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Things I learned from Manos: Hands of Fate


When you're completely lost in the middle of nowhere, instead of stopping & asking someone for directions the smart thing to do is to keep driving even further into nowhere.

When your kid says that she's cold, instead of putting the top up on your convertible she'll get warmed up by moving to the front seat.

Instead of driving on to find a motel somewhere, the smart thing to do is stay at a house in the middle of nowhere with a creepy deformed guy.

Cars which were working fine all day won't start when you really need to leave a place.

In rural Texas, it gets dark in mid-afternoon.

Teenage couples like making out in their cars 24 hours a day.

Cops in rural Texas work 48 hour shifts, but their main problems are broken tail lights and teenagers making out on deserted roads.

Creepy cult leaders live in houses with only two rooms, so they and their many wives have to sleep outside.

The master likes to burn old tires in his crucible.

The wives of cult leaders always wear bras and panties under their sheer outfits.

"Manos: Hands of Fate" sounds like a little bit better title for a movie than "Hands: Manos del Destino."

When your master tells you that he's going to kill you, it's smart to follow him outside and hang around for a while instead of escaping.

Upbeat jazz music makes a great score for a horror movie.

The only thing worse than a long, boring, cross-country trip is watching video of someone else's long, boring, cross country trip.

It's not cruel at all to make a man who can barely walk carry your luggage from your car into a house.

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When you are lost, it is acceptable to invite yourself to stay at a strangers home.

When you pull up to a strangers home and the stranger tells you to go away, and your daughter wants to leave, and your wife wants to leave, you should say it will be alright and stay.

When you stay, uninvited and unwelcomed, at a strangers home it is ok to treat your host as a concierge.

When your host is creepy, tells you his master won't like you staying at his house, it is ok to leave him alone with your wife and daughter.

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And after all these creepy occurrences, it's normal to dismiss your wife's worries with a "It's just your imagination!".

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I learned that you will not bleed if your hand is burned off.

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It's possible to watch 6 hot young women wrestling and rolling around on top of each other for 10 minutes and be completely bored.


I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

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LMAO! Yes! This is absolutely true. I began to wonder if that scene was the entire purpose of the movie.

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Creepy little guys with crooked legs get their own theme music.

1966 Ford Galaxie convertibles are not reliable in a pinch.

Drinking in a parked car is OK but making out is not.

It is possible to not do something somewhere else.


"Don't tell me your little problems son, all I'm interested in is results."

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In west Texas, dogs go into rigor mortis within a few seconds of dying.

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