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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I have no more puns. Once again we have a movie where victims seem to be so slow, they can be captured by something that takes a week to go across a room. Nevertheless, it does allow lots of screaming and terror. The entire astronaut thing goes by without a hitch. A spaceship is blown up at the word of a strange figure (looking like one of the astronauts) suddenly appearing. This forearm has the potential to take over the world (or so we are told). I haven't much to add. A waste of perfectly good film.

Watching The Crawling Hand tonight all I could think of was The Addams Family and The Thing which was guest starring in this film. The Thing should have received top billing.It's hard to believe that so many name players were desperate for work to sign on to this film. An astronaut dies on a mission, but his severed hand takes on a life of its own and starts strangling people. And it possesses the mind of young Rod Lauren who is starting to show some homicidal tendencies.People like Alan Hale, Jr. Peter Breck, Syd Saylor so many I know from many films just look downright embarrassed to be in this thing. And in the end, the security of NASA leaves something to be desired.It's not even funny bad, just bad.

Itinerant hand somehow flies down from space and strangles people; and people also become paranoid and violent. There is supposed to be a connection between the two phenomena, although I couldn't figure out what is was. The space program in the movie sent a man to the moon, he was killed, and the program just sent another without bothering to find out as to what happened to the first.Oh yes, and a flowsy landlady carries around a large, cocked pistol with a hair-trigger, throws it down on table and somehow does -not- blow a hole in her wall. Overly long scenes with no point. Cute Swedish chick is included, as is a *very* poor man's version of James Dean in Steve Curan. Best acting is done by Jackson the Cat. Please, if you have to watch one of these B-movie scholckfests, watch "The Brain that Wouldn't Die" instead. It isn't boring and there is a lot more potential for cuttup material. And that is why we watch these movies, isn't it?

That is the question you will be asking yourself as you watch this sci-fi stinker. The movie obviously takes place before we did any extensive space travel as it involves a kind of force that takes possesion of people. As cool as that sounds the movie is rather dull. Lets just say a rocket blows up after an insane astronaut asks the people to blow it up. His hand ends up on the beach where this dumb guy sees it and wants to wrap it up and put it into storage or something. The hand trys to choke him, then partially tries to control him you know how it goes. Though he does have an attractive girlfriend. And as bad as most of the movies is you still hope the kid doesn't get killed in the end, even if he is a bit dense.