Background: Manuel Esteba was a producer and director of explotation films whose main "merit" is to have directed what's considered as the worst movie ever made in Spain: the E.T. spoof "El E.T.E. y el OTO" (1983), filmed in two weeks with a ridiculous budget. Not strangely, this was his last film (by the way, he still claims that Spielberg gave him permission personally to make the movie).

1st Logo (1983)



Nickname: "The man who inspirated Rob Liefeld"

Logo: At the beginning of the movie, a very muscular man with red pants poses as Rank's Gongman and hits a gong that reads "Una Producción Manuel Esteba P.C.". The gong inmediately breaks up. At the end of the film, the man is seen trying to fix the gong, but he can't, and starts weeping in frustation.

FX: Nothing, it's a live action logo.


Cheesy Factor: Well, everything: The gong is crude and visibly made with polyurethane or plaster, and the letters are just stacked to it; the muscular guy tries his best to simulate he's weeping, but fails, and the background is plain black.

Sounds: In the first part, only the sound of the gong breaking, and in the second part a happy-go-lucky piano tune, which the outro of the ending music, accompained by the man's sobbing.

Availability: Extinct, seen only on the Spanish E.T. spoof, El E.T.E. y el OTO, a.k.a. The Worst Movie in Spain, which happily doesn't exist anymore.


Scare factor: None, unless you're frightened by the sound of your own laughter. This one is a serious candidate to the worst logo ever made.