• Genres: Comedy, Horror
• Tagline: The touching story of a boy and his right hand.
• Plot Outline Lazy Anton’s right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.
• Plot Synopsis: Seventeen year old slacker Anton Tobias wakes up one Halloween morning to discover that both of his parents have been turned into two headless Halloween decorations. After speaking to his equally irresponsible friends, Mick and Pnub, he discovers that his right hand has a blood-thirsty mind of its own and is hell-bent on wreaking havoc whether he likes it or not.
• Plot Keywords: Teen Movie | Dagger | Hanged Girl | Knitting | Halloween | Microwave Oven | Hand | Murder | Teen | Splatter | Teenkill | Telephone Sex
• Actors: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox
• Directors: Rodman Flender
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 31, 1999
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• ASIN: 0767836332
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,289 in DVD

Editorial Reviews

Despite all the pot-smoking in Idle Hands, the message here seems to be that too many bong hits will take you on a one-way trip to the devil’s playground. That’s what happens to Anton (Devon Sawa), a wasted teen who’s so perpetually zonked on weed that he doesn’t notice his parents have been slaughtered by an evil force that then possesses Anton’s right hand, taking on a wildly homicidal life of its own after Anton chops it off with a butcher knife. The first victims are Anton’s pals Mick (teen-movie stalwart Seth Green), who gets a beer bottle embedded in his skull, and Pnub (Elden Henson), whose head is lopped off by a rotary saw blade, and later reattached with a barbecue fork and duct tape. (Did we mention that Mick and Pnub turn into undead jokesters? It’s that kind of movie.) This unoriginal idea is little more than an excuse for gross-out effects and easy one-liners, and then Vivica A. Fox appears as the demon-buster who knows how to kill the hand once and for all. It’s fun to a point, and certain to be a popular Halloween hit with its intended teenage audience, but you can’t help wishing this movie had tried harder to be something more than a collection of crude and gory gags. –Jeff Shannon