29. PHANTOM LIMB: Severed or not is optional but this extension of will has to have a different energy pushing it.

Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a psychologist working with convicted killers who loses his arm while driving to work. Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) gets his wife (Kim Delaney) to sign off on an experimental transplant surgery that gives him a new arm. One of his patients tells him that the tattoo could only be from someone on death row and it turns out that he has the arm of Charley Fletcher, who killed twenty people, and now it wants to kill more as it takes over Bill.

The others who got body parts from the murderer, Mark Draper (Peter Murnik) and Remo Lacey (Brad Dourif) aren’t upset about where their parts came from. It’s enabled Draper to be a better artist as he can see the same visions and Lacey is just happy to walk again.

They should have been worried. Fletcher (John Walsh) is still alive and has his head on a new body. He’s hunting down everyone with his body parts and is killing them. Why did the doctor go along with this plan?

The car crash is pretty brutal. That’s because Fahey’s stunt double got launched fifty feet when the safety harness didn’t work. They didn’t die and the real accident is in the movie.

Body Parts was directed by Eric Red, who wrote The Hitcher and Near Dark. He also co-wrote the movie with Norman Snider from a story by Patricia Herskovic and Joyce Taylor. It was based on Choice Cuts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, who were the screenwriters of Eyes Without a Face.