The Hand That Feeds the Dead

The Hand That Feeds the Dead (1974)

La mano che nutre la morte

Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of Rassimov; he married Tanja, and he's trying to restore her lost beauty with a series of skin transplants. However, to reach his goal, professor Nijinski needs beautiful young victims for his transplant experiments.

Date of release
1974-04-29
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Horror
Director
Sergio Garrone

Casting

Interesting facts

The Hand That Feeds the Dead is a 1974 Gothic horror film directed by Sergio Garrone and starring Klaus Kinski. In this film, a 19th-century doctor finds a laboratory in his basement and starts dabbling in reanimation.

Production

After directing the war film La colomba non deve volare, director Sergio Garrone began work on a horror film. After contacting the Italian distributor named Sabatini, he was introduced to the Rome-based Turkish producer Şakir V. Sözen. Sözen had previously produced Frank Agrama's crime film L'amico del padrino and offered the location of a huge villa and proposed casting the Turkish actor Ayhan Işık who had co-starred in L'amico del padrino.

Garrone described the general idea for the film as a variation on a "Frankenstein story" The film was shot in Istanbul and Elios Studios in Rome. The special effects for the surgical scenes in the film were provided by Carlo Rambaldi.

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