FilmRPsychological Body Horror Supernatural

The Hand1981

Name: The Hand
Genre: Psychological, Body Horror, Supernatural
Released: 1981-04-24
Rating: 5.4

“It lives. It crawls. And suddenly, it kills.”

Directed by Oliver Stone

5.4

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.5Rotten Tomatoes 29%Metacritic 59TMDB 5.9

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Year

1981

Runtime

104 min

Box Office

Budget

$6,500,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$566,736

Domestic

$2,447,576

🏆 3 nominations

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

When a car accident costs celebrated comic book artist Jon Lansdale his drawing hand, the injury proves to be only the beginning of his troubles. The severed hand seemingly takes on a life of its own, stalking those who cross him — but the line between supernatural menace and psychological breakdown grows dangerously blurred. Oliver Stone directs Michael Caine in this unsettling study of a man unraveling alongside his own disembodied limb. It's a slow-burn thriller that keeps you questioning what's real right up to its final moments.

Content: Violence, Strangulation, Graphic Depictions Of A Severed Limb, Murder Sequences