Streaming Sleepers: John Francis McCullagh’s DEAD HAND Scratches The Indie Action Itch
Dead Hand is now available on Amazon Prime for rental or purchase. 5 min. read Texas-based actor and filmmaker John Francis McCullagh first landed on my radar in 2018 during the good old days of The Hit List. His reel showed promise, and needless to say, his potency as a feature film creative has finally surfaced with Dead Hand, an independently-produced action comedy he and his team partially crowdfunded back in 2021. McCullagh writes and directs his feature debut in which he also stars alongside Brandon Yates, Josh Weinstein, and Angel Rodriguez. The story kicks off with a brutal interrogation by an elusive terrorist named Matthias Frost (Rodriguez), an ex-soldier-turned-zealot eyeing the location of a mysterious and deadly device. What the device exactly is, with exception to Matthias, is mostly anyone’s guess. That especially goes for Eoghan Flynn (McCullagh), a secret agent whose mission it is to nab the device […]
