DEMONOID (1980)

[RCMerchant]

Alright-where to start?  Well- there's a prolouge! A bunch of Devil worshpippers back who know when chain a woman up, rip her blouse open so we can get a tittie shot, (enjoy it-it's the only one in the film), and cut off her hand....which crawls into a tiny coffin. Flash forward-
Samantha Egger  is in Mexico with her husband at his mine. Never says what kind of mine-just a mine. A mine containing mummies and Devil worshipping s**t. Her hubby becomes possessed by the hand, seals his workers in the mine with TNT, and heads to Vegas.
In Vegas he's on a winning streak- and is kidnapped. He kills his kidnappers, yet sets himself on fire with gasoline. They bury him.
Aw f**k. To make a stupid story short- his corpse blasts out of the ground like shot out of a cannon, and cuts it's own hand off with a cop car door (!).  And possesses the cop!  Who makes a doctor cut it off him  (at gunpoint!).  The hand kills the cop and possesss the doctor-and so on blah blablah. OH! The hand does leap out an apartment building window and hitch a ride on Stuart Whitman's car (he plays a priest), and even escapes by hitching a ride on the under carriage of a freight train!
Oh! You can tell when the hand possess anyone-because you get a flash of lightning, and a cardboard shadow cut-out of the devil flashing across the screen.
It's actually a fun movie. Makes very little real sense. But it's bloody, and it ain't slow. It moves right along!

http://youtu.be/3YvXEkzP10w

[zombie no.one]

from reading your description I was sure I knew which movie this was, but looking at the trailer I'm sure I've never seen it.

looks like fun anyway...very grindhouse-y production values

[RCMerchant]

Zombie #1- It's right up yer ally!   
I enjoyed it quite a bit. 

[Allhallowsday]

Haven't seen it, like zombie#1, the trailer informs me.  Another one I'd thought I'd seen (hell, I saw THE BROOD when it was almost new!)  SAMANTHA EGGAR again!     I like when movies are full of trash while zipping along! 

[zombie no.one]

 just found it on youtube and started watching but it's in Spanish...(- but if the movie doesn't make much sense anyway, maybe that's not  a problem!)

Haven't seen it, like zombie#1, the trailer informs me.  Another one I'd thought I'd seen (hell, I saw THE BROOD when it was almost new!)  SAMANTHA EGGAR again!    

THE BROOD is great, probably my favourite Cronenberg movie

[FatFreddysCat]

I saw this on USA Network dog years ago. It recently popped up on Amazon so I added it to my never-ending watch list, haven't had time to revisit it yet.

[The Burgomaster]

I bought the blu-ray last year. It has two versions of the movie. One is called MACABRA and has less graphic death scenes (although,  think the running time is slightly longer).