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Freaky, but very good news...

Imagine if you could bequeath someone your hands...

Would you bite your 'new' nails if you'd had a hand transplant from a tramp or a gynaecologist?

Fantastic news though... especially for virtuoso pianists who juggle chainsaws as a hobby.

i'd have hendrix's left hand, and derren brown's right...guitar, paint...magic...

i would worry incase they sowed them on upside down and back-to-front though...

or put feet on them instead...

now that is real magic. must be amazing for that woman!

Unless it starts doing it's own thing and she wakes up one night with her hands trying to strangle her.
I saw it in a documentry once....or was it a hammer horror film?? Either way it's true, honest

that was The Hand with michael caine in it i think...

even worse, imagine waking up in the middle of the night with these new hands (or is that second hands?) doing something sordid under the sheets without asking permission...

good excuse though...

Bit like that episode of furtruam when Fry trads his hands for the Devils.

Can I have David stones hand please please i be good. Or Steve Vai's I reckon he would make a great magician.

There's a neurological condition where people think their body parts don't belong to them. This guy once woke up in a hospital bed and became convinced that someone had put a human leg in the bed with him for a sick joke. He literally throw himself out of bed trying to get rid of it.

Oliver Sacks (the real-life doctor of Awakenings with Robert De Niro) wrote about it in one of his books.

In this case, the hand really wouldn't belong to you. So if you had the neurological condition, had an accident and then a hand transplant, you'd be cured. Unless you thought it was your other hand that belonged to someone else. Then you'd be unlucky

greedoniz wrote:Unless it starts doing it's own thing and she wakes up one night with her hands trying to strangle her.
I saw it in a documentry once....or was it a hammer horror film?? Either way it's true, honest

Theres one story in the film 'DR Terrors House of Horrors' (Amicus) that features a similar story. Christopher Lee plays an art critic who runs over an artist who humiliates him. The artist loses his hand which later comes back to seek revenge on the critic

There's also one where Tom Baker is an artist living in Haiti (or somewhere) and earns a pittance sending his paintings off to London and having them sold by his agent. He finds out that he's actually become a really popular artist and that his paintings sell for £££. To get revenge, he mixes up some voodoo-hoodoo and paints the three men who have been exploiting him.

On one of the men's painting, Baker draws a red line over the man's hands. The scene cuts to the man using an office guillotine (the old ones with the big chopping blade) and you guessed it - the blade falls down just when the man's hands are beneath it.

The twist at the end is really good.

I can't remember the name of the film but it's the one where people are stuck in a lift and someone says "this is like a nightmare" and someone else replies "no a nightmare is much more frightening". They all trot out their nightmares and the one above is Tom Baker's character's dream.

There was also a film that involved a guy with a possessed hand who saws it off with a chainsaw and then replaces his hand with the same chainsaw.'Night of the Living Dead' maybe...

I dunno. It will be interesting to see if the woman gets near full use of her hands back though. Even if they are moving on their own.

trickyricky wrote:There was also a film that involved a guy with a possessed hand who saws it off with a chainsaw and then replaces his hand with the same chainsaw

That sounds like Evil Dead II. I was thinking of a film called Idle hands where a guys hand gets possessed by the devil so he chops it off and it starts killing people.

Had the lovely Jessica Alba in it

Misanthropy wrote:

trickyricky wrote:There was also a film that involved a guy with a possessed hand who saws it off with a chainsaw and then replaces his hand with the same chainsaw

That sounds like Evil Dead II. I was thinking of a film called Idle hands where a guys hand gets possessed by the devil so he chops it off and it starts killing people.

i thought that happened in number one.

and a good horror on hands is by Clive Barker, master of horror.

It was the second one but it doesn't really matter cause the second is basically a rehash of the first. You'd have thought that he would have learnt his lesson in the first one