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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains the feature film plus the set's extras: audio commentary by Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw, the video essay 'No Words for the Dead: Reanimating William Castle, Visual Language and The Path to Shanks' by Daniel Kremer, the archival interview 'Marcel Marceau on Shanks', radio spots, and the TV spot. Malcolm Shanks, a deaf-mute puppeteer browbeaten by his sister and her drunken husband, finds his only happiness in his puppets. When the eccentric inventor Dr. Baker hires him as an assistant and then dies suddenly, Shanks discovers the doctor's electrode technique can reanimate corpses — and begins applying it himself. William Castle's final film blends quirky fantasy with character-driven horror in one of the strangest works of his career.

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Malcolm Shanks, a deaf-mute puppeteer browbeaten by his sister and her drunken husband, finds his only happiness in his puppets. When the eccentric inventor Dr. Baker hires him as an assistant and then dies suddenly, Shanks discovers the doctor's electrode technique can reanimate corpses — and begins applying it himself. William Castle's final film blends quirky fantasy with character-driven horror in one of the strangest works of his career.

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The Blu-ray disc of Vinegar Syndrome's 2-disc set contains Sweet Sixteen (1983) in both its original theatrical and international versions, newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative. In the small Texas town of Sun Valley, all the boys are going crazy for the new girl, Melissa. Beautiful and confident, and still a few days shy of her sixteenth birthday, she has caught the eye of men and boys alike. But things take a sinister turn when the boys she gets involved with start turning up dead, viciously stabbed in a series of seemingly frenzied knife attacks. It falls to Sheriff Dan Burke to investigate the perplexing rash of killings, aided by his eager, mystery-loving daughter Marci. With the townspeople eager to point the finger at the local Native American population, can Burke figure out why all the boys are quite literally dying to be with Melissa before even more blood is shed?

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In the small Texas town of Sun Valley, teenage newcomer Melissa — beautiful, self-assured, and only days away from turning sixteen — draws the attention of every boy and man in town. Then the boys who get close to her begin turning up murdered, stabbed in a string of frenzied attacks. Sheriff Dan Burke investigates, helped by his mystery-obsessed daughter Marci, while townspeople rush to blame the local Native American community. Burke must work out why the boys around Melissa keep dying before the killer strikes again.