Here comes the fourth article in my tribute to Halloween - each article featuring movies from a different horror sub-genre. For this article we're taking a look at a rather creepy movie monster...the disembodied hand. I'm sure the first thing that comes to mind when people hear "disembodied hand" is The Addams Family with the classic horror/comedy of Thing. Or maybe they think "Hey, what happened to my hand!!". Anyway, I always wanted to see the tunnels by which Thing moved through the Addams mansion. Did they consist of smooth, round tubes or perhaps they were just a series of long, wooden boxes with miniature ladders that led upstairs when needed. Maybe Thing had a pneumatic system that sucked him through plastic tubes from location to location? I guess I'll never solve that brainteaser. Of course, the unsolvable mystery of Thing's transportation routes won't stop us from looking at a batch of films starring his cousins (and in some cases Thing himself), now will it? However, as you might expect, most hands running around without a body have a bit of an attitude problem - they're rarely as nice or as helpful as Thing. So with that fact in mind, here are 10 movies, in no particular order, containing mean and evil disembodied hands.
Honorable Mentions
The Child's Eye (2010) Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) Leprechaun (1993) ...and a plethora of movies where limbs or hands from serial killers are attached to an innocent patient including The Hands of Orlac (1924), Mad Love (1935), Hands of a Stranger (1962), and Body Parts (1991)