The Hand (1981) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - May 14, 1981

The Hand was the second, of only two, horrors films written and directed by Oliver Stone. The first being an under scene oddity from 1974 titled Seizure, which started Jonathan Fried and Martine Beswick.

While I remember the ad campaign, both newspaper and TV spots, and reading about the film in the pages of both The Twilight Zone and Fangoria magazines,  I would not see the film itself until it debuted on HBO.

Although I did part with some coin in the spring of 1981 in order to purchase the source material's retitled movie tie-in edition. I never got around to actually, you know, reading it. So it goes.

While I am on the subject of somewhat embarrassing (to me, at least) admissions. While D-Day had been one of my favorite characters in Animal House (1978), I did not recognize character actor Bruce McGill in this film as the actor that had played that very character. Then again, I was all of 13 or 14 years old at that time and far more interested in Adrienne Barbeau.