The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) is a horror film directed by Robert Florey and with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on a short story by W. F. Harvey first published in the New Decameron. The original music score was composed by Max Steiner. The film was marketed with the tagline "A sensation of screaming suspense!"

This would be Lorre's last film with Warner Brothers. (In his 1982 autobiography My Last Sigh, Surrealist director Luis Buñuel wrote that while at Warner Brothers dubbing films into Spanish 1942-1946, he submitted a story about a murderous disembodied hand, then moved to Mexico and re-started his career as director.) The much-played piano piece is a transcription (for left hand) by composer Johannes Brahms, with some further editing by Max Steiner, of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's second partita for solo violin.

The film was remade in 1981 by director Oliver Stone as The Hand.

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand. Written by Daniel Bubbeo