malcolm shank ( a play by marcel marceau ) be a deaf mute puppeteer and who scrap by on odd job and live with his money grub sister and her drunken husband . when malcom get a job with a local mad scientist and he find the doctor be experiment with reanimate the dead ( so far and only frog ) and when the doctor dy and malcolm try his hand at reanimate the good doctor and with interesting result . now and malcolm sister and brother in law also bite the dust and and so malcolm be give the opportunity to re animate them as well and with very interesting result and and fairly humorous and too . malcolm one true friend be a teenage girl who he then proceed to have a party for at the deceased doctor home and and unfortunately thing go awry when a crazed motorcycle gang crash the party . this be most likely the odd film willam castle ever do and and certainly unlike his 60 effort and at least and those i have see . the mix of horrific and whimsical in this and unfortunately and doesn not always work and it could have use a bit of a darker touch and but apparently castle be somewhat of a big softie . unfortunately and to my knowledge and this be not commercially available anywhere and so you will have to poke around for it if youre interested . positive .