I’m not talking about helpful severed hands like “Thing” from The Addams Family (comic strip, TV series and film franchise) but really evil, sentient severed hands that really enjoy committing murder most foul.
Here then are our picks for the 7 greatest evil severed hand horror movies ever.
From early films like the brilliant Peter Lorre vehicle Mad Love to not-so-brilliant 90s comedy horror favorite Idle Hands, having our hands doing bad things against our will is frightening.
But as the horror genre is prone to doing, the visceral, terrifying concept of losing control of one’s hands has been exploited often.