I heard Quentin Tarantino recommended this on a podcast as one of the better entries in the "crawling hand" sub genra of horror movies. Samantha Eggers travels to Mexico where her husband Roy Jensen has invested most of his money in a 300 year old silver mine, but is having trouble getting his superstitious local workers to go very far inside.
Jensen and Eggers go down deep to prove to the workers that it's safe, they find what looks like a hidden temple inside and take a hand shapped silver container out with them. They were not able to open the container but that night the cursed hand inside gets out, it attacks Roy and possesses him and then the old hand crumbles into dust.
The next day Jensen goes to the mine, hurrangs most of the workers to go inside, then detonates explosives killing and trapping miners inside, he then flees the country. Eggers eventually catches up with him in Las Vegas where a seemingly magical betting streak has attracted a lot of attention. Jensen soon ends up dead, but the spirit of the evil hand proceeds to jump bodies in an effort to get back to and punish Samantha, as she was one of the people who released it from the cave.
Jensen's body is shipped home to California and buried. Eggers tries to convince a skeptical old priest played by Stuart Whitman (who principly worked in Westerns and low budget horror fare) of the reality of the cursed hand. It takes a bit, but Whitman becomes convinced and it's up to him and Samantha to defeat the hand for good. And they do... or do they?
Odd but fun, both tight and all over the place at 92 minutes. **
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