Crawling Hand Movies --

[kriegerg69]

peter johnson wrote:

> The Beast With 5 Fingers isn't so much a Crawling Hand movie as
> it is a Possessed Hand movie, is it?

Then you've never seen it, because it IS about a crawling, disembodied hand (spoilers withheld, of course).

[peter johnson]

Okay, I think I must be mixing up Beast With 5 Fingers with Hands of Orlac/Mad Love, then --
I guess it was the screaming cockatoo that was mixed into the boat scene in Citizen Kane from Mad Love --
So many films!  So many hands!!
* * * *
And then there's the 5000 Fingers of Dr. T --
peter johnson/denny crane

[BoyScoutKevin]

And let us not forget "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" with its crawling hand.

If one could come up with a reasonable premise, it might be time to do another crawling hand movie. Special effects have advanced to the point that  you could really do a great crawling hand.

[Scott]

Two other films that come to mind are AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS (1973) and INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN (1957).

AND NOW THE SCREAMINGS STARTS is a very good horror film from England with possible the best crawling hand sequences in film, but I haven't see all of Micheal Caines THE HAND yet, so I'm not sure about it being the best.

[peter johnson]

Now, you see, this is why I love this board:
I have never even HEARD of Now the Screaming Starts before!!  
Know nothing about it, but now must seek it out & watch it . . . along with the 3 dozen or so so-far unwatched films this site has turned me on to --
Hey!  I do try to keep up:  I saw Army of The Dead for the first time in '04, based on the conversations on the board here --
peter johnson/denny crane

[Yaddo 42]

Is "Beast with FIve Fingers" the one that has the classic blooper that used to get shown on "Night Flight" and other places? It's where Peter Lorre is shown trying to nail the hand to a stair bannister. As he hammers away, very into the scene, growling and snarling, the hand (a rubber prop) bounces off the bannister and falls out of the shot. A winded Lorre stares at where the hand seems to have fallen and says "There, you bastard!" Just before the clip ends you sees Lorre begin to laugh and hear the crew crack up as well. I may have that blooper on tape somewhere IIRC.

[ulthar]

kriegerg69 wrote:

>
> Either way, technically.....the story has nothing to do with a
> disembodied hand.[/b]
>


Yes, that's why it was a response to the 'possessed body part' sub-thread.  :)

[Scott]

Peter Johnson you will certainly be satisfied with your viewing of AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS. Caught it on AMC last fall. Good film.

Another good English film that I liked with a forgotten title DEMONS OF THE MIND (1972). It dosn't have a crawling hand, but when I was thinking about AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS it came immediately to mind. Both films are very good in my opinion.



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[Flangepart]

Best thing about being a disembodies hand : Only need one glove in the winter. You can save cash by digging in the "Seperated pairs" bin at the laundrymat.

Worst thing : Lack of leverage.

I mean it....you can't do diddly with out leverage! Choke someone, maby, if the fingers are long enough. Shoot? Depends on the caliber. Try a 44. and your armless self is going by-by into the next room!
Now button pushing, okey, i'll give ya that. Computer work...now we're talkin!
But unless you can borrow Freddy Kruger's metal fingers, you are just a cat toy waiting to get cat scrach feaver!

[Flangepart]

And another thing....how come other body parts get dissed so?
If a hand can strangle, a foot can kick....although i hate to think of a disembidied Johnson going rogue!

[Scott]

Terror of the Terrible Crawling Toe....................Never before had the earth known such horror !

Yea, maybe they should start using other body parts as movie headliners.

[kriegerg69]

ulthar wrote:

> kriegerg69 wrote:

> > Either way, technically.....the story has nothing to do with
> a
> > disembodied hand.[/b]
>
> Yes, that's why it was a response to the 'possessed body part'
> sub-thread.  :)

TYPO (or not enough coffee!)....I meant to say the story has nothing to do with a POSSESSED hand. BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS deals with a disembodied hand.

[peter johnson]

My Christ in Heaven!!  It's the Elbow that Devoured Brooklyn!!
peter johnson/denny crane

[BoyScoutKevin]

A little O.T., but what Peter says holds for me, too. What I like about this site is that it has gotten me to see films I might never have seen.