Growing Up with Manos Quotes

“By the time I headed for my room upstairs at 2 a.m., I was exhausted and supremely happy. My thoughts with a sleepy smile on my face? “I can get used to this.” It was a salve to my soul to have such mean-spiritedness turned into an amazing night for Ben, myself and all the Manos fans who attended. Little”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“But even the most fun things can turn dark when shades of possession, self-entitlement and greed step in. Which is exactly what happened. Chapter”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“In August 2013, puppeteer Rachel Jackson in Seattle did a new version of her show Manos: The Hands of Felt, which had originally played to a sold-out crowd in 2011.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“I was amused at all the made-up stories turning up online in what I came to refer to as Manos Mythology, while setting about to clear a few up. It became a sort of hobby to chime in on chat rooms and any place I spotted Manos conversations. In”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“Just as the original movie poster suggested, the film truly was horrifying, but in a much different way than Hal Warren intended; and the horrified and humiliated participants were anxious to close this chapter of each of their lives forever. But forever was not to be.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“It was all a beautiful illusion until the movie began. Up to this point, we had only seen a few unedited scenes at Hal’s house on his home projector, so none of us really knew what to expect. Eight minutes from the start of the film, with nothing happening on the screen but driving and jazz music, it was clear to the audience and to us that our collective world had already begun to show cracks.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“John died much too young to possibly glimpse a hint of his future fame, but Torgo will endure for as long as Manos is remembered—maybe even longer. Chapter”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“Mom believed she could do just about anything she set her mind to and she was mostly right—a characteristic I’ve inherited, for better or worse.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“The MST3K guys who riffed this movie were closer to the mark than they ever imagined when they quipped, “Every frame of this movie looks like someone’s last known photograph.” The whole thing looks like a photo album to me. Chapter”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“Yes. Absolutely, I wanted that part. No other little girl was going to spend that time with my daddy while I stayed home! I was going to be an actress.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“Dad had built a huge stereo cabinet that housed a turntable. I told the neighborhood kids that it was my grandfather’s coffin. They would creep up to it until I would threaten to raise the lid, and they would run screaming. No wonder those kids thought we were crazy. My”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“Hal said something like, “Hell, anybody can make a movie. I’ll make a bet that even I can make a movie. I’ve already got the script and everything! It’s a horror movie called Lodge of Sins.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“the night of the premiere at the Capri Theater in downtown El Paso. Now here was my dad telling me he’d just seen it on the Comedy Central channel on a program called Mystery Science Theater 3000.”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate

“Not coincidentally, there is something reminiscent of a minister and his flock, or perhaps a choir leader and his singers, in the final effect. Even the yoke of the Master’s robe matches that of a man of the pulpit. After”
― Jackey Neyman Jones, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate