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Plot:
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 thos...( read more 
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MCT:October 6, 2008I heard somewhere that Michael Caine did this movie & Jaws The Revenge sorely for the money. You would have to do a killer hand flix (even if it was written and directed by Oliver Stone) for the cash. Stone has a cameo as a bum who gets strangled; someone should have actually strangled him to prevent him from making this movie to begin w/
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MCT:March 14, 2008THE HAND (1981)
directed by Oliver Stone
starring Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Bruce McGillA comic book artist, John Lansdale, with a failling marriage loses his right hand in a car accident and has to cope with the situation. His hand, not found on the site of the accident, starts a life of its own, moves to Chicago and starts a theatre company. Well, it doesnt, but maybe it would have made a funner film. The Hand is meant to be a psychological drama but it acts like a cheap scary movie when the lost hand commit everything Lansdale think of without ever wanting to make that reality. That means murder, even though it begins only with sabotaging another artist's work, and Im sure you see the picture, as it gets worse.The Hand is only Oliver Stone's second directorial effort and it walks in Stephen King's territory. I dont understand why Stone made this film, after winning a best original screenplay Oscar for Midnight Express, he should have had the possibility to make something better and closer to his actual political view, rather than making something predictable and boring.
Michael Caine, who accepted pretty much any roles in the 80's, is the lead here, but he doesnt do anything special. Sure, he sometimes look creepy when he needs to be but he can help the film when it becomes laughable.
Despite of its lack of quality, there are some cool shots of the hand crawling on its own and I cant help but think of the potential of this film, which could have been much better with more tension but especially if it could have decided to be more than just another dull scary movie from the early 80's. There is a moment, the accident scene, its unexpected, shocking and bloody fun and the ending is kind of cool but it doesnt save the film.
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MCT:January 13, 2008Great movie! This is among one of my favorite horror films of all times. A severed hand possessed by dark forces. Interesting, even for Michael Caine.
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MCT:August 27, 2007I still remember seeing this in a drive-thru when I was 8. Don't really remember the storyline, just an image of a hand walking across the road.
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MCT:July 24, 2007The scene where Oliver Stone cameos as a bum and gets killed is great. I mean, how often do you get to see somebody who directs an abominable film die in said film? Worth watching for that alone. Wait, actually it's not worth watching at all. Don't mind me.
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MCT:July 24, 2007
Oliver Stone's worst movie. He has a cameo as a bum in this one where the hand chokes him to death. Movie is a general snooze fest.
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MCT:June 3, 2007
I remember this movie when I was a child. I would have dreams about a hand trying to catch me. WILD!!! I must have been 7 or 8.
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