Hotel Torgo [2004] [Documentary]

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• DD

  @ddespair · 8 years ago

  I wish they had talked about the music and the composer. I think the music definitely helped keep this film alive.

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• PA

  @pacman5698 · 7 years ago

  "You know, every frame of this movie looks like someone's last known photograph..."

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• VI

  @VIDEOgameDROME · 11 years ago

  After hooking up my digital antenna here in Canada I only got about 6 channels. This documentary was on one of them. The master approves.

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• PI

  @piefactory6838 · 11 years ago

  Understandably, this doc is well out of date. As of 2015 Tom Neyman ("The Master") is alive and well, and his daughter Jackey Jones is very active on Facebook and very involved in the restoration of this movie. Much more is known about the movie nowadays.

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• ME

  @MerkinMuffly · 9 years ago

  JTorgo, you left us too soon my great thespian, the entire acting world mourned when he shot himself in the head with a shotgun on October 16, 1966, a month before the film was to premiere. His one and only film, and bygod it was gold.

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• CJ

  @cjsligojones5101 · 8 years ago

  I can't believe those pillars are still there...it's like a monument to the worst movie ever.

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• CH

  @ChristopherSobieniak · 11 years ago

  It's amusing to think 10 years after this documentary was made, we finally have a restored version of the film available in HD.  It's nice what people come across in their casual film collecting circles.

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• ME

  @metalmugen · 9 years ago

  So in case you forgot: Manos the Hands of Fate

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• DI

  @DistractedGlobeGuy · 3 years ago

  I've never heard a geriatric with emphysema say "we knew we was in deep doo-doo" before. This doc is a masterpiece.

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• MR

  @MrKmanthie · 9 years ago

  Of all the flicks MST3K has lampooned over the years, my 2 faves are:  Manos: The Hands of Fate and Monster a Go-Go.   Also:  the thing about Manos is that the soundtrack is so completely different from any sort of "horror"-type movie; it's filled with a jazz soundtrack that ranges from sweet as molasses crooning by a Shirley Bassey sound-a-like (unless it was her?) to something that actually reminded me of the middle "jam" part in "Call Any Vegetable" by Zappa & The Mothers from their 2nd album, Absolutely Free: the fast-paced tempo, the soprano sax/oboe(?), etc. playing (to match the scene) in this frenetic, frantic sound.

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• WY

  @wyattmann8157 · 4 years ago

  Remember…Hal Warren <i>won</i> his bet. 😎

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• MU

  @mumbdaddy · 10 years ago

  Nice to see the film brought some happiness to Bernie so many years later. RIP Bernie.

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