Shanks

Oct. 09, 1974

01:33:00

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Genres: Fantasy, Horror

Overview:

Malcolm the deaf-mute Shanks lives with his cruel sister and her husband, who like every possible way to spoil his already bad life. The only joy Shanks — puppets, which he does first-class tinkering. With this his talent to Shanks even managed to get in an assistant to Professor Walker, obsessed with the idea of reviving corpses. Walker’s methodology is simple and consists in passing on key neural nodes of the body electrical impulses, making the corpse move like a puppet.

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.

Director: William Castle Sheldon Schrager

Writer: Ranald Graham

Cast: Larry Bishop Read Morgan William Castle Phil Adams Marcel Marceau Don Calfa Cindy Eilbacher Tsilla Chelton Philippe Clay Biff Manard Helena Kallianiotes

Genres: Fantasy Horror

Jogando com a Vida e a Morte, A bábmester, Shanks (original title)