Body Parts

Plot synopsis:
Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a psychologist working with convicted killers at a prison. While driving to work, Bill gets in a horrific car accident and loses an arm. At the hospital, Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) convinces Bill’s wife to sign off on an experimental transplant surgery. Bill is wheeled into the operating room where he notes several armed police in hospital scrubs. While Bill's surgery takes place, Dr. Webb removes the unknown donor’s head from his body on a nearby operating table.
Bill awakens from the surgery and begins to adjust to his new arm. After he is released from the hospital, he resumes his work and things seem to be back to normal. However, Bill starts seeing visions of horrible acts of murder (as if he is committing them) and occasionally loses control of his new arm. At the prison, Ray, a convict whom Bill is interviewing, tells Bill that the tattoo on his new arm is only given to inmates on death row. Bill has a police friend scan his new fingerprints and is shocked to discover the arm came from convicted serial killer Charley Fletcher (John Walsh), who had murdered 20 people.
Bill confronts Dr. Webb, who dismisses his concerns. Unconvinced, he follows her and finds the identities of two other patients: Mark Draper (Peter Murnik) and Remo Lacey (Brad Dourif) who received the killer’s legs and other arm, respectively. Bill visits Remo, who was a struggling artist before the transplant but now is making a small fortune selling paintings he made with his new arm. Noting Remo’s paintings depict the same visions he had, Bill tells him that he is painting what the killer saw. Remo, however, only cares about his newfound success and dismisses Bill’s warnings. Bill meets Mark and tries to warn him but Mark is just happy to be able to walk again and advises Bill to be grateful and move on.
Bill becomes increasingly agitated and violent. He involuntarily hits his son and almost strangles his wife to death while sleeping. For the safety of his family, Bill stays in hotel. He demands that Dr. Webb removes his arm but she refuses, stating that the problems he is experiencing are insignificant compared to her experiment's success. Bill meets up with the Remo and Mark at a bar. A drunk man recognizes Bill from news about the surgery, and demands to see his arm. Bill snaps and a bar fight breaks out where Bill single-handedly takes out several men and almost kills one before being stopped.
As Mark returns home, his legs suddenly stop functioning. Scared, Mark calls Bill, who hears Mark yell and struggle with someone. Bill goes to Mark’s apartment and finds him dead, with both legs ripped out and missing. Bill calls the police and implores the lead detective to check on Remo. However, they are too late as Charley — who is still alive, having his head transplanted onto a new body — rips Remo's arm off and throws him out a window.
As Bill and the detective stop at a traffic light, Charley pulls up in a car beside them and handcuffs his wrist to Bill's. Charley speeds away, and the detective desperately tries to keep up, lest Bill’s arm gets ripped off. Bill eventually uses the detective's gun to destroy the handcuff just before they hit a divider that splits the road in two. As the detective leaves the car and opens fire on Charley, Bill drives away to pursue the killer. Charley brings his old limbs back to Dr. Webb.
Armed with a gun from the detective’s car, Bill enters the hospital. He finds an operating room where he sees the gruesome sight of Charley’s torso and limbs in a glass case, wiggling as if having a mind of their own. Dr. Webb appears and says she is ready to take the arm back, and Charley knocks Bill unconscious. Bill wakes up strapped to an operating table. As Dr. Webb approaches him with a circular saw, he breaks his restraints, knocks her out and wrestles with Charley for his shotgun. Right before Charley can pull the trigger, Bill is able to snap his neck. He destroys the glass case and shoots at Charley’s body parts. Charley, still alive, aims at Bill with the detective's gun, but accidentally kills Dr. Webb. Bill shoots Charley in the head, killing him for good.
Bill sits with his wife in a park. In his journal, he notes that he hasn’t had any other problems with the arm after Charley's death, and he is still thankful to both Dr. Webb and Charley for the new arm.

Tags: cult, murder, violence

Review:
The film is enjoyable and is good fun.The main character loses his arm in an accident, and gets a replacement from a dubious source leading to all sorts of macabre events, and the play includes having a mad scientist/doctor.What I like about this picture is that even though the story spirals into absurdity and is preposterous, all the lead actors take themselves and the story very seriously making the movie even more hilarious.
Criminal psychologist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) survived from an horrible car accident but he loses his arm.
Then after meeting two people (Brad Dourif and Peter Murnik), who got spear body parts from Charley.
Bill has a feeling or two that Dr. Webb is not what she seems to be and he feels, there's something out there is coming for him.Directed by Eric Red (Bad Moon, Cohen and Tate, Undertow) made an intriguing horror film with some effective moments of suspense and thrills.
