The Severed Arm (1973)

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Blistering performances.

The list of people who should be shot, drawn and quartered, then shot again, include the screenwriter(s), the director, the producers, the actors, and I'll even throw in the caterer. Didn't anybody READ the screenplay? The premise is not bad--trapped in a cave-in, the guys eventually decide to eat each other, piecemeal (no pun intended). Right after the cave-in, our lead says, "We have no food and damn little water." Maybe two minutes of screen time later, all our guys are sporting bushy beards (tempus fugit), and one of the other actors says, "They should have found us TWO WEEKS ago." Excuse me? You guys were trapped without food or water (or internet access) for MORE THAN TWO WEEKS(!!!) and the only signs we see of it are you look like refugees from a Gillette commercial? No one seems to have lost weight, no one seems to be DEAD FROM STARVATION. And THEN, they all have the energy to pounce upon the victim and sever his arm? Please. When you start with a gigantic flaw of logic and reality so patently imbecilic, you cannot take anything that follows with the slightest punctillio of even suspended disbelief.

6 men go into a mine which caves in trapping them. They have no food . After several days they decide to draw straws. Whoever gets the short straw is going to get a body part cut off to feed the everyone. One man loses and they cut his arm off. Right after severing his arm they hear people coming to rescue them. So they devise a story to lie and say his arm was lost in the cave-in. And that he's been delirious for a week, claiming they took his arm for food. Years later one by one the survivors gets brutally attacked or killed. I Really like this movie a lot. Sure the actings below average but the story was good enough to hold my attention

This is possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. Boring, stupid, terribly written, acted, directed, you name it, you can be sure that it was bad. I really would like back the hour and a half of my life i spent watching this. there are many things i would rather do than watch this movie again. Like cut my toe nails. and i must have seen the horribly censored version too. Which if it is possible made the movie worse. i felt like i was watching a bad suspense horror flick only reserved for Sunday afternoons. Which i probably was in the long run. I guess i should have known from the title. I probably should have. Shame on me i guess.

This movie is quite obviously a low-budget film. It does, however, manage to be watchable in spite of its lowly budget. There are some scenes that are reasonably well done and the overall film wasn't AS bad as I expected. Having said that, this is no masterpiece. It certainly deserves a place in the annals of bad movie-making. Don't anyone think for a moment that this is somehow anything other than a cheap, cheesy suspense/horror. It is better than some, however. And it could have been worse. I gave it a "3" out of "10."