Tag: Maurice Renard

• The New Man Transference of consciousness Transplants

  

  Mad Love

  Peter Lorre shines as a mad surgeon who grafts the hands of an executed killer onto the stumps of an injured piano player. Based on Maurice Renard’s novel The Hands of Orlac, the body horror of the book takes a backseat to Lorre’s deranged sexual fantasies about the pianist’s beautiful…

  August 11, 2019
• The New Man Transference of consciousness Transplants

  

  The Hands of Orlac

  (9/10) The Austrian 1924 film that inspired cult classics like Mad Love, The Beast with Five Fingers and Body Parts is a tour de force of psychological Expressionist terror. Horror icon Conrad Veidt plays a pianist who is driven mad after receiving a hand transplant from a hanged murderer.  The…

  June 13, 2018