The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the livingThe hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the livingThe hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living
Alan Hale Jr.
- Sheriff Townsend
- (as Alan Hale)
Tristram Coffin
- Security Chief Meidel
- (as Tristam Coffin)
Stan Jones
- Funeral Director
- (as G. Stanley Jones)
Ashley Cowan
- Capt. Mel Lockhart
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBurt Reynolds screen-tested twice for the role as teen character Paul Lawrence, but reportedly performed so woodenly that he was not chosen.
- GoofsWhen Paul sits up and looks at the dead Mrs. Hotchkiss in the back of the ambulance and screams, Mrs. Hotchkiss begins to close her eyes after being dead for quite some time now. Her eyes blink too.
- Quotes
Capt. Mel Lockhart: [from the monitor] Something... makes my arm move... makes me do things! Kill! Kill!
- Alternate versionsSirry Steffen did a nude scene for foreign markets.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: The Crawling Hand (2018)
- SoundtracksThe Bird's the Word
Sung by The Rivingtons
Featured review
One of my favorite really awful movies!
Now here's what cheap sci-fi teen horror is all about, and it's from AIP, of course! Astronaut is killed in space while possessed by an evil alien force, but somehow his severed arm makes its way to earth, still hosting the alien, and begins a killing spree. If that's not good enough, you've got troubled teens, two proto-X-Files scientists tracking the hand, a sublimely weird malt-shop assault scene, and the crawling arm's demise comes via a pack of stray cats! Classic trash from start to finish!
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- angelynx
- Dec 30, 1998
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Don't Cry Wolf
- Filming locations
- 2215 W 24th St, Jefferson Square, Los Angeles, California, USA(murder victim's house)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $100,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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