Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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

Hands of Orlac once again gets a treatment, this time by writer/director Eric Red, starring Jeff Fahey (back when he still had his matinée idol looks) as a professor of psychology and often visits criminals in prison to study what makes them commit evil. When he suffers a horrible traffic accident thanks to a car losing its tire, it takes his right arm. A breakthrough arm surgery through a "grafting procedure" sees that Fahey will not be without the missing limb...it comes with a price. The arm, he soon discovers, was taken from a serial killer eventually executed. Two other men also received body parts from the killer in surgeries by Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan), a painter named Remo Lacey (Brad Dourif) and a young man named Mark Draper (Peter Murnik) who had both legs applied after spending time in a wheelchair without them. Eventually, though, someone is "coming to collect".I found some of the plot rather fascinating, as Fahey's Bill Crushank truly dedicates himself to understanding where evil comes from, and how the arm attached to him is ruining his life. The arm is violent, smacking his son and nearly choking his wife while he was sleeping in bed. He can see the murders in his dreams committed by the killer, and Bill increasingly has that gnawing feeling the murder's influence is taking hold of him. Reaching out to the others (Mark's legs cause him to nearly wreck into ongoing traffic), he finds that both men are suitably pleased with their new body parts (Remo's painting reflects what the killer sees; he claims the images just "come from the air" and that he's making far more money since he got his new arm than before when he was creating work for the walls of hotel rooms).The film left me a bit unsatisfied because I think Red has something here that eventually goes off the rails at the end when someone returns to take back the grafted body parts "given away". It is really quite bloody and graphically violent (legs gone, a victim going out a window, losing his grip once one of his arms is pulled right from the torso it belongs), but the reasoning is rather loony. A head actually being transplanted and kept from dying, body parts hooked to "life support", being pumped with a blood supply and machines, and limbs being "confiscated" from "their rightful owner", with Webb's eventual approval (taking a turn towards mad science) leaves Body Parts deteriorating into camp. It left me rather awestruck after following Bill through the travails of this arm causing him much grief that the film decides to turn loose a serial killer towards the end seemingly for shock value. Kim Delaney is the wife of Fahey, just unable to tolerate her husband's danger to her and the children. I had forgotten just how beautiful Kim was or that she was in this movie. The car crash that caused Fahey to need the arm is horrific, the crime scene with the missing legs is gruesome, and Dourif's character is totally enthusiastic about what the arm has done for his life (for the better), not discouraged by Fahey's misery and forewarning about what the body parts might have wrong with them. Dourif's performance is lively and energetic, I'll give him that. I have seen him better, though. I guess his performance fits the character he's provided: a lease on life anew, Bill's concerns pale in comparison to the profit afforded to him. Webb's attitude towards Bill regarding his desire to have the arm removed, not concealing her staggering apathy and disregard for his well being and hope to get rid of it so he can get his life back provides the film quite a cold and remoresless sociopath. Webb's devotion to her work, even if it is harmful to the recipients of the parts she grafts to patients presents her as quite the villain, deserved of her eventual fate.

Criminal examiner Bill Chrushank (Fahey) has a terrible car accident that leaves him alive but his right arm has been severed. Experimental scientist Dr. Webb (Duncan) convinces Bill's wife Karen (Delaney) to let her perform an operation that would give her someone else's right arm. The operation is a success and after therapy Bill is like new. Bill begins to have disturbing dreams and visions of murder and one day he knocks his son across the room with his arm. Bill knows he didn't mean to and it was like the arm did it without Bill's consent. Bill wants to know whose arm is on his body so a buddy at the police department runs his prints and Bill discovers the arm came from a recently executed death row inmate named Charlie Fletcher (John Walsh) who had murdered over 20 people. With further investigation, Bill learns all of Charlie's body parts were transplanted by Dr. Webb who refuses to do anything about it. Bill tracks down the others who received part of Charlie and they are all suffering from similar problems. The person that got Charlie's head and mind is now slowly going around and taking his original body parts back so no one is safe. Eric Red directs this horror film with an eye on the psychological terror lead character Bill is going through. When Bill sits in a bar contemplating if evil is in the mind flesh or heart we are transfixed as an audience. What Red does very well is mix the emotional side of what is happening to his characters and the extreme violence and gore that is present with Fletcher recollecting his body parts. What could have been extremely silly and over the top isn't due to the nice balance within the story and how it was handled. Jeff Fahey as Bill Chrushank turns in a fine lead performance and the supporting cast is strong as well. Body Parts certainly delivers in the gore and blood department but it is mixed into an involving story that stays believable despite some wild leaps in the story. A haunting and well-fitting musical score by Loek Dikker contributes to a very solid and entertaining horror film which has a lot to offer.

When Bill Chrashank loses his arm in a car accident, he has the arm of an executed murderer grafted on in its place. The only problem, as he soon discovers, is that the arm is possessed by a force he cannot control.....This used to be a firm favourite of mine when I was a teen, here in the UK, it was a straight to video release, and not many people saw it, so it vanished almost without a trace.Seeing it almost twenty years later, it's aged pretty badly, and although it's a schlocky, hokey horror, it does take the main character too seriously, as supporting characters are a lot more entertaining, and make it the B-movie it should be.It's not Fahey's fault, he's a great actor, and can do nuts no problem, but he just spends the majority of the movie maundering around, cutting himself shaving, or shouting at his kids.The final third makes up for the dull first two, by going bonkers, and upping the gore factor, which, for 1991, is pretty graphic.So it's one of those movies that isn't as good as you'd like to remember, but still watchable fluff.