Too precariously straddles the line between fun and cheese, often going a bit too far over the top.
Idle Hands (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 8
Rotten:44
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Consensus: Idle Hands has neither the humor or the scares to satisfy audiences.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Anton is a teenage stoner who, one Halloween season, realizes two days after the fact that his parents have been beheaded. He is even more disturbed to learn that the culprit may be his recently... Anton is a teenage stoner who, one Halloween season, realizes two days after the fact that his parents have been beheaded. He is even more disturbed to learn that the culprit may be his recently demon-possessed hand. With the help of some fellow young drug abusers, some sharp objects (used to disembody several body parts), and a demon hunter (Viveca A. Fox), he may possibly restore some normalcy to his life. [More]
Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, Vivica A. Fox
Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, Vivica A. Fox, Jessica Alba, Sean Whalen, Fred Willard, Jack Noseworthy, Katie Wright
Director: Rodman Flender
Director: Rodman Flender
Screenwriter: Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer
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Sep 2, 2008
Reviews for Idle Hands
Ganha pontos pelo perverso senso de humor, mas acaba soando demais como uma cópia de "Evil Dead 2" para merecer uma recomendação.
Were you expecting a teen remake of The Hands of Orlac? Don't hold your breath.
Stupid, silly fun with a decent amount of gore and heavy dose of teen humor
All of these people can make better movies than this, and most of them have.
The attempts to extract comedy from this grim raw material are leaden, blood-soaked disasters.
Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.
When it's over, you may feel like cutting off your own hand for having paid good money at the ticket counter.
A script filled with blunt dialogue on sex, drugs and violence that's neither funny nor particularly original.
If an original thought found its way into this horror-comedy it would die of loneliness.
When a movie sets out to be awful and achieves its goal, does that make it a success?
The most overtly ideological moment comes when pot-smoking proves the boys' best weapon against evil.
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