Idle Hands is getting a long-overdue special edition Blu-ray this week from Shout Factory splattered with bonus features like the inside of an airduct after hauling a Halloween dance attendee through an industrial fan. A comedy horror film from 1999 drenched in slapstick gore, punk rock cameos, and ironic teenage nihilism, Idle Hands was a movie I was absolutely obsessed with as a 16 year-old who stayed up until 2 in the morning every day of the week hammering out three-chord trash fires on a shitty Fender practice guitar and watching grimy horror flicks on an …
Idle Hands, the 1999 horror comedy from director Rodman Flender, is one of the most underrated movies of all time, and I say that without hyperbole. Anton (Devon Sawa) is such a shiftless loser that a demon possesses his right hand and uses it to murder the absolute shit out of several people, including his best friends Pnub (Elden Hensen) and Mick (Seth Green). But Mick and Pnub come back as zombies, because they’re literally too lazy to go to heaven. The three cut off Anton’s hand, but it continues undaunted on its killing spree, which includes peeling …