The Severed Arm
The Severed Arm
R | 02 November 1973 (USA)
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Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Grimossfer

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

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SeeQuant

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

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Brooklynn

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

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Mhamm520

although the movie's acting and directing were very amateur, the plot was an amazing concept. the films script was cheesy, but the story in general was genius. the whole time watching the film, i was thinking to myself that if this movie had th chance, it could be very good. again, its not the story that was bad, it was the acting and directing. i mean if u look a the basic idea, a group of people stuck in a cave, fighting one another for each others flesh, thats a winning plot right there, just ready for any big time producer to bite into. if this move is redone today, with a larger budget and a better cast and crew, this could be a very popular film. too bad it just wasn't done right the first time around.

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Woodyanders

Six starving, desperate geologists are trapped in a cave for two weeks. Five of these guys cut off the arm of a sixth luckless dude and eat it. Shortly after the limb hacking incident, the men are saved by a rescue party. Five years later the understandably embittered fellow who got his appendage severed vows revenge. He begins killing the other five guys by cutting off one of their arms with a hatchet. While the sound premise certainly has plenty of potential, it's unfortunately undermined by a very dull and uninspired execution. Thomas S. Alderman's drab, listless direction and hideously talky'n'tedious script suck all the fun and vitality out of the solid story. The tame, unconvincing gore f/x, Philllan Bishop's shrill, unmelodious droning synthesizer score, the sluggish pace, Bob Maxwell's dark, bland, ugly cinematography and a real groaner of a would-be startling surprise "twist" ending are all likewise uniformly awful. Familiar 70's B-feature faces Deborah ("Benji") Walley, Paul ("The Bat People") Carr, John ("Outlaw Blues") Crawford, Vince ("The Candy Snatchers") Martorano, and Marvin ("Fangs") Kaplan sleepwalk through their insipid parts, thereby failing to bring any energy or conviction to their boring and flatly drawn characters. Early in the film one character gravely intones, "Something's really rotten." I wholeheartedly concur; that something really rotten is this incredibly feeble and worthless chunk of atrocious cinematic offal.

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callanvass

This is an absolutely worthless Horror film, that's extremely boring, the only bright spot in the film is the ending, as it was quite cool. All the characters are very dull, and the story isn't all that interesting, plus I'm quite certain I got the censored version, as their is hardly any gore in sight, other then the severed arm we see a few time's throughout the movie. It's very poorly made and written, and I thought the performances were especially bad as well, plus It's extremely hard to pay attention at times, because it's painfully dull, as not much happens. It consists a lot of people walking around, lots of dialog, people driving, and creating no interesting characters, plus as I said while the ending was very good, it's nowhere near enough to save this piece of junk. I got this in a DVD Horror set called Back From The Grave, along with a bunch of other horror films, plus the music score at the beginning was actually pretty creepy, as I was thinking this might not be to bad, sadly I was wrong. This is an absolutely worthless Horror film, that's extremely boring, the only bright spot in the film, is the ending, as it was quite cool, however it's not enough Avoid it!. The Direction is very bad. Thomas S. Alderman does a very bad job here, with shoddy camera work, and keeping the film at an incredibly dull pace. The Acting is absolutely atrocious, as none of them are really worth commenting on, in my opinion. Overall, avoid it please. (half star) out of 5

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Angela Dean

Over all, if you take into account the year it was made, this movie wasn't too bad. I have seen movies much newer that were much, much worse. I mean, it's not nasty gory, or heart-in-your-throat scary, but it has it's moments. There's plotting, a bit of blood, and some hack-and-slash. And as avid a horror movie watcher I am, I STILL didn't see the 'brother' angle coming. The only part I didn't like, was the ending. I mean, they got the last guy, he's locked in a room with a knife. For poetic justice, his options are either cut off his own arm or starve to death. And THAT'S where they end it!! Blasted cliffhangers!! I hate it when movies do that.. It's just...wrong!!

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