Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Acting
Michael Caine fully commits to hand-acting madness.
Practical Effects
The hand puppetry is gloriously unconvincing.
Direction
Stone's early stylistic fingerprints everywhere.
Director
Oliver Stone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stone hated the final cut and disowned it for years, though he later admitted the hand concept was 'probably too silly for seriousness.'
This bombed against Halloween II and Friday the 13th Part 2, proving 1981 audiences preferred masked killers to articulate severed hands.
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