Body Parts (1991)

27 Oct 2023

Rating: 3/5

I’ve heard of muscle memory, but this is ridiculous!

Bill (TV’s Jeff Fahey) is a criminal psychologist. Leaving a consultation, he gets in a car wreck. Bill loses an arm, but doctors perform an experimental surgery to graft a new arm onto him. Before he goes under, he sees several surgeons with shotguns and others dismembering a body.

In a class he teaches, he explores the motivations of what could make a seemingly functional human turn violent. During the class, he keeps having visions of blood and strangulation.

His arm has a tattoo, “Striker” — a tattoo only given to death row inmates. Running his prints through AFID, he learns his new arm belonged to a convicted serial killer.

You have this guy's arm. You don't have his personality.

Remo (Brad Dourif) got the other arm and now paints disturbing images — the same images Bill sees in his head. Mark has the legs and can dunk a basketball but can’t control his car.

The three band together, even though Bill seems to be the only one suffering. That is until Mark returns home, and someone is waiting to take his legs.

From a filmmaking perspective, this is a hit-or-miss movie. It starts strong but sags severely in the middle and almost makes up for it within the last ten minutes.

Still, this absurd pulp hits a few pleasure centers for me.

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