Body Parts

1991 "Where does evil live, the heart, the mind or the flesh?"
5.7| 1h28m| R| en
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A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

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Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
leplatypus I didn't put this Kim's movie of my watch-list and after watching it, my decision was wise as it's so bad or more accurately not the movie i expected : I thought that with Kim's talent and stardom, she would have been the central character and that the Frankenstein husband would go at her ! But this is not that : Kim plays only the supportive wife in the background and all the movie resolves around the husband : as he meets with other transplanted and there is violence, blood, and indeed gore, i wasn't not at all motivated to see how this stupid story would evolve. So the only interest was to see this young natural Kim. She was cute with her shorts hair and playing also a young mother. It's a pity she couldn't find better and much then
craigh01 Jeff Lahey gets a transplanted arm from a serial killer...Then, he begins, (of course) to have "problems" with his new arm...I can't see how this is getting such a low rating. It was completely entertaining from beginning to end. I watched it 3 times...It's not really a "horror" movie so to speak, although there are some slightly disturbing scenes, just a fun movie to watch. If you want a high-brow movie this is not it.Jeff Lahey's acting is not all that great (as usual, except he was great in Lawnmower man). All of the rest of the acting was good, a few exciting scenes, a little bit of a mystery gets unveiled as you go. Just all around a fun movie.
BA_Harrison The somewhat ludicrous idea of a transplant patient being controlled by their new limb dates back as far as F.W. Murnau's 1924 expressionist classic The Hands of Orlac, in which a pianist who loses his hands in an accident is given transplants from the body of a recently executed murderer with disastrous results.In Body Parts, Eric Red's 1991 take on this macabre tale, several people receive replacement limbs from convicted killer Charley Fletcher, but it is prison psychologist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) who first begins to suspect that there is something not quite right when his new right arm exhibits uncharacteristic behaviour, hitting his son and throttling his wife (Kim Delaney) while she sleeps.Bill is understandably shocked when he eventually discovers the identity of his arm's original owner, and demands that his surgeon Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) remove the troublesome appendage, but she refuses, unwilling to undo her groundbreaking work. Meanwhile, Fletcher, whose head has been attached to a new body by the clearly deranged Webb, is running around savagely tearing his transplanted extremities from their new owners.The concept might be extremely well worn, providing the basis for more than a handful of horrors over the years, but Eric Red manages to bring new life to the 'evil transplanted limb' idea by acknowledging its sheer silliness and simply running with it. It takes a while to get into the swing of things, but once Fletcher starts to reclaim his lost body parts, the fun really begins, with Red serving up some great gore and outlandish plot developments.The film's most preposterous moment comes as Bill is sitting in a police car: Fletcher drives alongside, slaps handcuffs on Bill's wrist and tries to pull his arm off by quickly accelerating away. Fortunately, Detective Sawchuck (Zakes Mokae) is in the driving seat and miraculously keeps up with Fletcher's vehicle as it careens headlong through oncoming traffic while Bill desperately tries to remove the cuffs. It's an extremely dumb sequence, but well executed and hugely entertaining.In a glorious Grand Guignol-style finale, Bill confronts the mad doctor and Fletcher in a laboratory where the convict's reclaimed severed limbs and bloody torso are now suspended in a tank of liquid. In a marvellously splattery and absurdly grotesque finish, a desperate battle breaks out, during which Bill wrests a shotgun from Fletcher and proceeds to blow the crap out of anything that twitches, finally destroying the killer's connection with his arm in the process.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.
callanvass I saw this quite a few years ago when I was younger, and I remembered being fairly unimpressed with it. How do I feel about it now?? I kinda dug it actually, it's got some balls. They really don't make them like this anymore. Not only does it have a car crash scene that makes some of the scenes in a Final Destination movie look weak in comparison. Watching Jeff Fahey go all unruly with everybody is always a treat to watch. I also really dug the family values in this one. Fahey's family really acted like a natural family, and I really felt for Fahey's descent into craziness. There are some things that I questioned, though. I didn't buy how Bill's (Fahey) kids were all nice to Bill, despite the fact that he knocks his son around, and yells a lot. You would think the kids would learn not to go around him. I also felt the finale was overblown. It was entertaining, don't get me wrong, but it was a bit too chaotic for my liking. It also has some pointless characters as well; Zakes Mokae as the detective being one of them. Jeff Fahey is a criminally underrated actor. He has always been one of my favorites, and why this man is stuck in DTV hell right now is beyond me. Stop being stupid Hollywood and recognize this man's talents! His unpredictable show is a main reason why this film is so entertaining. Kim Delaney lends able support as the caring wife, I dug her a lot. She's not too hard to look at either. Brad Douriff plays a likable role for once. That was rather funFinal Thoughts: It has its faults, but I simply cannot deny the entertainment it provides. Go in with low expectations and have a blast with this puppy. If you like gore, Fahey going nuts like nobody else can, I would check this one out. 6/10