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.
Shanks has generally received mixed reviews.
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Shanks was released in 1974 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 13 reviews, giving Shanks (1974) an average rating of 46%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 55%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Shanks a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 46%, Shanks is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1974, which stands at 60%.
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