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* Bad as this film is, the atmosphere at Casa De Manos is surprisingly full of dread; every second you're there, you get the feeling something's very wrong about the place. It has a similar oppressive feeling of wrongness to that of the house from ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'', only with a less immediate and visceral danger.
* The Master's ominous portrait, pictured on the right.
* In a strange example of NarmCharm, the grainy film quality inadvertently lends a creepy verisimilitude to the events depicted, as if it's a Super 8 home movie that just so happens to be about a vacation gone terribly awry. They even make a quip about it in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate episode]].
-->'''Joel:''' Every frame of this movie looks like someone's [[FoundFootage last known photograph]].
* The ending is pretty damn creepy.
--> "I am Michael. [[HereWeGoAgain I take care of the place while the Master is away]]."
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