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Hand of Death
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A particular shot commonly used in action flicks, gangster movies, horror movies, and murder mysteries. All that is shown is An Insert of a hand or a pair of hands, and possibly the murder weapon itself. This gives a sense of building tension without revealing the murderer's identity. Sinister black gloves are optional. Often, the character is walking slowly — one might say... ominously — with a gun in his hand, held down by his side. He may well be wearing a trenchcoat. Common in slasher films. Even more common in Giallo. Not to be confused with the Touch of Death or Finger Poke of Doom. Or the 70s kung-fu film. |
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Until the closing scenes of The Initiation, the killer only appears as a gloved hand holding a weapon. | |
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: A gloved hand is shown drawing a knife and advancing on Osman Efendi in "Death Do Us Part". A spray of blood informs the viewer of his fate. | |
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Used for all the murders in the slasher parody Student Bodies. | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Lucky Numbers", the kidnapper is only shown as a gloved hand until the reveal of his identity. | |
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During Cropsy's murders in The Burning, often the only part of him shown is his hands holding the gardening shears. | |
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A frequent occurrence in the BBC Miss Marple adaptations. | |
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Subverted in the opening scene of Charade, where a gun pointed at the heroine by a black gloved hand turns out to be a child's water pistol. | |
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Frequently used in the first season of Bron|Broen, with many shots of the killer's gloved hands driving a car or committing acts of violence. The later seasons used it much less. | |
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In The Cat and the Canary, a hand twice emerges from a hidden panel, first to throttle Mr. Crosby and then later to steal the necklace from around Annabelle's throat. | |
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Used in Iron Man 3: Tony leans over, trying to reach Pepper, and the villain's hand bursts up out of the floor and tears the arc reactor right out of his suit. | |
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The Usual Suspects does a fair amount of this. | |
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For most of Circus of Fear, the killer is only seen as a gloved hand. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "A Man Alone", the victim is relaxing in the holosuite when a black-gauntleted hand plunges a knife into his back. The investigating officer Constable Odo becomes the prime suspect for the crime, as he had a grudge against the victim. However, this trope is not to conceal the fact that Odo is the killer, but that the 'victim' had cloned himself and then killed his clone to fake his death and frame Odo for it. | |
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Modernized in Red Dragon gloved in latex. Traces of talcum powder imply the murderer removed the gloves at the crime scene. Sure enough, a partial print is found. | |
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A Shot in the Dark does this with several botched attempts at killing Clouseau. | |
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Gloved in proper classic black in The Radioland Murders before some (but not all) of the titular hits. Appropriate since this was a homage to the radio era. | |
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Used in Psycho's infamous shower scene. Anthony Perkins wasn't on the set while it was filmed; he had an engagement elsewhere. | |
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The Graveyard Book'': "There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife." | |
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Subverted masterfully in The Sting. The audience knows that an assassin named "Salino" has been assigned to kill Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford). From that point on, there are numerous shots of a pair of hands in purple gloves doing various things. In the final shot they are loading a revolver. It turns out that they aren't Salino's hands at all. They are the hands of the bodyguard that Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) hired to keep an eye on Hooker. He shoots Salino. | |
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Frontier Circus: This technique is used in "Calamity Circus" to conceal the identity of the saboteur. | |
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Jonathan Creek: How the killer is portrayed in "The Clue of Savant's Thumb": first stalking Joey and later toppling a statue off the roof. | |
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Clue is full of these. Everyone seems to wear black gloves at one point or another. | |
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Also used frequently when showing the set-up to the murder in Whodunnit? (UK). | |
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Doctor Who: The hand of the robot operator in "The Sontaran Experiment" is handled this way, to save his reveal for a cliffhanger. "The Brain of Morbius" introduces Solon with a shot of his hands as they cover the sculpture he's making of Morbius's face. This how the killer is depicted in the first episode of "Black Orchid", allowing for a dramatic reveal of his face in the second. Heavily used in "The Five Doctors" for the person responsible for bringing everyone to the Death Zone, until their identity is revealed. |
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The Ripper is only seen as a pair of boots and a hand holding a knife until their true identity is revealed in Knife for the Ladies. | |
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For much of Madhouse (1974), the murderer is shown as a pair of hands in black leather gloves. | |
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Parodied by Police Squad!. We repeatedly see the killer's shoes as he walks, and we see his gloves and business suit sleeves as he sets up the bombs. When Drebin finally confronts the bomber, it turns out to be the suspect's wife, still wearing the glove, sleeve and shoes... and otherwise dressed like a housewife. | |
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Used frequently in Midsomer Murders. | |
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Used in Strange Days, since we see the murders through a recording of the killer's perspective. | |
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