La Lengua asesina/Killer Tongue (Alberto Sciamma, 1996), Furankenshutain no Kaiju: Sanda tai Gaira (Ishiro Honda, 1966), The Materialists (1999)--have to look up the director, it was a master's thesis from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "Love is not a positive emotion that begins in us and ends in the positive response of someone else. Love is divine energy that comes from God and has no end." --Eric Butterworth On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Klaus Bardenhagen wrote: > I am looking for films that follow the pattern of Robert Wiene's ORLAC'S > HANDS (1924) or Maurice Renard's original novel: Somebody is influenced by > organs he got from a transplantation, e.g. haunted by the evil spirit of the > donator. > > Of course, there are the "official" remakes: Mad Love, The Hands of Orlac > (starring Christopher Lee), Hands of a Stranger (1962). > Then there is Body Parts (1991, Jeff Fahey) and Blink (Madeline Stowe). I > heard of some Italian horror films and a Tales From the Crypt-episode, as > well as an episode from Carpenter/Hooper's Body Bags, but could not get a lot > of information on this. > > I am trying to work out the influence Wiene's film had on the development > of the thriller/horror genre as well as the implications/themes of this > particular story: why is it so popular, what basic anxieties does it touch? > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Klaus Bardenhagen > > -- > Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu