🎬 FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: Hands of a Stranger (1962)
Because Nothing Ruins Your Piano Career Like Murderous Transplant Hands 🎹🖐️🔪 It’s Friday night, folks—which means it’s time to crack open a beverage, dim the lights, and scream at your TV, “WHY WOULD YOU TRANSPLANT A STRANGER’S HANDS ONTO A CONCERT PIANIST?!” Because tonight’s film is Hands of a Stranger (1962), and yes, it’s just as bonkers as it sounds. This delightfully deranged public domain gem starts off with a tragic accident: a concert pianist loses his precious hands (cue sad music and a single tear down the cheek 😢). But don’t worry! Science—and by science, we mean horror-movie logic—saves the day by transplanting a new pair of hands onto him. But SURPRISE: those hands belonged to a murderer. 🫢 Now, our formerly refined, high-society ivory-tickler is going full rage mode, because these jazz-hands are suddenly more into homicide than harmonies. Can you blame him, though? The man wanted Rachmaninoff, not rampage. This film is: 10% medical drama 🩺 30% piano conce...