Wonderful Movie

Boring

Absolutely brilliant

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Puppet Master is a fun and entertaining film... when the puppets are actually on screen. The human characters are less than engaging and the plot is ridiculous. Still, the scenes in which the puppets interact with the human characters help to make up for the slow paced plot and uninspired story. Each puppet is unique in movement, ability and even personality. The climax of the film is just amazing and makes this extremely long hour and a half journey worth it. Charles Band is the master of writing inanimate objects, coming to life and killing people, and David Schmoeller managed to perfectly bring Band's vision to life. While not a perfect film, Puppet master definitely deserves it's cult classic status due to it's unique style and brutal death scenes.

Receiving a message from their dead friend, a group of psychics arrive at a deserted hotel for his funeral find themselves struggling to stay alive when a group of puppets he brought to life are killing them off one-by-one and must find a way to stop him.For the most part this was an enjoyable if slightly problematic effort at times. The most impressive feature here is obviously the special effects used for the puppets as they all seem to move and look quite realistically, regardless of the creation method being obviously stop-motion. It's almost impossible to see strings used to move them, and this makes them appear quite lifelike. The attention to detail in their personality is also quite refreshing to see, and each one is quite distinctive from the others through a wide range of different techniques with a specific personality that comes across quite easily. Also nice to see was that all of the puppets seem to share equal screen time and each one gets to cause some serious havoc in their own right as all of them are capable for at least one death, which is a rather nice idea. Another good point is that the few attacks are well- handled, starting with the scene where a character is blindfolded and bound in bed, thinking their companion is sexually stimulating them when it's one of the dolls vomiting forth leeches which burrow into the skin. There's a standout sequence where one character is attacked in the elevator, overcomes it only to find a second doll coming after her which chases them and eventually tries to break in providing some decent shocks. Along with the great finale that gets the retribution down nicely, there's some fun here when it had to be though there was a lot to be left desired. The biggest one is that the film takes too long to really get going and when it does, it doesn't really deliver as expected since there's little else on show. There is a long time before the rampage starts, but they come very late in the movie where so much of this is spent on other areas that hold this part of the film back considerably in other issues as the group wandering around the hotel and how they keep themselves busy waiting for the funeral to get started. The motivation behind the villain is also kind of weird, as he could have resurrected himself quietly and no one would have been none the wiser trying to figure out how he could've performed the rite on himself. It's also the source of a big continuity error that is very hard to shake off. Since the magic only affects non-living tissue, then he couldn't have performed it prior to his own suicide. And obviously he couldn't have performed the Rite after he was already dead, yet it's never explained how that transpired. While it's not quite the masterpiece that many say it is, it has enough moments where a great film is trying to come through to make it watchable enough.Rated R: Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language, Sexual Content, a mild Rape and themes of S&M.

Half a century after puppet master Andre Toulon kills himself in a hotel rather than the prospect of his serum that gives life to inanimate objects falls into the hands of evil Nazis, a group of physics are invited to the aforementioned hotel where they're victimized by animate puppets.This is the film that put Full Moon on the map and for good reason. it had a fair amount of suspense, the puppets were are interesting (my favorite being Tunneler, which I've since procured a replica of, but i digress) and i found it to be a fun little cheapie horror film. One of the main gripes that i've heard about it throughout the years is that it's needlessly slow which i didn't find to be the case that badly, even though it does plod at times.Eye Candy: Kathryn O'Reilly provides the T&A quotient

Puppetmaster Andre Toulon (William Hickey) was hunted by Nazis and shot himself at the Bodega Bay Inn 50 years ago. Present day Neil Gallagher invites his psychic friends Alex Whitaker, Dana Hadley, Frank Forrester and Carissa Stamford to the Bodega Bay Inn but they find Neil had already killed himself.It's too bad that the great William Hickey is dead in the first 10 minutes. This movie badly needs great actors. The acting in this is stiff and uncompelling. The production value never rises above B-movie level. The best thing about the entire movie is the great campy puppets. They are amazzzing.