Ulf Dalquist wrote, in part, on this topic: > 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). BODY PARTS is from a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, who also wrote the novels on which VERTIGO, THE FIENDS, etc., were based. It thus fits with these authors' recurrent theme of a return from the dead, which is itself a variant on the perennial ghost-story idea, concerning things and forces we know not fully of ... - Ken Mogg (Ed., 'The MacGuffin'). http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite