马尔科姆·沙克斯是一个悲伤而孤独的人,他是聋哑人,他和他冷酷的姐姐和她丈夫生活在一起,他们喜欢让他痛苦。看来,他唯一的乐趣就是制作和控制木偶。多亏了他的技术,他得到了沃克博士的实验室助理的工作。沃克博士正在研究如何通过在关键的神经点上的电极上的电极来重新激活死尸,并像在线上一样操纵尸体。当教授突然去世的时候,Shanks想到把实验的结果应用到人体上的想法,然后开始实施他的报复。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 instering 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.