---------------------------- Based on a novel by medical-horror writer Maurice Renard, the film paints a portrait of the slow mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt). After a catastrophic train accident, his hands are amputated and replaced with those of an executed murderer. When Orlac’s father is murdered by the dead hands, he is drawn into a spiral of madness. The Hands of Orlac is a delightfully twisted thriller that blends Gothic horror with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. The film’s focus on hands borders on fetishistic, making it perhaps the closest we get to Cronenberg-style body horror from the 1920s! TG Alexandre O. Phillipe gives a longer introduction before the film, where he talks about hands and their role in horror.