Puppet Master is an early direct to video Full Moon production and is a story about a group of psychics gathered at the impressive Bodega Bay Hotel. They are investigating rumours that the secret of life had been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. Toulon had created a bunch of killer puppets called Tunneler, Leech Woman, Pin Head, Blade and Jester, they soon start knocking off the guests in grisly fashions. I'm afraid that I found this film rather boring and overall the acting is quite wooden, we even get a "corpse" who can clearly be seen blinking! Scream Queen Barbara Crampton appears but sadly only in a cameo, thankfully Kathryn O'Reilly as sexual psychic Carissa does raise the temperature in the bedroom. I bought a German blu-ray release, sold as being "100% uncut", sadly I was conned. It uses the same heavily cut Rated print that seems to be used for virtually all releases. For completeness the UK VHS offers the best choice but come on all you distributors, we really deserve a nice Unrated release. The puppets themselves are by the best thing about this movie, the kills are gory and imaginative but sadly trimmed of their full gory glory.
Review of Puppet Master
