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starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Gene Seymour - Newsday
starstarstar Frank Gabrenya - Columbus Dispatch
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Tom Maurstad - Dallas Morning News
starstar Brian McTavish - News & Observer
star Susan Stark - Detroit News
star Sean Means - Film.com
star Monica Eng - Chicago Tribune
star Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
star Jay Carr - Boston Globe
star James Berardinelli - ReelViews
star Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
star Desson Howe - Washington Post
  Jeff Vice - Deseret News

Samples other teen horror movies like a video DJ with a tape deck, exhibiting high spirits and a crazed comic energy

- Roger Ebert

The level of humor here is too stupid to be considered lowbrow. It’s also too sickening to be called merely gruesome

- Jeff Vice

Idle Hands

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A high school slacker's hand becomes possessed and he's unable to stop it from causing murder and mayhem. Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Ratliff, Jessica Alba, Christopher Hart, Vivica A. Fox, Jack Noseworthy, Katie Wright, Sean Whalen, Nicholas Sadler, Fred Willard. Director: Rodman Flender. (1999, R)

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