Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac) (1925)

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• Stella D

  
  a lot of fun. veidt's anguished performance here may only be matched by peter lorre's maniacal doctor in the 1935 remake 'mad love'.

• El Hombre I

  
  It's that often told story of a musician who loses his hands and gets a new set transplanted from a murderer. Does the man control the hands, or will the hands lead him on a rampage to express his own guilty desires? This low-budget Austrian production reunites actor Conrad… More
  It's that often told story of a musician who loses his hands and gets a new set transplanted from a murderer. Does the man control the hands, or will the hands lead him on a rampage to express his own guilty desires? This low-budget Austrian production reunites actor Conrad Veidt with director Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Caligari). Although the pacing is a bit off at times, this is a very entertaining late-nighter for those interested in German Expressionism. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view¤t=vlcsnap-6758077.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/vlcsnap-6758077.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view¤t=thehandsofcountorlac.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/thehandsofcountorlac.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

• Eric B

  
  A tasty curiosity for those interested in Chris Kattan's pre-SNL work. Seriously, I was a bit disappointed with this film. Good beginning, good ending, dull middle. The acting is of that outdated school of bulging eyeballs and staggering around at quarter speed to look… More
  A tasty curiosity for those interested in Chris Kattan's pre-SNL work. Seriously, I was a bit disappointed with this film. Good beginning, good ending, dull middle. The acting is of that outdated school of bulging eyeballs and staggering around at quarter speed to look "tormented," and the slow pace - - even crossing a room sometimes seems to take forever -- really takes a bite out of the story's appeal. And unlike with some similar films of the period, the sets are not eye-catching enough to compensate. I much preferred the Peter Lorre remake, "Mad Love."