Manos: The Hands of Fate article in Playboy (SFW)
Sept 23, 2015 10:55:00 GMT -5
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Post by Troy's Dad on Sept 23, 2015 10:55:00 GMT -5
No, there is no fold out of Torgo's exposed thighs. But there IS an article on Manos in Playboy! The article covers the movie's inception, MST3K, Rifftrax, and the bizarre legal "complications" between the Warren family, a pretend Torgo, and Manos HD.
What I found especially bizarre was Rupert Munch, who comes off as the heir apparent to the Manos franchise. The guy strong armed Rifftrax to giving he and his sequel airtime, in exchange for showing Manos (which nobody actually owns, but Rifftrax seemed to want to play it safe). He also had all these strange plans for the film, as laid out in the comments section of a MST3KINFO article: www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=11393
Just read through the comments, the guy seemed to be all talk and no talent. Wanting to release a new version of the movie on blu-ray (competing with Manos the Restoration) and wanted to present multiple cuts of the film. Even weirder, he equated backing the Manos restoration project with being a business parter with clout, and what really rubbed me the wrong way was that be kept calling the Manos HD guy Ben a "kid" despite him being 30 and thought that Ben was being greedy because he wasn't giving money to every surviving member of the original film. Rupert claims he would do it, though his sequel has never seen release and his remasters seemed to be nothing more than ideas in his head (I doubt the guy had film restoration knowledge).
In any case, the Manos saga just got a whole lot more interesting!
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What I found especially bizarre was Rupert Munch, who comes off as the heir apparent to the Manos franchise. The guy strong armed Rifftrax to giving he and his sequel airtime, in exchange for showing Manos (which nobody actually owns, but Rifftrax seemed to want to play it safe). He also had all these strange plans for the film, as laid out in the comments section of a MST3KINFO article: www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=11393
Just read through the comments, the guy seemed to be all talk and no talent. Wanting to release a new version of the movie on blu-ray (competing with Manos the Restoration) and wanted to present multiple cuts of the film. Even weirder, he equated backing the Manos restoration project with being a business parter with clout, and what really rubbed me the wrong way was that be kept calling the Manos HD guy Ben a "kid" despite him being 30 and thought that Ben was being greedy because he wasn't giving money to every surviving member of the original film. Rupert claims he would do it, though his sequel has never seen release and his remasters seemed to be nothing more than ideas in his head (I doubt the guy had film restoration knowledge).
In any case, the Manos saga just got a whole lot more interesting!
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