Creature with the Blue Hand (German: Die blaue Hand) is a West German horror film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski and Ilse Steppat.
[1] It is based on the 1925 novel The Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace and was part of a long-running series of adaptations made by Rialto Film.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg.
[2] The film was bought by New World Pictures and issued as a double feature in the United States with Beast of the Yellow Night.
[3] The film was later re-edited in 1987 with new gore inserts by producer Sam Sherman and released to home video as The Bloody Dead.