Manos, Hands of Fate – (DVD)

Manos: the Hands of Fate demonstrates an important lesson: if applied consistently, incompetence can be a style. This narrative feature film was shot with a hand-wound 16 mm camera that could only capture thirty seconds of footage at a time. The camera was probably intended to be used by families making silent vacation films, and the results look exactly like a home movie from 1966, complete with barely adequate, dull coloration and hazy definition.  Since the protagonists are lost vacationers, it’s an oddly appropriate, if accidental, visual scheme, almost as if the movie is found documentary footage of a missing family, a la Blair Witch.

— Read more from 366 weird movies

If you’ve watched MST3K, you’ve probably seen this movie already. It’s a glorious trainwreck, made on a bet, full of bizarre choices.

But, it’s also a strangely compelling and shockingly beautiful film, with a jazz soundtrack that would not feel out of place on a much higher quality movie.

Watch it, embrace it, hail Manos.