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Fahey plays
a criminal psychologist who loses his right arm in a traffic
accident. As one reviewer points out he should have been wearing
a seatbelt. |
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But he gets
a new arm grafted on. And surprise, surprise the |
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new arm
comes from a criminal. And because Fahey's |
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character
works in prisons we learn that a tattoo on his wrist |
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(stinker)
means the arm came from someone on death row. |
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What reveals
the level of the film's plausibility is that Fahey |
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hadn't
noticed the tattoo until a prisoner points it out. |
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When he
discovers the donor was a serial killer this works on |
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his
imagination and he says he has a murderer's blood in his |
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system ( a
piece of nonsense which isn't true in a medical |
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Brad Dourif
once again plays a deranged individual who has |
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got the left
arm. And as a result has become a successful |
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artist.
Though the guy who got the legs loses control on |
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The surgeon
responsible for the transplants turns out to be |
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another mad
scientist (shamefully played by the excellent |
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Lindsay
Duncan). There is an absurd scene in her laboratory |
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which
features a 'living' torso. |
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The story is
transplanted from Mad Love (The Hands of |
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