Where to Watch Shanks (1974) Online

Yearning to watch 'Shanks' on your TV or mobile device at home? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the William Castle-directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Shanks' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'Shanks' right now, here are some specifics about the Paramount Pictures, William Castle Productions horror flick.

Released October 9th, 1974, 'Shanks' stars Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 33 min, and received a user score of 49 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 19 well-known users.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, and YouTube .