Idle hands a postcolumbine test of the movie market. Idle hands isnt priority viewing for horror fans but its a very entertaining little gem, nevertheless. Watch idle hands trailer 1999 seth green video dailymotion trailerfilms on dailymotion. The devil will find work for idle hands to do, so what happens when he goes on the prowl for a partner in crime and ends up with an utterly clueless 17yearold slacker. Idle hands 1999 jessica alba my book scene clip youtube. Question about idle hands that always bothered me spoilers movies. When molly ties tanyas whip around a bar to let herself down from the air duct, you can see as she slides down that the whip is knotted at intervals.
The main plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, anton tobias portrayed by sawa, whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree. This week on the podcast we cover the often imitated never duplicated mess that is idle hands. Cast and crew were smart enough to put the whole horror genre into perspective a bit and therefore this feels a lot more like a lightheaded spoof than a sickening gore flick. What is the name of this song from the movie idle hands. Pictures are property of movie companies owner of the respective movies. Family movies is awesome as the possessed hand once it spoiler. Terms of activation by activating, you agree that you want to enable cloud technology to access your xfinity stream subscription on additional supported devices like computers and tablets, as well as the tv connected to your settop dvr via comcasts network. Anton devon sawa, the 17yearold victim and hero of idle hands, is so. The main plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, anton tobias portrayed by. The producers and the director decided to shoot a different ending because the original ending was very different in its style of humour and horror and they thought it didnt fit into the film. Watch idle hands theatrical trailer keith keith adams on dailymotion. All i knew about it was that it had quite a few elements of teen comedy and that ive only seen the tail end of it.
Find out where idle hands 1999 is streaming, if idle hands 1999 is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. If you like idle hands you are looking for humorous, scary and semi serious movies about with teenager, halloween, supernatural, teenage life, best friends, ghost and youth themes of comedy, fantasy and horror genre shot in usa. In the ending scene, jessica albas character is in her underwear making out with devon sawas character shot with her back to the camera. Lets talk about a movie called idle hands, in which a teenager who has no ambition, smokes too much dope and watches beaucoup mtv, cringes in horror as his right hand becomes possessed and. The dvd contains the original ending, set in the schools gym pool. The release date for this movie was april 30th, 1999. Jessica alba, katie wright, seth green, elden henson. Question about idle hands thats always bothered me.
Ending spoiler for idle hands 1999, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. The offspring plays at a high school dance during this scene in the 1999 horrorcomedy film idle hands, starring seth green, devon sawa, jessica alba and elden henson. But a few moments later, when the severed hand draws the whip back up, you can see that there are no knots in it. They just might in idle hands, when the forces of good and evil face. Horror fans in the late 90s were experiencing a trend of selfreferential movies that served as somewhat satirical parodies of the subgenres they belonged to, while 1999s idle hands instead. He cant control his left hand and many horrible events start happening. Idle hands 1999 jessica alba my book scene clip psycho drew killer. Usually, when you watch a movie that sends up the horror genre, the movie sacrifices the scares in favor of the laughs. Cnn idle hands a postcolumbine test of the movie market. I still love her body and i love her in idle hands. During the episode we break down the hilarious trailer, talk about the failures of idle hands at the box office and jd tries to guess how the critics will react to this beautiful mess. As mentioned in the other comments, this movie is a awful lot better than it would first seem.
It is interesting that the workprint contains the alternate ending or rather, the original ending which is also featured in the bonus material of various dvd releases. It is played during the scene where anton devon sawa is in bed with molly jessica alba. It is interesting that the workprint contains the alternate ending. Its still a rather brainless teen slasher flick, with the usual array of 2d characters the goofy friends, gorgeous love interest, aggressive hunk etc and situations school halloween dance, but the great dialogue and great visual effects elevate it above the majority of other movies in the teen. Idle hands is a 1999 horrorcomedy film directed by rodman flender, written by terri hughes and ron milbauer, and starring devon sawa, seth green, and jessica alba with elden henson and vivica a. Idle hands is a 1999 american dark comedy film directed by rodman flender, written by terri hughes and ron milbauer, and starring devon sawa, seth green, elden henson, jessica alba, and vivica a. Sorry about the quality, but i think thats the best thats available for the workprint. Its funny that the original ending took place with her tied to a diving board. His dream life lie down every day in bed watching tv. But the absolute best part of the movie is the ending. Six feet unders trending on twitter, so watched the last few minutes of the finale again.
Yeah, and the message at the end of the movie there are a couple of messages in. The interesting way she delivered it that showed thought in approaching elaine with something that brought the good side of their past together forward. The man killed all his friends with his hands out of. This week on teaser trailer we discuss the horrorcomedy film, idle hands. Plus the movies release was delayed because of columbine. The idle hands is a horror comedy that will delight you. She was 16 in this movie, or so i remember from when it was new. The obvious work and care poppy made in composing the letter. Idle thoughts was funny, thought provoking and entertaining. Molly climbs down using a rope, but tanya is too afraid to go, so she stalls. You can hear the sounds of liquid hitting the bushes, but you see nothing coming out of his mouth there is enough light in the film to determine this.
Idle hands samples other teen horror movies like a video dj with a. Meaning when theres nothing to do, and too much freetime, a person can wind up doing bad things. Thankfully they reshot another ending with her dress getting ripped off. Idle hands ar en amerikansk skrackkomedi fran 1999.
Six feet unders trending on twitter, so watched the last. Idle hands trailer 1999 seth green video dailymotion. On the podcast we discuss our first devon sawa movie. At the theater, a gamefaqs message board topic titled question about idle hands thats always bothered me spoilers. The movie is about a teen whos hand is possessed by the devil. They are kissing on the bed and he is trying to control his hand. We also discuss all of our favorite scenes and pinpoint where we feel like idle hands went off the track. Jessica albas ass idle hands 1999 discussion moviechat. The main plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, anton tobias sawa, whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree, even after being cut off from his arm. But, in idle hands, the movie makers remembered to keep all the creepy touches and startling frights that make a horror movie when they mixed in all the humor. The workprint of idle hands bares much resemblance to the final cut of the film. Only if its the theatrical ending, the alternate ending is a bad ending. Phil daniels goes back to school in 4 idle hands dvd clip. The movie is about a teen whos hand is possessed by the.
After sin city 1 and into the blue i lost interest. During the scene right after anton runs into the scarecrows in his house only to find out they are his deceased mom and dad, you see him run out to his porch and begin throwing up into his bushes. I think they should have kept the ending this way, but its still pretty awesome as it is. The offspring, dexter getting killed in the movie idle hands. The title is a literal take on the saying idle hands are the devils playground, which derives from the bible verse, proverbs 16. This film takes the phrase idle hands are the devils playthings literally. They end up at a giant fan, and molly uses tanyas shoe to stop the fan from moving. Anton at the start of the movie is seen even by his parents as a useless slacker who just smokes all day.