A scientist and a posessed hand?

[Jen]

O.K.  I watched a movie ten years ago and can't seem to find it.  I don't know the name but do know it had a scientist and a posessed hand.  It is from the 90's.  I remember it being funny, but that could have been cause it was bad.  I wish I had more info, any help PLEASE!!

[Andrew]

Perhaps not a possessed hand, but a possessed arm in "Severed Ties" (1992).

If not, some description of what happened in the film (characters, a scene, etc.) would be very helpful in garnering some good suggestions

[jen]

that may be the movie, and a fast response!  It sounds right, i really only remember that the scientist was kind of crazy, maybe some basementy science parts, and a woman helper?  hmm...

[GoHawks]

I hesitate to mention it, because it doesn't match your description very well except for the possessed hand:  Evil Dead 2 (1987).  The only reason I mention it at all is that whenever I hear "possessed hand", that's the movie I instantly think of.¹

Regardless, all three films in the series (1, 2, 3) are very cheesy and very enjoyable and I recommend all of them.

Hmmm, it seems someone is making Evil Dead IV (2011)!

¹ (As Winston Churchill's corpse shudders in disgust, I just can't bring myself to say "that's the movie of which I instantly think.")

[GuyMann]

Body Parts (1991), starring Jeff Fahey involved possessed limbs.

Fahey's character loses his arm in a car accident and receives a replacement from a dead serial killer. Naturally, the arm is possessed. Not a bad flick.

[Trevor]

Is this perhaps Oliver Stone's The Hand?

[Shadow]

And of course there is the (reportedly) horrendous Demonoid.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082257/

[Jordan]

Don't think it was "Demonoid" Shadow (how the hell are you anyway man?!) as that involves people snorting demonic cocaine from the disembodied hand of a demon or the devil or something. 

[AndrewB]

The Hand (1981) with Michael Caine.He was a writer,not a scientist.

[akiratubo]

O.K.  I watched a movie ten years ago and can't seem to find it.  I don't know the name but do know it had a scientist and a posessed hand.  It is from the 90's.  I remember it being funny, but that could have been cause it was bad.  I wish I had more info, any help PLEASE!!

Old post and a real longshot of a suggestion but you could be thinking of the part in the 1994 Frankenstein where Waldman is showing Victor and Henry his reanimated gorilla hand.  It "attacks" Henry, I believe.

[Dreggen]

There was a surgeon (Matt Frewer) with possessed hands in Quicksilver Highway.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119975/

[crackers]

The first thing that came to mind was Idle Hands, although I don't think there was a scientist in this movie, but it was funny.