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Dismemberama: Creeping, Crawling Body Parts in Cult Cinema
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The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition)The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.34
It's a really big eye with tentacles and it is out to get FORREST TUCKER! If you can dig up the MST version of this, do so!
The Crawling HandThe Crawling Hand
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This is a good one--a dead astronaut's hand attacks Alan Hale Jr.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Crawling HandMystery Science Theater 3000 - The Crawling Hand
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $9.84
MST version is quite good.
The Brain That Wouldn't DieThe Brain That Wouldn't Die
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.05
I have a special list dedicated exclusively to disembodied head/brain films. See my other lists for more of this type.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Manos, the Hands of FateMystery Science Theater 3000 - Manos, the Hands of Fate
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I just had to put it in. Not really crawling hands per se, but it loosely fits. NO TORGO, NO!
The Amazing TransplantThe Amazing Transplant
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.35
Oh dear. . . the tawdry tale that focuses on a special body part. . . uh. . . you know. . . you might say it has a mind of its own (which is evil)!
Hands of BloodHands of Blood
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A gritty and haunting film also released as Stepsisters and The Texas Hill Killings, this low-budget indie favorite shot on location in Texas offers an offbeat, perverse array of bizarre characters.
FrankenhookerFrankenhooker
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Henenlotter, we love you. This movie features exploding hookers in a Weird Science-esque plot.
Doctor GoreDoctor Gore
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He's a sexy modern day Frankenstein--lots of blood, lots of body parts.
The Gruesome Twosome (Special Edition)The Gruesome Twosome (Special Edition)
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Hair is a body part, right? Here on some scalpers who run a wig shop--100% real human hair.
Carnival of Blood / Curse of the Headless HorsemanCarnival of Blood / Curse of the Headless Horseman
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Curse of the Headless Horseman is a slow moving, plotless debacle. Survive a viewing of this one and you'll be stronger. . . maybe.
Sinister HandsSinister Hands
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $0.33
Slow, stupid swami/fortune telling fu manchu style suspense thriller. Turbans more sinister than hands.
Lady FrankensteinLady Frankenstein
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This Hammer-esque Italianate features some blandly titilating shots of Bey, but the whole thing really fails to deliver in the body parts area. Great cover.
TormentedTormented
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This one has got an accusatory disembodied head! MST version is great. This movie is also included as the bonus feature on SWV Creep Show Spooktacular.
Dead AliveDead Alive
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $6.53
This one should be in Zombie category, but it does have some really great crawling body parts--inside and out (i.e. the crawling intestines, et al)
The Screaming Skull/Werewolf Vs VampireThe Screaming Skull/Werewolf Vs Vampire
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Not really so much a "screaming" skull. Nice of the filmmakers to take out an insurance policy on us viewers, though.
Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Bride of / Son of / Ghost of / House of)Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Bride of / Son of / Ghost of / House of)
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The original body part bonanza.
Hands of Orlac [VHS]Hands of Orlac [VHS]
Buy used from: $8.24
Conrad Veidt (Cesare from Caligari) can't control his murderous transplant hands in this anti war pseudo expressionistic allegory.
The PenaltyThe Penalty
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Lon Chaney could be Foucault's postmodernist poster boy for the fragmentation of "the body." Sounds like grad school all over again--a great T. Browning film, actually.
Mad Love (1935) [VHS]Mad Love (1935) [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.50
This Orlac knockoff features a creepy Lorre who haunts his hand transplant patient as the ghost the previous owner (in order to get at his wife, a macabre Guignolesque performer).
J'Accuse [VHS]J'Accuse [VHS]
Buy used from: $24.95
This is the intellectual addition to the list--this anti-war film from 1939 recalls the physical disfigurations of first world war on the eve of the second. Features parade of disfigured WW1 veterans
FreaksFreaks
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.99
Browning's carnival of the mutants ends with the transformation of a beautiful trapeze artist into a legless "chicken" woman in the sideshow. Classic film.
Rock & Roll FrankensteinRock & Roll Frankenstein
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Man, this stupid movie features a misguided collection of dead rock-n-rollers body parts coming together in a really ridiculous monster.
Deadly WeaponsDeadly Weapons
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Okay, maybe I should not have included this wonderful disaster. The body parts are enormously oversize breasts used to kill unsuspected perverts. Bad lighting enhances cellulite.