Don Shanks Movies

A boy witnesses his mother kissing what he believes to be is the real Santa Clause and retaliates with mischief.

Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.

Five friends play a game in a "mysterious" forest with a long history as a beacon for troubled young people contemplating suicide.

Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls...

Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.

Maverick downhill racer, Tyler Crowe, reunites with best friend and renegade snowboarder, Mark Rider. It doesn't take long for the old friends to...

In the 1850's, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine...

Calvin Wheeler is a scheming 13-year-old boy with everything going for him, except for an original issue of his precious comic book collection. When...

In 1861, miner Galen Clark learns he has consumption and decides to travel west in his final months. During the journey, he meets naturalist John...

Five horror icons ditch an unprofitable autograph signing convention to earn some extra cash haunting an RV park, but find themselves being haunted...

The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.

Syd Jarrett is an unsuspecting, down-and-out man in a washed-up hick town who gets pulled into a sub-culture of blood-hungry creatures. He encounters...

Paul Hegstrom is a so-called family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his...

Patchwork movie edited from episodes from the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977).

ButterCreamer Eldon finds part of an ancient map and becomes intrigued with the search for hidden treasure. Unaware that danger lurks in the shadows,...

A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.

A 19th-century New Englander becomes a mountain man friendly with an Indian and a bear.

Three children are kidnapped and taken to the forest by escaped convicts. There they escape but are pursued by the convicts. Forest rangers and...

The true story of one man's struggle to make the wilderness his home and the animals his friends.

Nine-year-old Max Anderson has a big problem: he knows about an evil plot to kill the president, and no one believes him. Adults don’t usually...