Movie

Shanks

“A new concept in the macabre in which the Good come out of the grave and the Evil are sent to fill the vacancy.”

★ 5.2(22)19741h 33m

Shanks is available to rent or buy on Amazon Video in Denmark. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 14 June 2026.

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Director: William Castle
Release date: 1974-10-09
Runtime: 1h 33m
Language: English
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Shanks — trailer

About Shanks

Shanks is a 1974 movie in the Fantasy and Horror genres, directed by William Castle, starring Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton and Philippe Clay. It has a runtime of 1 hour 33 minutes. It holds an average rating of 5.2/10 from 22 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Shanks in Denmark — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

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.