Hands of a Stranger1962
“They gave him the hands of a killer!”
Directed by Newt Arnold
The premise
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
Horror Vault's take
When a gifted concert pianist suffers a devastating injury that ends his career, a daring surgeon offers him a radical second chance through experimental transplant surgery. What should be a miracle of modern medicine quickly spirals into something far darker, as the pianist discovers his new hands seem to carry a will of their own. This early-sixties thriller mines genuine dread from the intersection of ambition, desperation, and the horror of an unrecognizable self.
Content: Violence, Surgical Themes
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