

Movies Like Shanks
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.
Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

13 Ghosts

Puppet Master: The Legacy

Children of Paradise

Impetigore

Look Away

Dust Bunny

Silent Movie

The Mummy Resurrection

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge

Dark Harvest

Dummy

The Unhealer

Puppetmaster

Curse of the Puppet Master
How Good Is Shanks?
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