A Fistful Of Fingers
- 1994 film
1994 film which spoofs spaghetti westerns. An extremely early example of director Edgar Wright's unimitable style. Stars Edgar Wright, Sebastian Smith, Mark Sheffield, Graham Low, Oli van der Vijver and more.
Press clippings
As low-budget, semi-amateur films go... A Fistful of Fingers is on the low-end. It's certainly not as accomplished as Desperado in terms of visual storytelling, it doesn't have enough narrative content to fill its eighty minutes (like Clerks) and it appears just a little bit cheaper than The Evil Dead.
The film's best when it's playing with traditional genre conventions and the entrance and few moments in town are the film's best, not just in terms of humor, but also in Wright's direction.
The beginning of the film, from the cutout animated opening credits, to the various Leone references, is genuinely witty. The second half is a bore.
The Stop Button, 26th July 2007The Director Interviews - Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright's film career began when, straight out of college, he wrote and directed his ultra-low budget debut feature A Fistful of Fingers (1994), an affectionate comedic homage to spaghetti westerns. The film played a few festivals, and was enough of a success to get Wright work directing sitcoms and sketch shows, where he worked with many of the best British comic performers around.
Nick Dawson, Filmmaker Magazine, 20th April 2007