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SHANKS

1974 US HMDB
October 9, 1974

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.

Cast

Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Biff Manard, Helena Kallianiotes, Larry Bishop, Don Calfa, Phil Adams, Read Morgan
Fantasy Horror

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A puppeteer resurrects his master, a scientist who could bring the dead back to life through electric shocks. The same actor, the famous mime Marcel Marceau, plays both the puppeteer and the scientist. The film is more valuable from a "historical" perspective than for its actual quality. In the horror movie genre, Castle has definitely done much better.