Retro Puppet Master (1999) (V)

Director:

David DeCoteau

Writers:

Charles Band (story)
Benjamin Carr (screenplay)

Release Date:

November 2005 (France)

Genre:

Adventure | Romance | Fantasy | Horror

Tagline:

The Legacy Begins...

Plot:

It's 1892 and Sutekh is hopping mad. It seems a 3,000 year old Egyptian sorcerer has stolen one of the God's secrets of life...

Plot Keywords:

Sorcerer | Puppet | Puppeteer | Murder | Death

Cast

Greg Sestero	...	Andre Toulon
Brigitta Dau	...	Ilsa
Stephen Blackehart	...	First Servant
Jack Donner	...	Afzel
Guy Rolfe	...	Older Andre Toulon
Robert Radoveanu	...	Second Servant
Vitalie Bantas	...	Third Servant
Sando Teodor	...	Latour
George Calin	...	Valentin
Juliano Doman	...	Vigo
Vlad Dulea	...	Duval
Dan Fintescu	...	Beggar
Serban Celea	...	Father
Elvira Deatcu	...	Margarette (as Elvira Deatce)
Claudiu Trandafir	...	Leader

Also Known As:

Puppet Master 7 (USA) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for horror violence.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Germany:12 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Kushner-Locke Company, The

Trivia:

Originally supposed to take place just after Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991) (V), with Toulon and his "friends" on a train bound for someplace other than Germany and encountering a variety of Nazis and demonic foes. This script, by Matthew Jason Walsh, was thrown out by Kushner-Locke because it "would offend the German audience".

Goofs:

Continuity: Puppetmaster (1989) (V) showed that Andre Toulon committed suicide in 1939. This movie is set in 1944. Andre Toulon gives a flashback of the back. However, he is already dead and cannot do this.

Quotes:

Ilsa: The old man...
Andre Toulon: Well?
Duval: [straightforward] If he wakes in the next hour, he should recover. If he doesn't, he probably won't.
Ilsa: But, why would anyone want to kill him?
Andre Toulon: Ah...
[at a loss for words]
Duval: Some men don't need a reason.
[shakes head then walks off]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Puppet Master: The Legacy (2004) (V)

Puppet Laster

David DeCoteau directed 'Curse of the Puppet Master' (the sixth Puppet Master movie) as Victoria Sloan and here directs the seventh as Joseph Tennent. Not sure why a director of some of the most ridiculous movies ever made would replace their name on their more credible work but there we go. This seventh instalment is well made and excellently acted with the last actual performance of Guy Rolfe, not just as Andre Toulon, but ever. Rolfe is without doubt one of the world's greatest actors and as Andre Toulon the most fantastical performer of Full Moon Productions' entire catalogue. This film travels back to early 20th century Paris to find the origins of the Puppets, there are a few extra puppets here that - as yet unexplained - do not appear in other films. Our favourites here, such as Pinhead; Torch and Tunneler are more traditional wooden puppets, not yet fully developed and very low on personality and colour - their oak finish makes them seem far more sinister though. For the first time Richard Band's amazing Puppet theme does not appear and is ultimately the only major error of judgement in a fun and fantastically produced addition to the series. Watch the dead homeless man on the steps though (who first gives his 'life' to the puppets) - though dead and looking almost like a puppet himself he can't help blinking in full camera shot. The film is old fashioned and almost Sunday afternoon family fun (like an old detective drama or something). Surprising.