Knowing Bob Zemeckis and how detail oriented he is my guess would be that this was intentional subversion.

@AVARY Unrelated question for you - If you screened a double feature of The Hand and Demon Seed, which would you run first?

@bitfan2011 Gosh. Tough question. I'd probably start with The Hand and finish with Demon Seed. But then, I'd probably program The Hand with Demonoid if I could.

@AVARY Nice, thanks for recommendation. I've been watching late 70s/early 80s gems with an old friend. We sync the time and chat on the phone as we watch. The Hand and Demon Seed were both a bit revelatory for us. One-off R-rated psychodrama & sci-fi can be gold

@AVARY I didn't know about Donald Cammell until watching Demon Seed. Wow, there's a lot to unpack! Even his death is surreal. This docu is supposed to be good: youtube.com/watch?v=i2N2fu…