The hand (2023)

"It lives. It crawls. And suddenly, it kills."

The Hand is a 1981 American psychological horror film written and directed by Oliver Stone, based on the novel The Lizard's Tail by Marc Brandell.

The film stars Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, and Bruce McGill. Special effects were provided by Carlo Rambaldi and Stan Winston.

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident.

The hand horror movie

The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around and murder those who anger him.

Tropes used in The Hand include:

• Air-Vent Passageway: At the end of the film, the hand reappears emerging from an air vent in the mental hospital.

  Justified, as it is a self-mobile severed hand and has no trouble fitting through a vent.

• Ambiguous Ending: Just how real is the hand? While the film initially seems to indicate that the hand wasn't real and was just a delusion of Joe's broken mind, at the climax it suddenly reappears to ki