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Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.
Vince Martorano
- Bill Hale
- (as Vincent Martorano)
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Did you know
- TriviaMad Man Herman (Marvin Kaplan) makes a joke about "Disney's Beauty and Obese" a good 18 years before the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (1991) was released.
- GoofsThe main characters are trapped in a cave for many days. No light source they could have brought in with them would last that long, but the last scene shot in the cave is brightly lit. The cave should be completely dark, and the amputation of one character's arm should not have happened, because the surgeon character would never have attempted a limb amputation in complete darkness.
- Quotes
Jeff: If there's anything we can do...
Doctor's wife: Can you get his arm back?
- Alternate versionsA heavily edited, 89-minute version was released in 1985 on video by "The Congress Video Group" in which all the gore has been completely and haphazardly edited out. The only exceptions are the two scenes in the beginning involving when the cadaver arm was being sawed off, although the sawing noises were removed, and when Paul Carr opens the package containing it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Maria's B-Movie Mayhem: Severed Arm/So Sad About Gloria (2011)
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Doesn't quite cut it (3 - 10)
A group of men exploring an old mine get trapped in a cave in, and after weeks of starvation decide to draw straws, and have the unlucky loser serve up an arm for lunch. After much scuffle the unlucky winner is soon liberated of the offending appendage, and Murphy's law being what it is they are rescued mere seconds afterwards. Fearing for their reputations everyone except obviously the victim agrees to lie and say that they had to cut his arm off because it was crushed in the collapse, but being quite perturbed because he can no longer clap and can only row boats in circles he vows revenge. Things start off a few years later when the man whom first suggested the idea receives a severed arm gift wrapped in the mail, and with few exceptions that's where this movie's creativity ends.
Not particularly bad but overall pretty slow and boring, although there is a little bit of a haunting surprise at the end it's not enough to make it worth while. Be weary of the severely edited 83 minute version missing all the gore, its like the editors took a hacksaw to the film stock and made an already extremely weak movie worse.
3 out of 10, strictly blood and guts, although it doesn't do that all that well either.
Not particularly bad but overall pretty slow and boring, although there is a little bit of a haunting surprise at the end it's not enough to make it worth while. Be weary of the severely edited 83 minute version missing all the gore, its like the editors took a hacksaw to the film stock and made an already extremely weak movie worse.
3 out of 10, strictly blood and guts, although it doesn't do that all that well either.
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- Feb 18, 2007
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- Amputiert - Der Henker der Apokalypse
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- Reseda, California, USA(post office)
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