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Body Parts (1991)
Director: Eric Red
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From Time Out Film Guide
Director Eric Red, screenwriter of The Hitcher, gives a grungy new spin to a familiar genre theme in this tacky but vigorous mad doctor movie. Fahey's a criminal psychologist who has a new arm grafted on by doc Duncan, but after his behaviour turns erratic, he discovers that the limb in question once belonged to an executed killer - and that there are other recipients of the deceased slayer's bits and pieces also going haywire around town. Dourif's an artist who received the killer's left arm: in the old days he used to execute tepid watercolours of Cape Cod; now he hurls paint at the canvas with the intensity of Jackson Pollock on a bad day. Loosely based on Choice Cuts, by the French team Narcejac and Boileau, whose novels inspired Vertigo and Les Diaboliques.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Eric Red
Producer: Frank Mancuso Jr
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Zakes Mokae, Brad Dourif, John Walsh, Paul Benvictor full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 94 mins
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