The Severed Arm (1973)

Pretty Good

Brilliant and touching

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

One of those dark and forgotten slashers from 70's that fans never stop look for. From a somewhat illogical and implausible premise, the film will catching as the story unfolds. This is facilitated by the atmosphere of mystery surrounding the characters and the dark ambient that envelops the entire film. The deaths, without being spectacular and bloody, are quite effective and interpretations, even without moving from discrete, are above average for this type of films. Actors appear in the movie as Paul Carr (Sisters of Death), Deborah Walley (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini) or Marvin Kaplan (Snakes). The director Thomas S. Alderman (Coed Dorm) unfortunately did not return to direct more films. Although I know there are opinions against, for me it is a jewel of I declare unconditional follower.

"The Severed Arm" has a very low score on IMDb and the reviews are generally unfavorable. Oddly, I actually liked the film and thought it very unique and worth seeing. I could be wrong, but I was surprised as the title sure makes it sound like a terrible film.The first part of the film is told as a flashback. A group of six guys go exploring in a creaky old cave. Unfortunately, one of the guys is a stupid idiot and he causes a cave-in...and they are trapped for two weeks. Not surprisingly, they are starving when one of them insists that they only way to survive is to eat PART of one of them. He insists that they draw lots and the loser is eaten...in part. Not all of them are in agreement but he pushes them to do this. After ripping off the poor loser's arm, a rescue party arrives--and the folks all agree to lie about what happened and say that the man with the missing are was injured and they HAD to do surgery on him!Five years pass. Now bad things start happening to the five who perpetrated this arm-carnage. Some are dismembered...some are killed. But there is a special punishment for the ring leader!I thought the film very original, quite clever and set a wonderful and tense mood. Is it a great film? Nah...but for what it is, it's surprisingly watchable. Also, I was glad that the who arm ripping off angle was not overly gross and gratuitous!

Five men are trapped in a cave in . As time passes and there is no signs of rescue one of the men says they should draw lots and eat the arm of one of the. After the arm is removed rescue arrives. A few Years later the guy who suggested the turn to cannibalism gets an arm in the mail and then he and the others begin to be stalked.Its okay as the low budget 1970's drive in fare goes, but suffers from the type of pacing that might have worked playing to a drive in full of people doing more than watching the movie, but when seen on a TV causes on to fall asleep.Its an okay trip to the drive in but those actually expecting quality should look elsewhere

This is possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. Boring, stupid, terribly written, acted, directed, you name it, you can be sure that it was bad. I really would like back the hour and a half of my life i spent watching this. there are many things i would rather do than watch this movie again. Like cut my toe nails. and i must have seen the horribly censored version too. Which if it is possible made the movie worse. i felt like i was watching a bad suspense horror flick only reserved for Sunday afternoons. Which i probably was in the long run. I guess i should have known from the title. I probably should have. Shame on me i guess.