those Mysterious Hands
http://mst3k.booyaka.com/mimosa/the_hand_that_time_forgot.html
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MST3K fans far and wide, gather round and hear a tale-- a tale of a man... and a monsterrrrr! Namely, a black-with-red-hand-pattern-robed cult leader, and his ghoulish turkey-drumsticked Igor. I refer, of course, to that most infamous MST3K episode of them all, Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Specifically, this is a behind-the-scenes look at how the movie was made, including some rare glimpses into why it was so eye-poppingly bad, and just what the farging thing was supposed to be about. (Well, okay, it doesn't really reveal much about that. But it does explain Torgo's legs, the weird jump-cut-laden driving montages, and the inexplicable attire of the "wives".)
I discovered, by the way, that the new MST3K DVDs that Rhino is releasing (such as the Volume 1 boxed set, hint hint) actually contain not just the broadcast riffed-to-bits movies, but the original, un-MST'ed versions of the movies in question. Ain't DVDs great?
Though that's still small comfort to those people who want the entire library, and yet weren't fortunate enough to be able to record them all when they were on the air. Rhino can't release all the episodes, because each one contains a copyrighted work-- the lampooned movie in question. And a lot of the owners of those movies have not given Rhino permission to redistribute them on video, MST'ed or not. There are a lot more of those than there are of the episodes that they can release, more's the pity.
But the magic of TEH INTERWEB comes to the rescue! mst3kvideos.com is the home of a guy who's taken the exhortation KEEP CIRCULATING THE TAPES to heart; he refuses to redistribute copies of any episodes that Rhino is releasing commercially, but for the cost of media and shipping he is making tapes off of master VHS/DVD copies-- and he has the entire library available for perusal, trade, or purchase. Huzzah.
Ahh, Prince of Space. Ahh, Hercules Against the Moon Men. Ahh, Mister Be Natural. Come to meeee.
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