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Released
1981 · FILM

The Hand

“It lives. It crawls. And suddenly, it kills.”

Directed by
Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone Nm0000231
Written by
Marc Brandel, Oliver Stone
Runtime
104 min
DramaHorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around and murder those who anger him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard MarksShot by King BaggotScored by James HornerDesigned by J Michael Riva

Box Office

1981 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$567K

Budget$6.5M
Worldwide gross$567K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $567K — 23% of its US run.

Peak 183 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Handde
  • La manoes
  • La Main du cauchemarfr
  • La manoit

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