Taglines: Where does evil live, the heart, the mind or the flesh?
Body Parts movie storyline. Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a psychologist working with convicted killers at a prison. While driving to work, Bill gets in a horrific car accident and loses an arm. At the hospital, Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) convinces Bill’s wife to sign off on an experimental transplant surgery. Bill is wheeled into the operating room where he notes several armed police in hospital scrubs. While Bill’s surgery takes place, Dr. Webb removes the unknown donor’s head from his body on a nearby operating table.
Bill awakens from the surgery and begins to adjust to his new arm. After he is released from the hospital, he resumes his work and things seem to be back to normal. However, Bill starts seeing visions of horrible acts of murder (as if he is committing them) and occasionally loses control of his new arm. At the prison, Ray, a convict whom Bill is interviewing, tells Bill that the tattoo on his new arm is only given to inmates on death row. Bill has a police friend scan his new fingerprints and is shocked to discover the arm came from convicted serial killer Charley Fletcher (John Walsh), who had murdered 20 people.
Bill confronts Dr. Webb, who dismisses his concerns. Unconvinced, he follows her and finds the identities of two other patients: Mark Draper (Peter Murnik) and Remo Lacey (Brad Dourif) who received the killer’s legs and other arm, respectively. Bill visits Remo, who was a struggling artist before the transplant but now is making a small fortune selling paintings he made with his new arm. Noting Remo’s paintings depict the same visions he had, Bill tells him that he is painting what the killer saw. Remo, however, only cares about his newfound success and dismisses Bill’s warnings. Bill meets Mark and tries to warn him but Mark is just happy to be able to walk again and advises Bill to be grateful and move on.
Body Parts is a 1991 horror thriller film directed by Eric Red and released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Zakes Mokae, Brad Dourif, John Walsh, Paul Ben-Victor, Nathaniel Moreau, Peter Murnik and Lindsay Merrithew.
Body Parts (1991)
Directed by: Eric Red
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Zakes Mokae, Brad Dourif, John Walsh, Paul Ben-Victor, Nathaniel Moreau, Peter Murnik, Lindsay Merrithew
Screenplay by: Eric Red, Norman Snider
Production Design by: Bill Brodie
Cinematography by: Theo van de Sande
Film Editing by: Anthony Redman
Costume Design by: Linda Kemp
Set Decoration by: Steve Shewchuk
Art Direction by: Alicia Keywan
Music by: Loek Dikker
MPAA Rating: R for violence and gore, language and a scene of sensuality.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: August 2, 1991
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