Idle Hands

Idle Hands (1999)

  • 15% of critics liked it
    (53 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (54,156 ratings)

Teenage burnouts and post-modern slasher films are both raked over the satiric coals in the blood-soaked comedy Idle Hands. Anton (Devon Sawa) is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly (Jessica Alba), the beautiful girl who… More

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R, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Rodman Flender
Written By
Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer
Genres
Horror, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 30, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Aug 28, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

    Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.

  • Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times

    Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness!

  • Jonathan Foreman, New York Post

    A disastrous attempt to mix comedy and horror!

  • Robert Koehler, Variety

    Too calculated by half and underwritten by about as much, as witlessly unaware of its faltering sense of comedy as its stoner-dude heroes are of everyday reality.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Chris W


    This is a gruesome but fun horror comedy about a super lazy teenaged slaker who's right hand gets possessed by evil and goes on a killing spree. Plotwise, that's it. There's really nothing mroe to this movie. I mena, there's a bit of a love story going on, and… More

  • Jeff "


    Inept attempt at a comedy horror film, Idle Hands is one of those forgettable horror comedies that has a boring, unimpressive teen cast. Seth Green was the only one in this film that made it a little bit funny, and everyone else was pretty awful. Devon Sawa was never a good actor to… More

  • Lewis C


    If you're a Jessica Alba fan, Idle Hands is going to appeal to you much, much more than the average viewer. We're talking about a movie where a woman who's basically made a career from being incredibly hot, is at her absolute hottest. If you're anything like me,… More

  • Jason O


    I knew I wanted to see "Idle Hands" when I first saw the previews last year. I finally saw it on TV and it wasn't like I thought it would be. I thought it was just gonna be a comedy movie, but it combines horror and comedy. A pot smoker's hand gets possessed to… More

  • Nani V


    I just saw it again for the second time after 7 or 8 years? I appreciate it much more! It was better than the first time. Was it even popular back then?

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