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Idle Hands (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 50 Fresh: 8  Rotten:42 Average Rating: 3.4/10
 
Consensus: Idle Hands has neither the humor or the scares to satisfy audiences.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

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 demon-possessed hand. With the help of some fellow young drug abusers, some sharp objects (used to... 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]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, Vivica A. Fox, Jessica Alba

Director: Rodman Flender
Screenwriter: Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 8, 2001

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes - 1. With Introducution and Commentary by Rodman Flender
  • Audio Commentary - 1. Rodman Flender - Director
  • 2. Seth Green - Star
  • 3. Cast Members
  • Featurette - Making Of
  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailers

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Biographies - Cast
  • Storyboards

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It's an infalliby funny gambit...

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12/02/02
Kim Newman
Sight and Sound
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3/5

Ganha pontos pelo perverso senso de humor, mas acaba soando demais como uma cópia de "Evil Dead 2" para merecer uma recomendação.

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04/08/08
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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3/5

Were you expecting a teen remake of The Hands of Orlac? Don't hold your breath.

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12/06/05
Ron Wells
Film Threat
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Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end.

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07/21/05
Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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D+

It jumps from one path to the next without any sense of continuity.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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4/5

Stupid, silly fun with a decent amount of gore and heavy dose of teen humor

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06/19/04
Andreas Samuelson
Slasherpool
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C

All of these people can make better movies than this, and most of them have.

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03/10/04
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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1/4

Is it a spoof, or is it just stupid ... or is it a stupid spoof?

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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly
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0.5/4

The attempts to extract comedy from this grim raw material are leaden, blood-soaked disasters.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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1.5/4

Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.

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03/22/02
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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1/4

When it's over, you may feel like cutting off your own hand for having paid good money at the ticket counter.

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02/27/01
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
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A script filled with blunt dialogue on sex, drugs and violence that's neither funny nor particularly original.

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01/01/00
E! Online
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0/4

If an original thought found its way into this horror-comedy it would die of loneliness.

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01/01/00
Bob Bloom
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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1/4

When a movie sets out to be awful and achieves its goal, does that make it a success?

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01/01/00
Bob Graham
San Francisco Chronicle
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Funnier than it is scary, and not very funny at that.

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01/01/00
Brian McTavish
Kansas City Star
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C

Performances are adequate, but mostly uninspired.

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01/01/00
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
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The most overtly ideological moment comes when pot-smoking proves the boys' best weapon against evil.

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01/01/00
Cynthia Fuchs
Philadelphia City Paper
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As midnight movies go, this one is pretty mediocre, and most of its weakness derives from a certain lack of comic inspiration.

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01/01/00
David Luty
Film Journal International
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A heavy-handed disappointment saturated in tired movie blood.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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This film smacks of poor judgment and bad taste, particularly in the wake of the Littleton, Colo., killings.

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01/01/00
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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