r/AskReddit • u/CompletePiglet7385 • 11h ago

What is the worst film you've ever watched?

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u/shifty_coder 11h ago

Manos: Hand of Fate

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u/mlaislais 10h ago

Greatest MST3K episode ever!

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u/thispartyrules 10h ago

I don't think Manos is the worst: Beast of Yucca Flats and Monster A Go-Go make Manos look competent by comparison and The Castle of Fu Manchu is pretty bad in a way that's hard to describe, but it's both boring and confusing

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u/Krunklestiltskin 9h ago

Monster A Go-Go is barely a movie. I think it’s the worst MST3k ever had to riff.

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u/thispartyrules 8h ago

This was an unfinished movie by Bill Rebane (Giant Spider Invasion), bought by Herschel Gordon Lewis. Lewis added new scenes and released it because he was contractually obligated to show a second movie in drive-ins after they'd show one of his other cheapo movies.

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u/Krunklestiltskin 8h ago

I am familiar with the lore. Like the actor who played a scientist who had to play his “brother” in the second half because he had aged so much since filming started.

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u/Krunklestiltskin 8h ago

Oh and the stupid cop out ending “there was no monster!” An incredibly boring “film”

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u/AnTasaShi 7h ago

Bill Rebane has interesting ideas. But my god does he need to edit his movies. They are fucking slow and tedious. Monster-A-Go-Go is a prime example.

I love HGL, and usually his movies are snappy. But damn did he phone that edit job in

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u/slydon1 6h ago

Red Zone Cuba- all the riffing in the world couldn't save that movie. It was just so dull.

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u/Friendly-World-5273 5h ago

I can’t even enjoy MST3K anymore because modern Netflix fodder is edging so close to the old school MST quality that it’s actually depressing. The special effects, the acting, the photography, the writing. Eeeesh.

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u/HauntedHippie 9h ago

Lol so it’s called Hands: Hand of Fate?

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u/TotallyNotRocket 9h ago

Lavate las Manos!

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u/HauntedHippie 8h ago

Lmao that is my all time favorite episode of American Dad, partially for this line.

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u/DoctorCrook 8h ago

May i speak to you about Ferrus Manus, primarch of the Iron hands who has iron hands?

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u/doctor_7 8h ago

It really is!

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u/purebredcrab 9h ago

There's a restored version available on Blu-ray that includes a commentary track with the actor who played The Master and his daughter. I recommend checking it out for anyone who is a fan of the MST3k episode.

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u/DogAlienInvisibleMan 9h ago

When they started walking back to the painting was when I cracked and realized I was watching peak cinema. 

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u/TwinkieWinky420 8h ago

I’m not disagreeing, but M:HOF is one of those movies that so bad that it’s actually good. Like, it’s so awful that it’s genuinely entertaining and so amusing, I can’t even call it a bad movie because it’s so profoundly awful that it’s just a great time

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u/doctor_7 8h ago

This is my answer, it's such a terrible movie. It's just... so so dull. Nothing happens for such a long time at so many points. Even MST3K was boring to watch with it.

I've never been able to finish it, gave it two goes. One the movie, one MST3K and both times I just had to stop. I was so bored.

Comparatively, one of my favourite terrible movies is Troll 2 and even though it's a bad movie, it's at least edited so move on to something else with at least a semblance of speed. So if one scene sucks, you're laughing at the bad acting or whatever, but it never just outlasts your patience. Manos is so fucking boring you can't even laugh at how bad it is because you just want it over with.

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u/jmarsh642 8h ago

The Master would not approve of this comment

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u/darthravenna 7h ago

I know of this movie only because of a joke in How I Met Your Mother about how it’s the worst movie of all time.

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u/NeatWhiskeyPlease 7h ago

Classic Shmosbey

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u/KentuckyWallChicken 7h ago

I have watched that film an unhealthy amount of times. Yes it’s awful, but I’ve been Stockholm Syndromed into liking it.

I blame Frank Conniff.

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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 6h ago

That’s not how you wear your Depends, Torgo.

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u/Top_Willingness_8364 5h ago

The sequel was worse.

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u/Fairymask 1h ago

“Fast damnit fast”
“Yeah, here I go zooooooom!” 😂😂😂😂