BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

billoneil2 I first saw this film on WXYZ TV's "Scream Theater" in Detroit during the late 1970s. Back then, a movie made in 1961 was one of the more "recent" films showing on TV.I always loved this film. I love the fantastic opening theme by Baker Knight and the Knight-mares. I also like the immaculate B&W cinematography (you have to see a fine grain 35mm print to appreciate it). The mood throughout is excellent--with very few dollars at their disposal, the producers succeed in creating a stylish twilight world where evil magic is quite real. The finely sculpted voodoo dolls are very creepy and the incidental music adds to the film's eeriness.The actors are all good, although I always felt Robert Alda wasn't attractive enough for the role of "Rick." When I was in high school and this was showing up on late night TV, I felt he "just missed" being handsome. Sleazy-sexy Ray Danton would have been my choice—Ray was HOT.I remember when 1981 rolled around and "Devil's Hand" was scheduled to air one Friday night. TV Guide listed its release date as 1961 and I was shocked to think this movie was now 20 years old! Up until then, movies made in the early sixties were fairly recent history—everyone remembered them.Today, nobody remembers them. Marijuana-worshiping 21st century audiences sneer because the actors wore attractive clothes (not jeans & tank tops), had their hair done (no floppy Marcia Brady 'dos) and had their faces on before being photographed...what a concept! "The Devil's Hand" is more than a creepy, late-night thriller. It's a handsome time capsule which proves America was a LOT more attractive before the drug-fueled "cultural revolution." Goodbye 1961, we're going to miss you!

Andy McGregor An overly sleek socialite is haunted by visions of a beautiful scantily clad vixen, which becomes an intriguing mystery when he finds a doll with her likeness. The colluding shop-owner reveals the girl from his dreams actually exists and encourages him to deliver it in person to her, which he does. When he arrives, she admits to being a voodoo witch. Obviously he has been under her voodoo spell all along, but joins her voodoo cult without question anyway. It turns out the shopkeeper is the voodoo priest and the basement of the shop is their temple. Later the hapless cad has growing doubts which lead him to be tested. Rather than comply, he rejects the religion and the witch-girl and in trying to escape, destroys the temple.This rather nonsensical fair thankfully drives on at a decent pace and is a bearable length. Robert Alda does not give an amazing performance, but plays his character much as his own personality. The witch-girl is a smouldering beauty even if her performance is wooden. Neil Hamilton is unconvincing and gives a rather dry delivery rather than the campy style his role deserved. Somehow this movie manages to be charming enough to not completely suck, but very nearly does!

Michael O'Keefe William J.Hole Jr. directs this very low-budget satanic flick from Crown International Pictures. Rick Turner(Robert Alda)is haunted nightly by visions of a seductive beautiful woman dancing. Rick is drawn to a doll shop where he finds a doll that resembles the woman trying to seduce him. He later returns to the shop with his fiancée Donna(Arianda Welter)to get the doll. On the shelf is a doll that looks exactly like Donna. The shop owner Frank Lamont(Neil Hamilton)gives Rick the one doll that he is anxious to deliver. Lamont will not let the couple leave with the doll resembling Donna; because it is actually a voodoo doll that he uses to cause her crippling pain. Rick makes his delivery to Bianca Milan(Linda Christian), the dancing seductress in his dreams. She will have her way with Rick and convinces him to join a coven of devil worshipers that actually wants his fiancée Donna as a human sacrifice. Rounding out the cast: Gertrude Astor, Julie Scott and Gere Craft.

David Traversa I'm truly dismay when I read raving reviews about garbage like this. I don't have in my English vocabulary any word low enough to qualify this product.Starting with that awful musical tune that opens the picture that seems to last forever, the very basic typeface used for the titles until the first "vision" of Alda in bed when he sees a woman dancing alone under a moonlight effect dressed in a flowing deshabillé... and apparently floating in midair someplace in Alda's room, I said "until" because that was the scene where I switched off this... movie.My patience ended there.I don't have the will power or the time to watch this kind of junk.