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      The Crawling Hand

      1963 1h 29m Horror List
      Reviews 17% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A medical student (Rod Lauren) finds the deadly hand of a lost astronaut sought by scientists (Peter Breck, Kent Taylor). Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Mar 19 Buy Now

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      Audience Member If an astronaut crash lands and says things like, "My hand… makes me do things…. kill…. kill!" At this point, you may say, perhaps this is not lack of oxygen in the astronaut's helmet but he may really have something wrong with him. There's also a medical student named Paul (Rod Lauren was a singer who released the song "If I Had a Girl" before acting; he moved to the Philippines where he married actress Nida Blanca. He became the lead suspect in her death when she was stabbed in a parking garage, then fought extradition back to the country for years before jumping off a hotel room balcony; sorry to bring everyone down with who Paul really was) who finds the astronaut's hand and well, keeps it. Because that's what doctors do: keep desiccated hands that they find from space crashes. Paul starts to use the power of the hand to attack people he dislikes and becomes obsessed with it. The police — led by The Skipper Alan Hale Jr. — try to catch him and the space agency starts to realize that the fingerprints of the dead astronaut are all over the place. So Paul takes the hand to the beach and tries to destroy it and some cats try to eat it, because that's the kind of movie The Crawling Hand is. Somehow, writer Rick Moody used this film as inspiration for his novel Four Fingers of Death, the tale of writer Montese Crandall, who attempts to get over the death of his wife by throwing himself into his work and writing a remake of The Crawling Hand. Director Herbert L. Strock also made Gog and The Devil's Messenger and one of the co-writers was Joe Cranston, the father of Bryan. None of them noticed that at times, the crawling hand is a left hand a right hand at other times. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is a complete wast of shit. Badly acted, lac of violence and certain elements that don't always make sense, it's only interesting on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version. On it's own, it's just a steamy dull feature. Only one person in the entire film is actually killed by the hand, the rest go alive. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Before the Idle Hand, you have the Crawling Hand. An alien possessed hand from an Astronaut returned to Earth and began attacking nice folks. A young pal Paul stumbled upon the hand and took it home and the terror began. With a limited budget, it managed to get some decent actors like Rod Lauren. The story was silly and not a lot of scares to be found. 2 stars for effort. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty thoroughly silly but kind of entertaining. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member An extremely hilariously bad movie. Best watched with the MST3K commentary. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member not bad for a old movie. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A medical student (Rod Lauren) finds the deadly hand of a lost astronaut sought by scientists (Peter Breck, Kent Taylor).
      Director
      Herbert L. Strock
      Production Co
      Joseph F. Robertson Productions
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 27, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 29m
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