The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

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   jerry warton

   http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15lsot_beast-with-five-fingers-1946_shortfilms 9 years 9 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   The Beast with Five Fingers is famously the inspiration for Doctor Who's The Hand of Fear, dear to my heart because it was the first serial I ever saw. And I'm glad to see there more to it than being part of the disembodied hand genre (if slightly). The 1946 movie, about an evil pianist's hand coming back to life to do its dead owner's will in an Italian villa populated by many characters, is long on set-up, but the last half hour is really worth the ticket price, with Peter Lorre eating up the screen as a paranoid astrologer whose madness may be connected to these strange and creepy events. Despite a powerful third act, the coda very nearly kills the movie, entirely too silly coming on the heels of such effective classic horror fare. Still, I still don't know how some of these effects were achieved, and that's a triumph unto itself. 6 years 1 month ago
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   Camille Deadpan

   It's not a horror movie, it's simply a bad movie.

   But the way that they make that hand alive is superb.

   It should be recognized as a cult movie!
   The love story between the two protagonists is so sudden and somewhat forced, that it, of course, makes sense.
   Peter Lorre is brilliant and should be nominated for president. 11 years 1 month ago

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