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#11,576 All-time worldwide
#116 1981 releases

Movie profile

The Hand

1981 · 104 min · Orion Pictures

Horror Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $566,736
Budget $6.5M
Gross minus budget -$5.9M
ROI 0.09x

Domestic gross

$272,033

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$294,703

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$116,974

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Hand ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,576 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1981 releases #116 Release-year chart position of 138 titles Ranked against movies released in 1981. Studio / company #75 Orion Pictures of 80 titles Position inside the mapped Orion Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,126 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,571 Crystal 1993 · $570,000 #11,574 The Young Hero of Shaolin 1984 · $567,107 #11,575 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! 1978 · $567,000 #11,577 Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 1998 · $565,592 #11,578 Steel Dawn 1987 · $562,187 #11,579 I, 'The Heifer' 1985 · $562,029

Quick answer

How did The Hand (1981) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Hand (1981) earned a reported $566.7K worldwide against a reported $6.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.09x. In this database it currently ranks #11,576 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #116 among 1981 releases.

Worldwide gross
$566,736
Budget
$6,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,933,264
ROI
0.09x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 24, 1981
Production
Orion Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyOrion Pictures Release year chart1981 box office Genre chartHorror Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1981, The Hand is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Thriller title from Orion Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $566,736, reported production budget is $6.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.9M, ROI is 0.09x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,576 all-time in the current chart set and #116 among 1981 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.