When I first heard about this movie, I read about the story: Guys gets a killers body-parts, and now "someone" wants them back.
Then I studied the cast: the main character was played by Jeff Fahey (who I knew from "The Lawnmower Man" and "Silverado"), and then I saw Brad Dourif (from the "Child's Play"-movies amongst other spooky flicks, like "Alien 4" and "Nightwatch" ).
I thought that it would be watchable only because they were in it, but it actually had a quite interesting story, which raised a couple of questions, such as the mysterious nature of body-part-transplanting, and how bad it could go!I think there was some spectacular stunts in this movie, and many original ideas (especially when Fahey gets in a driving vehicle!), and it never really stops being exciting!
Sadly this movie was no different, but it was saved by some very neat performances.The story is simply a re-hash of a tried and tested idea - some guy (in this case a criminal psychologist) loses a limb, and a replacement is sewn on - subsequently it comes to light that the limb is of a dead psychopath.
Jeff Fahey started to look more and more demonic as the movie went on, and his hair changed too.
I had to laugh because certain scenes reminded me of Robinson Crusoe on Mars, and then in other parts i actually wondered what was going on, like maybe there was a cohesive, tightly woven plot.
I kind of thought the painter who received the other arm was a classic nut case in a way that was so over the top as to be humorous.I actually felt that his family relationships were kind of honest and touching, even though they saw their dad unraveling.
An outstanding lead actor, JEFF FAHEY (The Lawnmower Man), a great movie maker, ERIC RED, and a good book, "CHOICE CUTS" from BOILEAU-NARCEJAC.
The plot--involving a man receiving a new arm after losing his in a terrible auto accident and discovering that it belonged to a serial killer that happens to want it back--sounds ludicrous, yet somehow Red lets the story unfold seamlessly and realistically and you find yourself believing every detail.
And finally, Body Parts succeeds in the extraordinary-visuals category not by throwing a bunch of flashy special effects in your face, but by remarkably original scenes fantastically constructed from ordinary things that become almost mesmerizing.
Jeff Fahey, he of "Lawnmower Man" fame, stars as Bill Chrushank, a shrink who tragically loses his arm in a brutal car wreck.
Jeff Fahey, who looks like a poor man's Ray Liotta with better skin and not as much acting ability, plays a nurturing criminal psychologist who spends his days dealing with crazy criminals who say f*ck a lot.
Yeah this movie is "bad", but if that is a good thing to you like it is to me, it's worth seeing.
Man (Jeff Fahey) involved in a freak car accident loses an arm.
A doctor (Lindsay Duncan) has figured out a way to transplant whole body parts and the surgery is almost a total success.
To add problem onto problem, the convict is out on the streets taking all the body parts people received from him and Fahey looks like he is next victim.Fast paced, exciting, scary, and handsome looking horror flick is entertaining as long as you don't pay close scrutiny to the premise and script.
In the movie "Body Parts", a man loses his right arm when a tanker truck rear ends him, ejecting him through the windshield.
This makes him want to learn where the arm came from, along with the fact that he is having nightmares, and some violent impulses.In the novel this was very loosely based on, the main character is not a person who's gotten a graft.
The new parts look better than their old ones, while in the film the arm looks like it was taken from an old corpse, even though it wasn't.
"Body Parts" is a reasonably good thriller with a handful of memorable suspense-laden moments and gooey Grand Guignol effects; particularly near the end.
When family man and criminology shrink Bill Crushank gets involved in a dramatic car accident, his wife Karen has very little time to decide whether or not Dr. Agatha Webb is allowed to try her groundbreaking method of transplanting a donor arm on Bill.
Eric Red's direction is surefooted enough and, although Jeff Fahey definitely isn't bad in the lead role, the show is obviously stolen by an overacting Brad Dourif.
"Body Parts" is a cool horror flick about a guy who loses an arm in a car accident and has it replaced with one belonging to a serial killer.
Jeff Fahey, perhaps best known for the most out-there Stephen King adaptation, "Lawnmower Man", plays the protagonist, looking like a spooky John Stamos.
Basically an updated Hands of Orlac, where a killers body parts are used in a transplant and begin taking him over, since he wants to get put back together, there isn't much originality.
Psychologist Bill (Jeff Fahey) interviews a convicted killer and goes home to his wife Karen (Kim Delaney) discussing his wants and desires.
Jeff Fahey carries "Body Parts" all the way to the inane finale.
After losing his arm in a car accident, a psychologist finds that his replacement came from a serial killer and is aiming to continue its owner's violent tendencies which forces him to extreme measures to protect his loved ones and stop the blood-soaked rampage.This turned out to be quite an enjoyable effort.
