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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

Keywords

Severed, disembodied, dismembered.

List of films

• 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)

See

List of films about possessed or sentient inanimate objects