Shanks (1974) — fantasy, horror film. Directed by William Castle. Starring Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher. This page maps 8 characters and 8 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
Shanks offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:
A grim fairy tale exploring grief, control, and the blurred line between reality and imagination through a mute puppeteer's necromantic experiments.
Fantasy, Horror · 5.2/10 · 93 min · 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.
Plot analysis generated from content on Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related entry on Wikidata (Q7488760), public domain (CC0).