One of the better parts to this is the amount of care given to the storyline showing his dealing with the new arm, from the exercise and family life to the different lifestyle choices slowly creeping into his personality.
Because "Body parts" is more like an action movie with a little bit of horror thrown in.
But there's more fistfights, gunfights and car chases then actual horror.Of course, knowing Brad Dourif plays a part in this movie, you know there's going to be bloodshed.
Although much of "Body Parts" spirals way out of control sacrificing any smidge of believability, the film is never dull, and has definite entertainment value.
This was a really good gruesome thriller.Story is self was not all that great, A Guy loses his arm and He get's Killer Arm, which he can not control's at times.I like the fact movie flowed really well, there were not boring at all, there were some very gruesome deaths scenes, near the end of the movie, which I did not expect all at all.I really enjoyed the whole movie, I liked how the story ended.The acting from everyone in cast, well some of cast were really good, there could have been better.I don't know if was the acting or not, his wife really annoyed me at times.Overall I give this movie 7 out of 10 really Good movie..
When psychologist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) loses his right arm in a car accident, the arm of an executed death row inmate is grafted on in its place.
'Body Parts' is based on yet another French novel, 'Choice Cuts' ('Et Mon Tout Est Un Homme') (1965) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, which apparently won an award (go figure).Jeff Fahey, in the lead role, has never been a particularly satisfying or charismatic screen presence.
'Body Parts' also gets the Dubious Achievement Award for Gender Equality in Film in that the mad doctor in this flick is a woman.
This is the question posed by psychologist Jeff Fahey after he receives a limb transplant from a convict that they have vivisected to replace his own missing arm.
At this point, I'm thinking, hey neat movie, somebody we have never seen before will show up and tell Fahey that he's going to kill him and take the arm (I'm figuring the limb collection to basically just be metaphoric).
The bar fight scene looks like it belongs in one of the Bionic Showdown movies as the limbs seem to impart some sort of super-fighting techniques to their new owners.
Happy family man (Jeff Fahey) is in a horrible car wreck and loses an arm.
He soon finds out his arm belonged to a vicious executed murderer--and has a mind of its own!I saw this film in a theatre back in 1991.
Maybe, then, it is because 'Body Parts' was directed by newcomer Eric Red, who should have been well-known for having previously written 'The Hitcher', 'Near Dark' and 'Blue Steel', that it didn't get due notice.
The cast, led by Jeff Fahey and including favourites Brad Dourif (Childs Play), Kim Delaney (CSI Miami) and Zakes Mokae (Serpent & The Rainbow) act their asses off and each bring something unique to this story which pokes at psychologist Carl Jung's beliefs in the possibility that consciousness may not just be relegated to the human brain but may also reside in the blood.Suspension of disbelief is actually not such a big deal because it's so enjoyable to watch and since it's all done very convincingly, 'Body Parts' sets out to be a psychological serial killer thriller with a much more macabre-and also slightly paranormal-twist and it succeeds.Notably, as this is also from a time of practicality before CGI became a thing, the prosthetic special effects makeup are so sick at times that you can feel every bone crunching, flesh ripping moment.Brilliant!.
Jeff Lahey gets a transplanted arm from a serial killer...Then, he begins, (of course) to have "problems" with his new arm...I can't see how this is getting such a low rating.
I thought it was a little silly, but not nearly poor enough to receive a rating of three or four.Body Parts had potential, especially as a thriller/splatter film, but perhaps it needed a better director.
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I think maybe James Cameron (director of Terminator and Aliens) would have been a good choice.Jeff Fahey's career sure went nowhere, didn't it?
I recommend this film to all other bad movie lovers, Jeff Fahey fans, and horror fan completists.
Jeff Fahey is involved in a terrible car accident and loses one of his arms.
A medical procedure attaches the arm of a recently executed murderer to Fahey and all seems well at first, but we all know better than that.
Naturally Fahey learns the terrible truth about his new limb and realizes that the deceased monster may indeed be resurrected by having all his parts re-connected (other individuals received the other arm and legs).
It is always great to see him, even in small parts in movies like this.
I found it really cool to see him and Jeff Fahey acting together, as they are two actors I really like, and they usually play intense, occasionally mad dudes.
Know a lot of films about evil body parts, do you?
Because I could count them on one hand(!) There's not enough body-part themed horror movies out there...
I thought it was an okay, average horror movie for quite a while, but my interest had a boost when it came to the scene where Bill discovers that someone has been grafted new legs.(I know that that one is still an impossibility) The film's main antagonist is the dastardly Doctor Agatha Webb.
