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Shanks (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.

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Brian C 03 Nov 2016

I have mixed feelings about Shanks. It was quite innovative and quite daring to have a movie centered around so many non-speaking mimes. Marcel Marceau plays the titular characters who is a mime and makes human dolls out of corpses using electronics wizardry. Marceau is really quite wonderful. His expressions are creepy and off-putting, yet there is a childish playfulness to it. The characters of the brother and sister were really good, and they were amazing as the reanimated doll corpses. They really looked and moved like a marionette would! The bikers however, were extremely bad. From their really bad dialog and acting they didn't even feel like real people. So there were some major faults in this film, but so many wonderful parts and subtle comedic moments.

Evan W 13 Mar 2010

One of the weirdest films I have ever seen, and that's saying something. An odd near-silent fable about a puppeteer taught to animate the dead, William Castle's last film as a director is strange, slow-moving, and doesn't always make sense, but is still pretty jaw-dropping.

Christopher S 26 Mar 2010

Now this is a strange film. Directed by William Castle (his last), it's really just a vehicle for legendary mime Marcel Marceau's odd talents. It's really the excellent and atmospheric score by Alex North that carries this nearly silent gothic fairy tale. The production values are uneven, and it's slow-paced and overlong, but an interesting and original oddity for cult movie fans.

Leo K 22 Aug 2007

A truly brilliant acting performance in an awful movie. A guilty pleasure!

Jacob F 02 Aug 2010

Castle's final film is one of the most bizarre; not so much in its fairy tale-esque maccabre but rather in it's distant yet bi-polar tone. There are some awesome near experimental sequences and what the film is trying to do, make a mime-based neo-silent film is commendable, but worth only a glancing look by the most devoted of horror buffs. There's hardly a story and what is there doesn't merit a feature film, and after a while the film feels laborious and repetitive.