
The Hand(1981)
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.


“Someone is watching ...”
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

Klaus Kinski
Karl Gunther

Talia Balsam
Lori Bancroft

Barbara Whinnery
Harriet Watkins

Carole Francis
Jessica Marlow

Tane McClure
Sophie Fisher
Sally Brown
Martha White
Jack Heller
Alfred Lassiter

David Abbott
Hank Storm
Kenneth Robert Shippy
Josef Steiner

Sherry Buchanan
First Victim (uncredited)
Crawlspace is a horror, thriller film released in 1986. Directed by David Schmoeller, it stars Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery. A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
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