FEATURE FILM

Shanks

5.2/10
TMDB22 votes
Original: 93 min

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

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About Shanks

A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy.

Shanks (1974) is a film in the fantasy, horror genres. Directed by . The cast includes Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher.

Released
Original language
Runtime
93 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America
Production companies
Paramount Pictures, William Castle Productions
Writers
Ranald Graham

Shanks cast & characters

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What is Shanks about?

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

Who stars in Shanks?

Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Biff Manard, Helena Kallianiotes. See the cast cards above for character names.

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