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Shanks

Shanks

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 9, 1974

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Fantasy, Horror

User Score

51%

Original Title

Shanks

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures, William Castle Productions

Director

William Castle

Description

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.