The secret weapon of ‘The Addams Family’ is a severed hand
nypost.comNothing in “The Addams Family” is as creepy and kooky or as mysterious and spooky as Thing, the hand. He’s an autonomous limb with a mind of his own, but no body or speaking voice — just five fingers and a palm.But, before the 1991 movie based on Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons, poor Thing was trapped in an enclosure and unable to leave.
Allowing him to finally escape on the big screen was a lightbulb moment for the film’s director Barry Sonnenfeld.“One of the first things I wanted to do was to get Thing out of the box,” Sonnenfeld, 70, told The Post of his feature directing debut.And get him out, he did.
In the family movie and its 1993 sequel, “Addams Family Values,” Thing runs and jumps, opens doors, plays chess and taps out Morse code with a spoon.
Today, it’s hard to imagine the iconic character — who lives with the macabre Addamses: Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley — so confined like he was on the 1960s TV series.
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