Creature with the Blue Hand: Suspense, Gothic Horror and Klaus Kinski!

Above- Italian release poster for Creature with the Blue Hand. Notice Big Ben plays heavily in the art. One more reference to London and the UK. Photo by IMDB

Manhunts, howling dogs, swirling mist & fog, secret passages and a dreaded figure with a claw for a hand with murder and insanity. Horror to the nth degree! All in Spooktacular Color & HD….

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Die Blaue Hand (1967) aka Creature with the Blue Hand release in US 1970-

Above-Dave (Klaus Kinski) is about to have a close call with the Blue Hand. Photo by Krimi Film/www.krimifilm.blogspot.com

One of the all-time great German Krimi (crime) films. Based on an 1925 Edgar Wallace novel and steeped deep in gothic atmosphere. Large massive estates, an asylum for the criminally insane, man hunts, red herrings, cloaked-hooded figures and lots of disappearing suspects who eventually turn up out of breath…. permanently. Theme -Martin Böttcher — Die Blaue Hand: “Creature with the Blue Hand” (1967) Theme — YouTube

The story opens with at the end of trial with the verdict sentencing Dave to admitted to an asylum for the insane. With Dave Emerson shouting over and over…