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Lately, it seems like many of the movies/shows are just a rehash or reboot of things that have already been done. And so I started to dive into the past. It's been fun, but I find myself losing track of which ones I’ve seen and whether or not I enjoyed them. Sometimes the titles themselves just don't tell me enough to remember.

I wouldn’t have voluntarily watched a lot of these movies when I was younger. It’s strange how interests change. That goes for what I read, too. I have another blog that explores books. I’m mostly reading older fiction and memoirs, and some of the books have led me to movies/shows and vice versa. In those cases, I may post the book review over here as well.

There will be spoilers, which is different than my book reviews. That’s mostly because I want to have enough information to help me remember what I’ve seen. I’m getting older. The brain doesn’t cooperate like it used to. What can I say? The gray hairs are catching up with me!

Monday, April 27, 2026

The Crawling Hand - 1963

This was another blind pick, but I'd actually ended up seeing it before. I wasn't sure until partway through, so we just kept going.

An astronaut has been kept alive for 20 minutes be some weird thing living inside him. He convinces someone in mission control to blow him up, and that's that.

Well, not really. Somehow his arm has survived and is found on the beach by a couple. The girl is understandably upset, while her boyfriend wants to take it with him. He ends up going back and hiding the arm on the jelly shelf. But the arm is out for blood and leaps onto a woman and chokes her. It's infected the guy, and when the alien is in control, he goes goth. His eyes are rimmed in black, and he tries to kill people.

This movie had so much potential. But there wasn't enough of the arm doing its thing. And then other things were confusing. For example: how did the arm get shut in a closet? How was it able to walk on the ceiling? Why did they have to show the cats tearing flesh off the arm? That was just gross. The "science" in this movie was ridiculous, as I would expect in a plot like this. Final verdict - not enough murdering arm...

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