"A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy."09 October 1974Fantasy, Horror93 mins
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.
A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascinated by Andre Toulon's supernatural ability to breathe life into his carefully crafted figurines.
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
A dimension-shifting mime player is disturbed in his peace by a student fraternity. His response is unexpected: by using the fourth wall, he turns their world on its head; literally.
Bilingual film study from the Baylor Theatre in Texas. French mime Étienne Decroux is shown performing various routines, including man of sport (l'homme de sport), mobile statuary (la statuaire mobile), man of the drawing room (l'homme de salon) and illusionism (l'illusionnisme).
When a man's vehicle breaks down on a lonely road at night, a mysterious mime emerges from the shadows to silently save the day but nothing is as it seems.
Mr Plastimime is a funny and moving story about a man who faithfully practices a dying art, a man whose timing is a bit off, a man whose skills aren’t recognized, a man who is unlucky in love; But this is a man who keeps moving forward, faithfully believing he will one day be finally ‘seen’.
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Shanks (1974) Trailer
This is the television trailer for the 1974 horror film Shanks directed by William Castle.
Shanks (1974) Fair Use Clip
Brief clip from "Shanks" William Castle's oddball 1974 fairytale about a mute puppeteer who learns to reanimate corpses starring Marcel Marceau.
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31 Days Of Horror: Shanks (1974) - Day 14
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