Lone Wolf

I just watched this for the first time since it came out. Wikipedia lists Robert Englund as the voice of the hand and multiple other websites reference this, but the hand never talked. I also found the wiki quotes page with a list of quotes attributed to the hand. Am I missing something or is this some dumb prank someone pulled?

As for the movie, it wasn’t terrible. I like most of the actors and it had a few laughs. I decided to watch it because Devon Sawa and Sean Whalen will be at a convention I’m going to soon. And the movie has a really good poster.

RocShemp

I always liked that movie. It's as if someone saw the possessed hand scene from Evil Dead II and decided to make a movie around it. On a side note, the sequence in Final Destination when Devon Sawa is going stir crazy in a cabin in the woods also felt like a homage to Evil Dead II.

All that aside, I don't remember any lines from the hand. But didn't it make "vocalizations" as it moved around? Or was that only in Evil Dead II?

Lone Wolf

I couldn’t hear any vocalizations and Robert Englund isn’t listed in the movie credits or on IMDb. All of the quotes I saw on wiki quotes sound like they were lifted from A Nightmare on Elm Street. So weird. Robert Englund will be at the con I’m going to also so I may ask him about it.

RocShemp

Wikipedia claims the following:

I don't remember there being a post-credits scene. But the movie is almost 24 years old...

Lone Wolf

Unless I somehow missed it, there wasn’t a post credits scene.

Lone Wolf

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Idle_Hands

Here’s the link to the wikiquotes page. I checked out a few scenes on my phone and I did hear it say “shit” at the end, but that was it. It’s mixed kind of low too.

GoldenJCJ

I haven’t seen this movie since it originally came out on video. I remember almost nothing about it except it where I saw Jessica Alba for the first time. THAT I remember.

RocShemp

Instant crush.


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devilshalo

Yup.. I remember a panel where Seth and Jessica were with the film's director and they had not seen the trailer for it yet and they both came out into the audience to watch it. She sat in front of me.

This was also an expanded story that was originally supposed to be part of a horror anthology.

lwhy?

I always thought Katie Wright was cute in the devil outfit too. It looks like her last acting role was in 2001 and she's married to Hank Azaria now.

Lone Wolf

I spent the weekend at Mad Monster 2023. I was able to ask Robert Englund about it and he couldn’t remember. He said he’s done so much voiceover work that he gets residuals for stuff he doesn’t remember, so it’s possible he did it. Although if you’ve ever been to one of his panels, or heard him talk, he can recall a tremendous amount of information about his and other peoples movies.

Then I asked Devon Sawa about it. He said the hand doesn’t talk. I told him you can hear a low voice when it dies, but I don’t know about other scenes. He said he doesn’t know who the voice is then. Probably not Robert Englund. I’m still curious how this got started.

RocShemp

Is it weird that I find myself invested in Lone Wolf's investigation into this Robert Englund "connection"? Like I seriously hope there are more updates (and an eventual Netflix series/movie).

Lone Wolf

That’s pretty much the extent of what I can do to find out. When I go to a convention I try and watch as many of the movies of the guests as I can. When I decided to watch this one, I did some reading, and saw Robert Englund mentioned, which intrigued me, since that would make three people from the con also in the movie. Maybe it’s mentioned in the commentary. I may try to pick up a Blu-ray copy and watch sometime soon. The director may be able to answer if he makes appearances. Anyway, here is my signed, original one sheet I picked up for the con. If I had concrete evidence I would have had Robert Englund sign it also.

Runaway

Let's make a miniseries out of it. Lone Wolf: The Idle Hands Chronicles