Independent body parts
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| - | *''[[L'Ultrameuble]]'' [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=3B17E64A2514CC95ED23552190349CDD here]. It would make an ideal illustration for my page on independent body parts in fiction. | + | *''[[L'Ultrameuble]]'' [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=3B17E64A2514CC95ED23552190349CDD here]. |
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- Dismembered limbs, a severed head, a hand cut off at the wrist, as in a fairy tale of Wilhelm Hauff's, feet which dance by themselves, as in the book by Albrecht Schaeffer which I mentioned above--all these have something peculiarly uncanny about them, especially when, as in the last instance, they prove capable of independent activity in addition. --The Uncanny (1919) - Sigmund Freud
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Severed, disembodied, dismembered.
In the visual arts
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In film
- Arms
- Body Parts (1991)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964) - While not physically independent, Dr. Strangelove's right arm has a mind of its own, and actually attempts to strangle him.
- Brains
- Brain Damage (1988)
- The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
- Donovan's Brain (1953)
- Hubert's Brain (2001)
- The Man with Two Brains (1983)
- They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)
- Breasts
- Attack of the Hungry Hungry Nipples (1997)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
- Eyes
- The Killer Eye (1999)
- The Trollenberg Terror (1958) a.k.a. "The Crawling Eye"
- Hands
- The Addams Family (1991) "Thing", family pet hand
- The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
- The Crawling Hand (1963)
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
- Demonoid (1981)
- Evil Dead 2 (1987)
- Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
- The Hand (1981) directed by Oliver Stone
- Idle Hands (1999)
- The Hands of Orlac (1961)
- Mad Love (1935) a.k.a. The Hands of Orlac
- La Main du diable (The Devil's Hand) (1942)
- Quicksilver Highway(The Body politic) (1997)
- Thumb Wars (1999)
- Waxwork (1988)
- Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) a.k.a. A Nightmare on Elm Street 7
- Heads
- The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
- The Doom Generation (1995)
- 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- Evil Dead 2 (1987)
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Re-Animator (1985)
- The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
- Teeth
- Quicksilver Highway (1997)-Chattery Teeth
- Tongues
- La Lengua asesina (The Killer Tongue) (1996)
