Shanks

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thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas de terror são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/27/25 Full Review Chris O This is the best movie ever made. Too many negative reviews on here. If you like that sweet spot between bizarre/weird and horror than this is for you. Not super gory but chilling, spooky, and campy, like all William Castle movies. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/12/24 Full Review dave s Over the last fifteen or so years of his career, director William Castle was responsible for some odd films, ranging in quality from mediocre to poor. However, none were odder or crappier than his final directorial effort, 1974's Shanks. Mime Marcel Marceau plays Malcolm Shanks, a deaf puppeteer who, under the tutelage of a mad scientist (also played by Marceau) learns how to reanimate the dead. Thanks to some bad acting, an absurd story, and a score that seems to try to make a comedy out of what may have been intended as some sort of horror fantasy, Shanks is painful to watch from the get go, pretty much bereft of any sort of redeeming values. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member After apprenticing to a reclusive scientist, a deaf-mute puppeteer learns how to move corpses using electrodes operated by remote control. William Castle (!) directs Marcel Marceau (!) in this "grim fairy tale" mixing black comedy with pantomime slapstick and silent film aesthetics with an exploitation movie plot to create a movie like nothing else out there. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Odd, intriguing, grotesque, and sometimes tedious--Castle's uneven final film!! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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