The Severed Arm

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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.

Man I hate movies like this----movies that don't have one single solitary interesting thing about them.This dog is basically unwatchable unless you're just determined to tough it out so you can come in here and slam it.So it was with me. 6 guys end up trapped in a cave or old mine for reasons unclear to me.They went under ground and started banging around with hammers to collect 'samples' of something for some reason and they cause a cave in and get stuck underground.After two weeks of no food and basically no water they look surprisingly fit and lively.They've still got lights and one guy has a radio and the fat guy still looks as pudgy as ever.But nonetheless the 6 guys draw straws to see who will donate a body part to feed the group.The loser is held down and his arm is hacked off as today's special.Soon after the group hears the sounds of a rescue crew digging them out. D'OH! Five years later bad stuff starts happening to the 5 and they figure out the one armed guy is seeking his revenge. Don't let my dazzling synopsis fool you....this film is a badly acted,darkly lit,special effects missing piece of crap from beginning to end.Nothing about this film will stick with you once you finish it.It's as a worthless piece of junk as I've ever watched. The only scary thing about this picture is a couple of the reviews in here that painted this mess as some sort of dark grand revenge poetic justice movie .Oh brother. Those reviews must have been written by some family members of the hacks who made or 'starred' in this complete waste of time. Don't bother at all with this dog.It's bad.... and not the bad kind that is fun to watch either.

"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!

Four coal miners got trapped in the tunnel, and there was no sign of rescue. All of them hungry, they picked a straw to pick one of them as a victim for food (in a PG rated way). One of them lost a hand, (not enough meat in a hand!), but the rescue arrived the next day. The victim entered an insane asylum. The ending sucks, and photography sucks, the whole film plain sucks. I could see why this is Deborah Whalley's last film to date. Someone should have severed the script! Not recommended.

This is an absolutely worthless Horror film, that's extremely boring, the only bright spot in the film is the ending, as it was quite cool. All the characters are very dull, and the story isn't all that interesting, plus I'm quite certain I got the censored version, as their is hardly any gore in sight, other then the severed arm we see a few time's throughout the movie. It's very poorly made and written, and I thought the performances were especially bad as well, plus It's extremely hard to pay attention at times, because it's painfully dull, as not much happens. It consists a lot of people walking around, lots of dialog, people driving, and creating no interesting characters, plus as I said while the ending was very good, it's nowhere near enough to save this piece of junk. I got this in a DVD Horror set called Back From The Grave, along with a bunch of other horror films, plus the music score at the beginning was actually pretty creepy, as I was thinking this might not be to bad, sadly I was wrong. This is an absolutely worthless Horror film, that's extremely boring, the only bright spot in the film, is the ending, as it was quite cool, however it's not enough Avoid it!. The Direction is very bad. Thomas S. Alderman does a very bad job here, with shoddy camera work, and keeping the film at an incredibly dull pace. The Acting is absolutely atrocious, as none of them are really worth commenting on, in my opinion. Overall, avoid it please. (half star) out of 5

6 men go into a mine which caves in trapping them. They have no food . After several days they decide to draw straws. Whoever gets the short straw is going to get a body part cut off to feed the everyone. One man loses and they cut his arm off. Right after severing his arm they hear people coming to rescue them. So they devise a story to lie and say his arm was lost in the cave-in. And that he's been delirious for a week, claiming they took his arm for food. Years later one by one the survivors gets brutally attacked or killed. I Really like this movie a lot. Sure the actings below average but the story was good enough to hold my attention

Over all, if you take into account the year it was made, this movie wasn't too bad. I have seen movies much newer that were much, much worse. I mean, it's not nasty gory, or heart-in-your-throat scary, but it has it's moments. There's plotting, a bit of blood, and some hack-and-slash. And as avid a horror movie watcher I am, I STILL didn't see the 'brother' angle coming. The only part I didn't like, was the ending. I mean, they got the last guy, he's locked in a room with a knife. For poetic justice, his options are either cut off his own arm or starve to death. And THAT'S where they end it!! Blasted cliffhangers!! I hate it when movies do that.. It's just...wrong!!

The list of people who should be shot, drawn and quartered, then shot again, include the screenwriter(s), the director, the producers, the actors, and I'll even throw in the caterer. Didn't anybody READ the screenplay? The premise is not bad--trapped in a cave-in, the guys eventually decide to eat each other, piecemeal (no pun intended). Right after the cave-in, our lead says, "We have no food and damn little water." Maybe two minutes of screen time later, all our guys are sporting bushy beards (tempus fugit), and one of the other actors says, "They should have found us TWO WEEKS ago." Excuse me? You guys were trapped without food or water (or internet access) for MORE THAN TWO WEEKS(!!!) and the only signs we see of it are you look like refugees from a Gillette commercial? No one seems to have lost weight, no one seems to be DEAD FROM STARVATION. And THEN, they all have the energy to pounce upon the victim and sever his arm? Please. When you start with a gigantic flaw of logic and reality so patently imbecilic, you cannot take anything that follows with the slightest punctillio of even suspended disbelief.