Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.
- Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt
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- WissenswertesAlex North used parts of his rejected score for 2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum (1968) for this film. For example, the main title music was originally composed for the space station phone call sequence of 2001, but here rearranged with a female vocalist added.
- PatzerAfter Mrs. Barton moves Celia's placemat, Malcolm cocks her body to her left. In the following shot, she's cocked to her right.
- Crazy CreditsRight before the closing credits roll, a quote from William Makepeace Thackeray is featured: "Let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."
- VerbindungenFeatured in Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
Ausgewählte Rezension
Incredibly weird and surreal
And that's not an exaggeration. I searched for this movie for a long time, and I'm glad I found it. Marcel Marceau plays Shanks, a deaf puppet maker, and Walker, an old scientist who has discovered the secret of reanimating the dead. He plays both beautifully, using his pantomime skills to achieve silent movie style acting. In fact, that's what this movie reminds me of - a silent fairy tale (the use of title cards to introduce scenes further suggests this), with a little George Romero thrown in! It's incredible that something this abstract and individualistic was made; I wish more movies would be as bold. The opening credits sequence, with tinted photos of kids watching Shanks' puppet show while the weird Oscar nominated (!) music plays is incredibly strange, memorable, and disturbing.
William Castle, of all people, directed. This movie shows, more than any other, that he was more than just the "King of Gimmicks". To see such an expressionistic and disturbing vision.......is to regret that this was his final film as director.
William Castle, of all people, directed. This movie shows, more than any other, that he was more than just the "King of Gimmicks". To see such an expressionistic and disturbing vision.......is to regret that this was his final film as director.
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- Sanguinaire
- 15. Okt. 2003
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