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Original title: Puppet Master

Video
19891989
K-16K-16
1h 30m

Fantasy Horror Sci-Fi

Psychics find themselves plotted against by a former colleague, who committed suicide after discovering animated, murderous puppets.Psychics find themselves plotted against by a former colleague, who committed suicide after discovering animated, murderous puppets.Psychics find themselves plotted against by a former colleague, who committed suicide after discovering animated, murderous puppets.

5.6/10

10K

Director
- David Schmoeller
Writers
- Charles Band(story)
- Kenneth J. Hall(story)
- David Schmoeller(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Trailer 2:57

Puppet Master

Robin Frates, William Hickey, Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Matt Roe, and Jimmie F. Skaggs in Puppet Master (1989)

Director
- David Schmoeller
Writers
- Charles Band(story)
- Kenneth J. Hall(story)
- David Schmoeller(screenplay)
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Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon's puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon's puppets who have a variety of strange traits including a drill for a head and the ability to spit up leeches. —Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>

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Taglines
- Killers Come in All Sizes
Genres
Certificate
- K-16
Parents guide

Trivia
Leech Woman's mouth is made of foam latex, which makes the mouth appear to be more flexible whenever Leech Woman "coughs" up a leech. Only three quarters of the leech mechanism comes out of the puppet, and then a simple camera cut creates the illusion that an entire leech comes out of Leech Woman's mouth.

Goofs
In the beginning, when the puppet Blade is racing around the Bodega Bay Inn grounds, he runs over to a pulled up car. When the door opens and the two Nazi assassins walk out, you can see three crew members in the car door window reflection; two of them are down on their knees operating the camera in place of Blade's bird's eye vision, while the third is standing on the grass watching over.

Quotes
Frank Forrester: Just a little bit of sauce and Dana can become quite the cynic.
Dana Hadley: I am not a cynic, Frank! I like to think of myself as a nasty bitch.

Alternate versions
The 1989 UK video version was cut by 3 secs by the BBFC to remove brief shots of a woman's breasts during the fantasy assault scene in the elevator. The shots were also missing from the Film 2000 DVD which featured the R-rated print.

Connections
Edited into When Puppets and Dolls Attack! (2004)

Soundtracks
La Chorrito
by Pechula Chuppa

Top review

4/10

How can such a weak film spawn so many sequels?

This flick has developed quite a reputation as being a minor "cult classic", but actually it's not very good. Not very good at all. The story is shallow (I hear that it's further developed in the sequels, but that doesn't mean much for the viewers of this particular film), the characters are mostly uninteresting or unlikable, and the special effects, though cleverly conceived at times, show their age (already). There is also not much gore and not much suspense. (*1/2)

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