Directed by Alfredo Zacarias
Written by David Lee Fein, F. Amos Powell and Alfredo Zacarias
Starring Samantha Eggar, Stuart Whitman, Roy Jenson, Lew Saunders, Narciso Busquets and Jose Chavez
Mexico, 1981
The third film of the all night horror marathon this year concerns an ancient disembodied hand that’s dug up in a Mexican mine and then goes on to possesses one person after another, killing them off as it goes.
The hand’s first victim is the owner of the mine (Roy Jenson) and the rest of the movie follows his wife (Jennifer Baines) who teams up with a reluctant priest (Stuart Whitman) to put a stop to the hand’s rampage.
This is a super low budget and amateurish production that doesn’t have much to offer. It should come as no surprise that Quentin Tarantino loves this movie, though I’m not sure why. I’ll have to give his podcast a listen to find out. My guess is, back in the old days, if you could find something obscure no one else had ever seen, and it was weird enough and had maybe one or two WTF moments in it, it was worth praising. These days not so much, I don’t think.
Then again, I love Ed Wood movies so what do I know.
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