Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on June 21, 2015

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) is a surprisingly effective chiller from director Robert Florey and screenwriter Curt Siodmak, who also penned horror classics like The Wolf Man (1941) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). For genre fans, the chief draw of the picture is Peter Lorre as an...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on June 21, 2015

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) is a surprisingly effective chiller from director Robert Florey and screenwriter Curt Siodmak, who also penned horror classics like The Wolf Man (1941) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). For genre fans, the chief draw of the picture is Peter Lorre as an...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on June 21, 2015

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) is a surprisingly effective chiller from director Robert Florey and screenwriter Curt Siodmak, who also penned horror classics like The Wolf Man (1941) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). For genre fans, the chief draw of the picture is Peter Lorre as an...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on October 24, 2013

The Beast With Five Fingers has a premise which refuses to die in popular culture.  If you’ve watched the Addams Family, or the television show, Goosebumps, than you are well-versed in the horrors of disembodied hands.  This 1940s B-movie fails to engage the readers with the plot, but when thi   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on October 11, 2013

In The Beast with Five Fingers, locals in an Italian village become alarmed when a one-handed pianist (Victor Fancen) dies under mysterious circumstances. Suspicions flare when the reading of his recent last will and testament reveal he’s left his estate to his nurse Julie (Andrea King), and   read more