Hands of a Stranger (1962)
haunted hands! haunted hands! haunted hands!
started off very concerned that I played the wrong movie, so make of that what you will
like fifteen minutes in and all i can think of is ‘this feels too much like a real movie to shitpost about’
‘these dudes got their med degrees in the mail from mad magazine, they got this‘ @realdirtfacts
shoutout to the surgeon and the sister of the pianist for some fucking excellent delivery of very dramatic speeches that become very silly if you think about the dialogue for more than five seconds.
(majority of chat succumbs to re-animator related brain rot for assorted reasons)
‘love that this movie isnt remarkable enough to directly shitpost about so we've just gone off on our own wild tangents’ @beetleboo
‘it is easily the most competent movie I watched since I joined!’ sam not-on-this-site
another movie with an excellent score (which is fittingly heavy on the piano)
this is less like... supernatural/not-real-science horror and more almost thriller horror? an interesting change of pace from what we usually get when we pull out a film from a horror collection. it’s definitely not haunted hands, and I think it was a little misrepresented on that front.
also the actor who plays the pianist, james stapleton, reminded a few of us of Rami Malek, mostly with the eyes and hair.
rated a solid 8/10 on the beetsometer. a little cheesy and overblown at times, but thats just kinda How Things Were. I genuinely enjoyed this one just... as a movie. feels weird to say about something here. the biggest thing it suffers from is JARRING ENDING-ITIS but thats like 98% of the movies we watch here. this one suffered that to a lesser degree than most, at least!
described by others as ‘fascinating and competent’, ‘unexpected but not in a bad way’
‘that was a genuinely good movie???? is that even allowed’ @gwenfrankenstien
emoji of the movie: clowning
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