Shanks (1974)

Review: Shanks (1974)

Director: William Castle

Cast: Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Biff Manard,

Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau
Tsilla Chelton
Tsilla Chelton
Philippe Clay
Philippe Clay
Cindy Eilbacher
Cindy Eilbacher
Biff Manard
Biff Manard

Plot: 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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Late Summer Viewing, part 2

Late Summer Viewing, part 2

I’ve mentioned the boutique label Twilight Time before; they continue to release an interestingly eclectic series of limited edition Blu-rays (3000 copies of each title), with their specialty being a focus on the films’ soundtracks […]

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