La mano che nutre la morte (1974)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Directors:

Yilmaz Duru
Sergio Garrone

Writer:

Sergio Garrone (writer)

Release Date:

29 April 1974 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Doll | Skeleton | Mad Doctor | Blood Splatter

Cast

Klaus Kinski	...	Prof. Nijinski
Katia Christine	...	Masha / Tanja Nijinski
Marzia Damon	...	Katja Olenov
Carmen Silva
Stella Calderoni	...	Sonia
Romano De Gironcoli
Alessandro Perrella	...	Feodor
Carla Mancini	...	(credit only)
Luigi Bevilacqua
Bruno Arié
Osiride Pevarello	...	Inn-Keeper (as Osiride Peverello)
Amedeo Timpani
Pasquale Toscano
Ayhan Isik	...	Alex
Erol Tas	...	Prof. Nijinski's henchman

Also Known As:

Ölümün nefesi (Turkey: Turkish title)
The Hand That Feeds the Dead (USA)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

Italy | Turkey

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Cinequipe

Trivia:

Often confused with Le amanti del mostro (1974), which was released only a month after this film. Both films are directed by Sergio Garrone and feature the same cast - except Carmen Silva who appears only in this film. The two films also share some of the same footage but they *are* entirely different films with different plots.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Le amanti del mostro (1974)

Kinski As Dr. Jeckyl Running in the Woods

Kinski is a 19th century doctor who starts dabbling in RE-ANIMATION when he finds an old laboratory in his basement. Things go terribly wrong in the lab and he screws up his own good/evil balance, or something. This was about as good as a good Hammer film, but a lot weirder. There's one pretty gory shot of Klaus yanking the guts out of a dead puppy! He spends a lot of time running wild through the woods. See it if you have to.