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      Bloody Knuckles

      2014 1h 25m Comedy Horror List
      Reviews 27% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Travis, an underground comic artist, has his hand cut off by a Chinatown crime boss when he draws an insulting comic. He becomes a miserable alcoholic until his hand returns from the grave. Read More Read Less

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      Dan Scully Cinema76 Bloody Knuckles satisfies almost every entry on my subconscious genre film check list. Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Robert Kojder Flickering Myth If you do find a self-aware hand pulling down someone's pants and poking them in the ass as a method of convincing that person to regain their courage funny, then by all means seek out this movie because the comedy will be right up your alley Rated: 2/5 Dec 4, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Its prescient message about fighting back against censorship is at times pushed a bit too far in the opposite direction, resulting in uncomfortable moments of shock-for-shock's-sake. What we're left with is a disgusting, disjointed, "horror comedy" that never manages to succeed completely at being either one. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Man, Bloody Knuckles is a strange movie. This dude's hand gets cut off after insulting some asian gangsters and then all hell breaks loose. He gets depressed after this incident and seeks alcohol to comfort him (though the movie doesn't do a good job at making the viewer "feel" this). Anyway, the hand that got chopped off comes to life and seeks revenge on the bad guys. The gore was good but the acting is preventing me from giving it a 6/10. Overall, it's a 5/10 OR 2.5/5 AVERAGE. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member only thing really got going for it is its gorey as fook in parts. apart from that too many boring parts acting a fooking shambles which if not boring couldve dealt with. overall worth seeing once no again. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member In short: Contemporary issues around freedom of speech, how far a cartoonist can go, wrapped very well into a coherent story with humor, romance and very special effects Saw this at the IMAGINE film festival 2015 in Amsterdam. Contemporary issues with freedom of speech, and how far one can go as a journalist or cartoonist, are very well scripted into a coherent story. The blood and gore is a bit over-the-top and could have been less, but it fits the story and is not far fetched. Apart from the humor that is included to provide for some relief, there is even a bit of romance. The odd couple Travis and Amy are the perfect candidates to live happily ever after, if (a great if) they succeed in surmounting all the obstacles raised by business man Mr Fong, who is not very amused with their publications. A nice find is the Text-To-Speech software we saw installed on Travis' computer in the beginning, as it got an important role later in the proceedings. Apart from "talking" to Travis via the keyboard by means of this software, the detached hand proves very capable all along the story. It certainly has a will and mind (?) of its own. Actually, the hand can be considered the main star here, though that may do injustice to the other special effects where we see the most incredible things happen with severed human body parts. According to Mr Fong, the villain in this story: Nothing is greater than the profit. This pun on profit/prophet is not the only fun as icing on the cake, however, and a lot of humor is interwoven in the proceedings. It takes our mind away from the horrible things that Mr Fong has in mind when people do not listen to his friendly "advice". All in all, a remarkable film due to the mix of humor, romance, horror, and incorporating the contemporary theme of journalistic freedom and how far one can go in insulting others, exposing secrets, or bringing wrongdoings to light. My company who is usually not very keen on Horror films, had no regrets to have seen this one, due to the Horror elements fitting the story and were not there only for the sake of it. And we got sufficient relief, needed to alleviate the blood and gore induced by Mr Fong and his assistants. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Travis, an underground comic artist, has his hand cut off by a Chinatown crime boss when he draws an insulting comic. He becomes a miserable alcoholic until his hand returns from the grave.
      Director
      Matt O'Mahoney
      Producer
      Todd Giroux, Michael O'Mahoney
      Genre
      Comedy, Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 23, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 25m