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The Hand

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The Hand
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R,1hr 44min
Genre:
Horror
Release:
1981
Director:
Oliver Stone
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe  ...more
Synopsis: Oliver Stone's first directorial effort for a major studio (and his second horror film after the 1974 Seizure) came shortly after the phenomenal success of Midnight Express, which was based on Stone's Oscar-winning screenplay. The director turned to Mark Brandel's obscure thriller "The Lizard's Tail" as source material for what is essentially a silly psychosexual variant on low-budget horror films like The Crawling Hand. The title appendage belongs (for a while, anyway) to smug, conceited artist ... Full Synopsis
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Donald Guarisco, AMG Review
Despite a lot of talent behind and in front of the camera, this psychological horror film falls short in several ways. The first problem with The Hand is that it's rather ponderous: Oliver Stone's pacing is slack throughout and the script is more interested in the bitter, dreary melodrama between Michael Caine and Andrea Marcovicci than it is in building tension. The film does get a bit more interested ... Full Review
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Michael Caine
Ian Lansdale
Andrea Marcovicci
Anne Lansdale
Annie McEnroe
Stella Roche
Bruce McGill
Brian Ferguson
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Jonathan Lansdale (Michael Caine), 'The Hand' Just as his wife threatens to leave him, a cartoonist...
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