demonoid and messenger of death start some 300 year ago in a mexican mine where some ancient demon or other possesses the left hand of a woman and she be chain to a wall by robed religious fanatic and her left hand be cut off with an axe the disembodied hand then try to scuttle away but a guy stab it and place it into a silver hand shape casket . cut to the present in a town call guanajato in mexico where jennifer baines ( samantha eggar ) have just arrive to join her husband mark ( roy jenson ) who have recently bring the mine and intend to reopen it and once at the mine jennifer cause a wall to collapse and reveal a mummified body and woman eh . the local worker start bricking themselves and refuse to enter the mine due to ancient legend about the devil hand and soon after while in the mine together on theyre own mark and jennifer stumble across a room with the glove shape casket in it and mark decides to take it . later that night mark open the casket and find nothing but dust and however a hand reform itself from the dust and possess mark . the ancient leave hand possess demon be free and go about do what it do best and possess people hand with the ultimate aim of possess jennifer for some reason i be not sure of . this mexican american co production be co write and produce and direct by alfredo zacarias and be one zany and crazy and at time gob smack exploitation film that provide terrific entertainment for it slight run time of 78 minute . i feel demonoid and messenger of death be an ambassador for the much neglect and malign and under appreciate sub genre of possessed killer hand film and i mean there be literally 100 of film feature evil alien and indestructible homicidal maniac and giant bug and ghost and dinosaur and genetic mutate monster and zombie and scientific experiment go bad but how many possess killer hand film can you name . not many and that my friend must be address . sorry and i get carry away there . anyway and the script by zacarias and david lee fein and f. amos powell really be a crazy and bizarre a it sound and at least it show a lot of imagination and it clearly have the intention of try to fill every last second of screen time with some bizarre situation . overall demonoid and messenger of death doesn not make that much sense and you can not take it seriously but that all part of the fun . i absolutely love the scene in which a policeman walk into a doctor surgery and demand at gunpoint that the doctor cut his hand off or he will kill him and this part be play 100 % straight and the ridiculousness doesn not end there . there be numerous fly severed hand and satanic ritual and dodgy gambler and disbelieve priest and mummy and re animate corps and ancient demon and gore and nudity and bad mexican actor and a car chase and a woman who think walk into a pitch black cavernous mine 100 of year old wearing high heel be a good idea and a pace which never let up . i have to admit i really like this goofy film and it be just so entertaining for all the wrong reason . director zacarias create some pretty decent moment and the sequence where the hand reform and be inter cut with footage of real mummified body be particularly effective . there be plenty of dumb and downright silly moment in it but god damn i have fun with it . it have that cheap and sleazy early 80 horror film vibe to it and there some decent gore a well . there be and of course and lot of severed hand but also some decent sever method like one guy who put his hand under the wheel of a move train and ouch . there be surgical removal and one be sever by repeatedly shut it in a car door and the hand preferred method of murder be to attach itself to someone face and then squeeze it until the person die . technically the film be ok and it a little rough around the edge but i doubt the filmmaker have much money to work with . the special effect vary from really bad to just bad . i think the music sound very familiar and i be right because most of it be steal from the incredible melting man ( 1977 ) . the acting be ok and you have to consider the fact that it very hard to convincingly fight your own hand while it still attach to your arm and isn not it . demonoid and messenger of death be a pretty unique film and it certainly something a bit different and overall i be throughly entertain by it . i can not really recommend it a most sane people would probably hate it but if your a fan of obscure exploitation then this be an absolute must . mr zacarias and the film make world need more people like you and i mean they just do not and would not or simply can not make em like this anymore which be not a good thing in my book .