FilmComedy Horror Demonic & Possession Supernatural

Idle Hands1999

Name: Idle Hands
Genre: Horror, Comedy Horror, Demonic & Possession, Supernatural
Released: 1999
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox

“The touching story of a boy and his right hand.”

Directed by Rodman Flender

IMDb 6.3RT Critics 18%Metacritic 31TMDB 6.2

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Trailer

Year

1999

Runtime

92 min

Box office

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$4,152,230

Domestic

$4,152,230

🏆 4 nominations total

Synopsis

Anton is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly, the beautiful girl who lives next door. However, it turns out that the old cliché about idle hands being the devil's playground has a kernel of truth after all.

The Fear Score take

This is horror with its tongue firmly in its cheek — gleefully gory, deliberately absurd, and never truly interested in frightening you. The dread here is played for laughs, splattered in stage blood and stoner logic. Your pulse rises from delighted disgust rather than genuine terror, a gross-out carnival more likely to make you grin than flinch.