Bad Movie Club

I'm so excited. A friend of mine recently introduced me to a little film called "Manos" Hands of Fate (yes the superfluous quotation marks are part of the original title). The club has experimented musing films like "Death Wish 3" (which is the funniest movie ever by the way) and "Troll 2" - I am glad to have graduated to a movie that appears to be what is widely regarded as the worst movie ever made. So bad is this movie - it actually blurs the line between movies and home movies, and evokes philosophical questions like "well, what is a movie really" or "what is art"?

A few brief exercpts about the film I found by googling it online:

"The camera (they) used... was a 16mm Bell & Howell model that had to be wound by hand, meaning it could only record film for roughly thirty seconds at a time...In addition, it couldn't record sound; Therefore, all dialogue and sound effects were dubbed in later. "

"In spite of all of this, Hal somehow managed to get "Manos" booked in an actual El Paso theater, and it even got a fair amount of coverage in the local press leading up to its premiere. However, at the first showing, nonstop audience laughter prompted the cast and crew to sneak out halfway through. And after an almost non-existent theatrical run, this movie was promptly consigned to the compost heap of obscurity, where it languished for decades before finally being resurrected by MST3k."

"A deputy wearing a cowboy hat jumps out and walks up to the car...not one second of the deputy walking up to the convertible is left out. He tells Dad that he has a "tail light problem", and proceeds to lecture him for quite a while about it. He then starts writing Dad a ticket, but I have to wonder what name he's putting on there because he didn't ask to see a license. Suddenly, Dad engineers a crafty plan to escape citation:
Dad: Can't you give us a break, officer?Deputy: [thinks about it for two or three nanoseconds.] Well, alright."

"Just as we cut to them, however, something black and white flies through the frame. Closer examination reveals this to be the clapboard [!!], accidentally left in the final edit. Now, in most productions, a clapboard is used for the purpose of synchronizing the film with the audio recorded on location. So I don't even need to point out how stupid it is to use a clapboard in the first place when your camera doesn't record sound."