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starring: Richard Altman, Michael Caine, Pat Corley, Jack Evans (II), Scott Evans
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302814569
Format: Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302814561
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 17803
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 24, 1981
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This one is way, way up there on the silly meter--and it has the distinction of being the second film directed by Oliver Stone. This bizarre and unintentionally funny horror film deals with a cartoonist (Michael Caine) who has drinking and marital problems; both are exacerbated when he loses his hand in a car crash. But that seems like child's play compared to his real troubles: the severed hand, which was never recovered, takes on a life of its own and starts killing everyone who makes Caine angry. The hand lacks the dexterity of the Addams family's Thing but, otherwise, it's just as funny. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Like the cut off tail of a lizard
The Hand DVD
It features a riveting performance by Michael Caine, a cartoonist, who, after losing his drawing hand in an auto accident caused by his wife who is "separating from him", spirals down into a psychological abyss from which he cannot escape. Oliver Stone's screenplay and direction is well-paced and crisp. The ending is unforeseen and shocking.
Highly recommended for fans of Michael Caine and psycho thrillers
Gunner February, 2008
Rating:  - Just Call Me Knuckles...
Comic-strip artist, John Landsdale (played by Michael Caine in Gene Wilder's young frankenstein hair) has it pretty rough. His marriage is slowly falling apart, his wife is fooling around w/ her goofy yoga instructor, and to top it off, John loses his right hand (yep, he's right handed) in a car accident. No one can find the hand at the site of the crash, which leads us to wonder where it crawled off to. Well, Landsdale starts losing his marbles and people start dying. As his wife drifts further ... Read More
Rating: - 3.15 STARS: Imaginative and often misunderstood psychological horror movie.
Well, I must say that it is about time somebody decided to put "The Hand" out on DVD!!!! I am so pleased as it is a pretty good (not great) horror movie that is a bit out of the ordinary and very clever in its design. Any horror movie fan should definitely check out "The Hand" as the viewer will be sure to love the brilliant acting of Michael Caine is his role as John Lansdale as well as Oliver Stone's mysterious and clever play with Lansdale's psychological state vs "the hand" itself.
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Rating: - At Last
At last THE HAND is coming out on DVD. I've been waiting for this release for years. The only thing that seems a downfall with the release is, it's going to be Mono. Amazon only indicated THE HAND as Dolby sound. When it was shown on TV it was 5.1 Stereo sound and I hope Amazon made a mis print. I'm please it's coming out in wide screen.
Remember, the director Oliver Stone appears in the film in a short scene. He plays a tramp.
Rating: - Liked the psychological demons of Michael Caine
As a psychological thriller this actually works. In large part because of Michael Caine. As a B movie about a killer hand or a schizo cartoonist it features Olive Stone's tortured man, driven to ruin by a woman, whose lack of self-knowledge and unchecked rage propel him to violence. I kind of agree with another reviewer's disappointment at the ending not wrapping it up, but The Hand is enough of a thing that I feel neiter way about the end.
Stone's vitriol for women, a characterization many ... Read More
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