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  • mego73
    Printed paperboard Tiger
    • Aug 1, 2003
    • 6690

    How severed hands in older movies are rediculous

    In Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and a couple other movies I remember scenes where someone lends a hand if you will.

    The big problem with these fake severed hands is that the fingers are usually outstretched and set apart.

    That's a good way to mold someone's hand to make a fake hand but a real hand's finger's muscles are up in the fore arm attached to tendons since muscles on the fingers themselves would make them too thick. Outstretched and set apart fingers requires muscular action.

    A real severed hand is likely to have the fingers curled inward.

    So, just adds to the hilarity when Dr. Frankenstein is trying in vain to put his severed hand with outstretched fingers into a rediculously overlong forearm stump.

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  • johnmiic
    Adrift
    • Sep 6, 2002
    • 8427

    #2
    "I remember when I cut a guys head off once." -Bill Hicks

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    • cjefferys
      Duke of Gloat
      • Apr 23, 2006
      • 10180

      #3
      True, but I don't think that the Warhol Frankenstein and Dracula films were going for much realism. (as much as I love the films and Udo Kier's performance in them)

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      • mazinz
        Persistent Member
        • Jul 2, 2007
        • 2249

        #4
        funny you posted this, I just converted over to disc tonight "demonoid" which features a severed hand possessed by the Devil. Considering it came out in 1981 some of the shots are pretty convincing
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