Shanks

IMDb 4.9 1974 • 93 min • FantasyHorror

Director

William Castle

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker
Tsilla Chelton
Tsilla Chelton Mrs. Barton
Philippe Clay
Philippe Clay Mr. Barton
Cindy Eilbacher
Cindy Eilbacher Celia
Biff Manard
Biff Manard Goliath