It turns out that the evil mantis doctor of death Dr Webb's master plan has been, in layman's terms, to amputate the arms, legs, and head(?)of a serial killer?!, transplant them to "lucky" recipients, while still keeping the original torso alive, to later restore, whether the current owners like it or not, the parts back to the original body.
The somewhat ludicrous idea of a transplant patient being controlled by their new limb dates back as far as F.W. Murnau's 1924 expressionist classic The Hands of Orlac, in which a pianist who loses his hands in an accident is given transplants from the body of a recently executed murderer with disastrous results.In Body Parts, Eric Red's 1991 take on this macabre tale, several people receive replacement limbs from convicted killer Charley Fletcher, but it is prison psychologist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) who first begins to suspect that there is something not quite right when his new right arm exhibits uncharacteristic behaviour, hitting his son and throttling his wife (Kim Delaney) while she sleeps.Bill is understandably shocked when he eventually discovers the identity of his arm's original owner, and demands that his surgeon Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) remove the troublesome appendage, but she refuses, unwilling to undo her groundbreaking work.
Meanwhile, Fletcher, whose head has been attached to a new body by the clearly deranged Webb, is running around savagely tearing his transplanted extremities from their new owners.The concept might be extremely well worn, providing the basis for more than a handful of horrors over the years, but Eric Red manages to bring new life to the 'evil transplanted limb' idea by acknowledging its sheer silliness and simply running with it.
It takes a while to get into the swing of things, but once Fletcher starts to reclaim his lost body parts, the fun really begins, with Red serving up some great gore and outlandish plot developments.The film's most preposterous moment comes as Bill is sitting in a police car: Fletcher drives alongside, slaps handcuffs on Bill's wrist and tries to pull his arm off by quickly accelerating away.
The only problem, as he soon discovers, is that the arm is possessed by a force he cannot control.....This used to be a firm favourite of mine when I was a teen, here in the UK, it was a straight to video release, and not many people saw it, so it vanished almost without a trace.Seeing it almost twenty years later, it's aged pretty badly, and although it's a schlocky, hokey horror, it does take the main character too seriously, as supporting characters are a lot more entertaining, and make it the B-movie it should be.It's not Fahey's fault, he's a great actor, and can do nuts no problem, but he just spends the majority of the movie maundering around, cutting himself shaving, or shouting at his kids.The final third makes up for the dull first two, by going bonkers, and upping the gore factor, which, for 1991, is pretty graphic.So it's one of those movies that isn't as good as you'd like to remember, but still watchable fluff..
But this is not that : Kim plays only the supportive wife in the background and all the movie resolves around the husband : as he meets with other transplanted and there is violence, blood, and indeed gore, i wasn't not at all motivated to see how this stupid story would evolve.
Hands of Orlac once again gets a treatment, this time by writer/director Eric Red, starring Jeff Fahey (back when he still had his matinée idol looks) as a professor of psychology and often visits criminals in prison to study what makes them commit evil.
A breakthrough arm surgery through a "grafting procedure" sees that Fahey will not be without the missing limb...it comes with a price.
Two other men also received body parts from the killer in surgeries by Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan), a painter named Remo Lacey (Brad Dourif) and a young man named Mark Draper (Peter Murnik) who had both legs applied after spending time in a wheelchair without them.
Reaching out to the others (Mark's legs cause him to nearly wreck into ongoing traffic), he finds that both men are suitably pleased with their new body parts (Remo's painting reflects what the killer sees; he claims the images just "come from the air" and that he's making far more money since he got his new arm than before when he was creating work for the walls of hotel rooms).The film left me a bit unsatisfied because I think Red has something here that eventually goes off the rails at the end when someone returns to take back the grafted body parts "given away".
The car crash that caused Fahey to need the arm is horrific, the crime scene with the missing legs is gruesome, and Dourif's character is totally enthusiastic about what the arm has done for his life (for the better), not discouraged by Fahey's misery and forewarning about what the body parts might have wrong with them.
Criminal examiner Bill Chrushank (Fahey) has a terrible car accident that leaves him alive but his right arm has been severed.
Experimental scientist Dr. Webb (Duncan) convinces Bill's wife Karen (Delaney) to let her perform an operation that would give her someone else's right arm.
The person that got Charlie's head and mind is now slowly going around and taking his original body parts back so no one is safe.
Eric Red directs this horror film with an eye on the psychological terror lead character Bill is going through.
What Red does very well is mix the emotional side of what is happening to his characters and the extreme violence and gore that is present with Fletcher recollecting his body parts.