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Body Parts (1991)

Body Parts poster
Directed by
Eric Red
Genre
horror film, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 133 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A psychologist receives a donated arm after a car crash. He starts having violent visions and finds the arm has a murderous will of its own.

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What happens

Body Parts is a 1991 American sci-fi body horror film directed by Eric Red and starring Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae, and Lindsay Duncan. It was produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., from a screenplay by Red and Norman Snider, who dramatized a story that Patricia Herskovic and Joyce Taylor had based on the horror novel Choice Cuts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film follows a psychologist who undergoes an experimental arm transplant surgery and begins having visions of murders. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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