Shanks (1974)

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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 instering 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. Movie Tagline: A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy. Title: Shanks Release Date: October 09, 1974 Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Fantasy All Genres: Fantasy, Horror Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 6.0 Brimstone Pit Rating: 7 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With S MPAA Rating: PG Director(s): William Castle Cast: Marcel Marceau ...Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker Tsilla Chelton ...Mrs. Barton Philippe Clay ...Mr. Barton Cindy Eilbacher ...Celia Larry Bishop ...Motorcycle Gang Member Don Calfa ...Motorcycle Gang Member Biff Manard ...Goliath Phil Adams ...Motorcycle Gang Member Helena Kallianiotes ...Mata Hari Read Morgan ...Cop Lara Wing ...Little Girl William Castle ...Grocer Mondo ...Genghis Khan Remaining Cast: Producer(s): William Castle Steven North Sheldon Schrager Writer(s): Ranald Graham Composer(s): Alex North More Movie Taglines: A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy. Deliciously Grotesque. Movie Trivia: William Castle's final film as a director. Never released on video or DVD (as of January 2010). 'Marcel Marceau' plays two parts. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Puppet, Puppeteer, Surrealism, Mime  ...[more] Keywords All: Seen it? Rate it Currently 7.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 7.0 out of 10.0 - 64 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST