Should you see it? If you're desperate.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Saturday, April 5, 2014
The Crawling Hand (1963)
How bad is it? Well, the hand doesn't switch from right to let-handed, but that's the most I can say for it.
Should you see it? If you're desperate.
There are more than a dozen disembodied hand films (not including The Addams Family's Thing), a few which are worth seeing. This one is the worst. There's an accident involving spacecraft and radiation and all that's left of a man is his hand, which takes on a life of its own, a poorly-explained homicidal life. A boy finds it, brings it home and doesn't tell anyone - this actually rings true to me, though it probably shouldn't. The film plods along with occasional violence but ends up with the hand getting eaten by cats in a junkyard. I think they didn't know how to end the film, had enough in the can and just ended it the first way they could think of.
Should you see it? If you're desperate.
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