Every Oliver Stone Movie Ranked Worst To Best

20. The Hand

At the bottom of the director's barrel, it's The Hand, released in 1981 to a critical lashing. As the second release of Oliver's directing career, it represents an experiment that really didn't pay off.

The film stars Michael Caine and Andrea Marcovicci with the former playing a comic book illustrator who loses his hand in an accident. As the artist struggles to adjust, his lost hand makes an unexpected appearance and forms a sadistic mind of its own. It's the most widely panned of the director's filmography, sitting at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Stone has never had an affinity for the horror genre and this film is proof positive of that; it attempts to squeeze a serious tone out a simplistic fright formula that belongs squarely in the days of campy B-movies. At the very least, it was incredibly cheap to produce, coming in at a budget of 6.5 million Canadian dollars.

Even with this reduced cost however, The Hand struggled to gain ground. In a decade loaded with brilliant horror flicks, it only managed to scrape back 2.4 million US dollars at the box office. As a result of both the film's poor critical and commercial reception, Oliver Stone has never returned to the genre since.