Jaws made you scared of the water, Friday the 13th made you scared of the woods and Demonoid: Messenger of Death makes you scared of, uh, left hands. Roy Jenson and Samantha Eggar explore a Mexican mine where devil worshipers used to cut off peoples’ left hands in occult rituals. What do they find there? An ancient severed hand, of course! It’s just a pile of dust in a hand-shaped urn, but through that old black magic it reforms into a killer hand that likes to jump on people and possess them. The only way to get rid of the Satanic Mexican hand ghost is the chop off your own left hand. It’s not easy though because the hand will do anything to stop you, including make you set yourself on fire. You’ve got to hand it to director Alfredo Zacarías. There were two killer hand movies in 1981 (the other is Oliver Stone’s The Hand) and this is the best because it’s the most trashy. It’s got creepy rotted mummified corpses, Russ Meyer favorite Haji in a small role and a few seasoned character-actors slumming it for a paycheck. In my world, that deserves a hand