History Trivia / ManosTheHandsOfFate

* LoopingLines: The movie was shot using a silent camera, so Warren and three other actors dubbed everyone's lines. If you listen closely during the wives' argument, it's not hard to hear it literally looping.

* ActingForTwo: Everyone is dubbed by five actors, including Warren himself. When the sheriff points out Mike's burned-out taillight and their voices begin to ''merge'', it becomes an odd UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} experiment in alternate reality.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** The Japanese title's a unique variant on this, ''Ma no Su''[[note]]The Nest of Demons[[/note]], which ''sounds'' similar to the original title while having a completely different meaning[[note]]A direct transliteration of ''Manos'' would be ''Manōsu''[[/note]].

* ReclusiveArtist: For a while, it was pretty difficult to find any sort of personal information on any of the cast or crew involved in this film. Most things that ''are'' known about the crew members, such as actor John Reynolds and director Hal Warren, are mostly rumors, provided through word of mouth. One of the 2015 Blu-Ray release's main selling points was an [[DVDCommentary audio commentary track]] featuring two of the film's stars - Tom Neyman and Jackey Neyman-Jones - finally breaking the silence and making their first public appearance in decades. A year later, Jackie released her book, ''Growing Up With Manos'', which cleared up a lot of misconceptions, confirmed a few rumours as indeed true, and generally provided a bit more information on the production and the people involved. Naturally, to promote the book, she - and to a lesser extent, her father, before his passing in late 2016 - took on a more public persona.

* The scene at the beginning where the family pulls into a scenic overlook and talks about putting the top down was filmed on Scenic Drive in El Paso. It looks the same to this day. The city in the background that Joel calls "Beautiful Ground Zero" is Ciudad Juarez.[[note]]Given the reputation that Ciudad Juarez has today, that riff becomes all that much more HilariousInHindsight.[[/note]]

* TalkingToHimself: Everyone is dubbed by five actors, including Warren himself. When the sheriff points out Mike's burned-out taillight and their voices begin to ''merge'', it becomes an odd UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} experiment in alternate reality.

* Jackey Neyman Jones claimed in an interview that she had looked for a copy of Manos in libraries and other places during her adolescence and early adulthood but had never been successful. [[note]]Too bad she never checked the Video Watchdog catalog, which sold copies of it for years before the ''[=MST3K=]'' airing.[[/note]] Then, one weekend in 1993, her father called her. He must have fallen asleep watching Creator/ComedyCentral while listening to some recognizable music during [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate a certain Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode]]. Jackey was overjoyed and contacted Comedy Central in New York to ask for a copy of the movie that they had just screened. When Jackey mentioned the movie, the person on the other line was completely shocked.

** The actors who play the Master and Debbie are father and daughter. The Master's evil dog was their dog, which is why (despite the dubbed-in barking) [[TerrifyingPetStoreRat he's very friendly]], and why those two in particular are able to handle it so well.
** Peppy the poodle was the Warren family's dog.
* ReclusiveArtist: It's pretty difficult to find any sort of personal information on any of the cast or crew involved in this film. Things that ''are'' known about the crew members, such as actor John Reynolds and director Hal Warren, are mostly rumors, provided through word of mouth. One of the 2015 Blu-Ray release's main selling points was an [[DVDCommentary audio commentary track]] featuring two of the film's stars - Tom Neyman and Jackey Neyman-Jones - finally breaking the silence and making their first public appearance in decades. A year later, Jackie released her book, ''Growing Up With Manos'', which cleared up a lot of misconceptions, confirmed a few rumours as indeed true, and generally provided a bit more information on the production and the people involved. Naturally, to promote the book, she - and to a lesser extent, her father, before his passing in late 2016 - took on a more public persona.

** The actors who play the Master and Debbie are father and daughter. The Master's evil dog was their dog, which is why (despite the dubbed-in barking) [[TerrifyingPetStoreRat it's very friendly]], and why those two in particular are able to handle it so well.

* PlayingGertrude: Diane Mahree (Margaret) was 19 years old when they filmed this movie, and is only 13 years older than her on-screen daughter Jackey Neyman (who was six years old when she played Debbie).

* NoBudget: The movie was shot for $19,000 in 1966 money, which was considered shoestring even for the time.